Fine Art Painting and Drawing BA Welcome Pack
Welcome to Fine Art Painting and Drawing BA 2023.
Hello to our new year 1 students,
We have prepared a series of exciting projects in year 1 designed to explore the seemingly limitless possibilities of painting and drawing which will increase the knowledge, options and choices open to you. In the first teaching week you are given your own studio spaces and will begin working alongside others equally excited by art. You will be amazed by how far and how quickly your own work and the work of others will progress over the course of your degree. The road of creativity is not always smooth but if a problem occurs no matter how small or how serious, remember you have a committed team of academic staff who will be there to help you.
We would like to invite you to join our online Q&A session for a brief meeting to answer any questions may have regarding the weeks ahead. Please can you send a courtesy email to both michael.evans@northampton.ac.uk and stefan.gant@northampton.ac.uk prior to the enrolment week so that we can return course related information to you which will include the first year timetable. This is sent to you during the enrolment week period.
There will be a week of introductory sessions and tours on the week beginning 18 September.
The first teaching session will take place on Monday 25 September, starting at 9.30am in the painting and drawing studios, Development Hub Building, room DH030. Staff will be on hand to welcome you at the building entrance.
This specialist Painting & Drawing degree offers you the chance to focus on painting and drawing in equal measure or as single disciplines as the course progresses. You will also be introduced to printmaking which can be used both in combination with painting and drawing or as a single discipline.
You will be able to study and explore contemporary approaches to painting and drawing in a lively and intellectually challenging atmosphere providing a breadth and depth of experience which is not possible on a multi-disciplinary fine art course.
The structure of BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting & Drawing is designed to introduce you to a wide variety of new ideas, techniques and processes and to offer you a wide-ranging expansion of the possibilities of both painting and drawing.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Dr Michael Evans and Stefan Gant
Your Programme Leader
Dr Michael Evans
Programme Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting and Drawing and Senior Lecturer in Painting
Michael.evans@northampton.ac.uk
Welcome and Induction Sessions
To welcome you to Fine Art, Painting and Drawing – here are the online and in-person sessions
Equipment
Materials List (Drawing)
- White A1 cartridge paper (can be purchased from UON art shop, Waterside Campus)
- Range of good quality drawing pencils: Brands include Faber and Castell, Derwent and Staedtler (2B – 9B)
- Pencil Wrap (Derwent sold at UON art shop)
- X2 Packs of Charcoal, various thicknesses Compressed charcoal
- Black/ white chalk
- Black ink
- Mars Plastic Staedtler Rubber
- Masking tape x2 Rolls
- Fixative/hairspray (un-perfumed/ extra firm hold)
- Sketchbook (A4 or square) Minimum of 3 for drawing module A1 portfolio
- Craft Knife
- Tool Box for materials (Essential)
- Pen Stick (4-8GB) or external hard drive
- Hammer
- Combination lock (for tool box)
- Combination lock (for studio locker)
Materials List (Painting)
Titanium white oil paints can be bought from our art shop at UON on arrival. In the first year, the course provides a range of colours listed below for initial workshops and briefs. Please bring what you already have (oil paint and painting kit) and a white or near white floor tile to use as a palette – Approximately 30cm x 30cm.
Daler Rowney, Georgian Oil Paint, introduced to students (UON art shop).
- Vermilion (Hue)
- Cadmium red
- Cadmium red deep
- Scarlet Lake
- Alizarin crimson
- Cadmium yellow hue
- Cadmium yellow deep
- Lemon yellow
- Yellow ochre
- Naples yellow
- Ultramarine blue
- Cerulean blue
- Prussian blue
- Viridian green
- Sap green
- Van dyke brown
- Burnt sienna
- Paynes grey
- Titanium white
Please wait to speak to Michael Evans before purchasing the oil colours above as we provide many of them for workshops
Do pre-purchase the three items below if possible :
- Genuine Turpentine (Not turps substitute)
- Purified Linseed Oil small
- Low Odour White Spirit
Paint Brushes
- Brand: Graduate / 3 sizes of flat brushes (UON art shop)
Other items
- Glass jars with a lid.
- Wear clothes that are older that you don’t mind getting paint on.
- Bring in some rags (for turps and white spirit).
Enhancing skills, building networks and engaging in the wider University community
International study trips have included destinations such as Venice Biennale, New York, Berlin and Paris (international study trips are optional).
In addition, there may be study trips to London and exhibitions, such as the John Moores Painting Prize (Liverpool).