YPG Creative Arts Portfolio Development

YPG Creative Arts Portfolio Development

(SCQF level 4)

Part-time, Design

Course Options
No course offerings available at the moment.

Overview

This course supports you to develop a portfolio and further your ideas and experiments for your own art portfolio: building creative skills in observation, researching and presenting artwork to suit your chosen route or purpose. 

Led by a Fine Art lecturer, sessions will be tailored to support you in utilising a range of materials and processes through workshops and briefs across the week, including developing techniques through drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. You will develop a creative understanding and playful approach to techniques and subject matter to support future applications to art courses.

Course Dates

This FREE course runs for three days on Mon 24 to Weds 26 July from 9am - 4pm. 

What you study
  • What is a portfolio and its application?
  • Methods to explore concepts/ideas and to create artworks to a theme. 
  • Ways of developing and contextualising ideas.
  • Building skills in media handling and expanding insight into a range of creative techniques.
  • Documenting works and presenting ideas through experimental forms.
  • Reflecting, responding, exchanging and collaborating. 

How the course is taught

All sessions will have a practical hands on approach and will run in our well-equipped art studios.