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Welcome to Year 13 Painting
Welcome to Year 13 Painting
Year 13 Painting is an intensive, studio-based journey (Haerenga) designed for students ready to transition from learners to practitioners. This year, you will move beyond simply "making art" to conducting a sustained visual inquiry. You will establish a sophisticated personal style by navigating the tension between your chosen subject matter and the physical possibilities of paint.
Students undertaking External AS91456 (3.4 - Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas within painting practice) will be expected to commit a certain amount of time outside of class hours as the standards require them to be undertaking a large ongoing body of work.
Expectations & Excellence
Expectations & Excellence
It is expected that you enter this course with a foundation of fluency in drawing and painting. While we provide the tools to expand your technical vocabulary, the focus of Level 13 is on critical thinking and stylistic autonomy. To achieve at the highest levels of NCEA Level 3, you must commit to a sustained practice both inside and outside the studio. Your folio is a living document of your growth—a visual record of your personal Haerenga from the first mark to the final panel.
"Art is not a destination, but a way of traveling."
The Course Philosophy: Te Ara o te Toi
The Course Philosophy: Te Ara o te Toi
This course is structured as a progressive journey in three distinct phases:
TūhuraThe Material Exploration (Weeks 1–7)
TūhuraThe Material Exploration (Weeks 1–7)
We begin with an "Alchemical" approach to painting. You will engage in weekly high-stakes workshops inspired by contemporary artist models—from the fluid, geological pours of Kate Shaw to the structured, geometric fragments of Stefaan De Crook. You will learn to treat paint as a physical substance—scraping, glazing, layering, and eroding—to discover how materiality can give voice to your subject matter.
Kaupapa & Waihanga: Constructing the Inquiry (Term 1 Week 9 & 10 + term 2 week 1 & 2)
Kaupapa & Waihanga: Constructing the Inquiry (Term 1 Week 9 & 10 + term 2 week 1 & 2)
A Level 3 Folio is more than a collection of pictures; it is a systematic investigation. In this phase, you engage in Waihanga—the purposeful act of making and constructing meaning.
You will define your Kaupapa (theme).
Through Waihanga, you will "build" a visual language that merges your material experiments with your research.
You will develop an inquiry question that offers multiple "angles" for exploration, ensuring your work has the depth to sustain three panels.
Generate ideas through adventurous drawing and material play.
The Kōpaki Toi (The Folio Production)
The Kōpaki Toi (The Folio Production)
The culmination of your year is the production of a three-panel body of work (AS91456). You will produce a series of 15–18 works that demonstrate a "journey of ideas." You will learn to:
Regenerate your practice by taking successful moments from one work and evolving them into the next.
Resolve a portfolio that reflects a sophisticated mastery of painting conventions.
Achievement Standards:
Achievement Standards:
This year's programme is made up of three achievement standards + Scholarship
This year's programme is made up of three achievement standards + Scholarship
• INTERNAL assessment- assignments carried out during the year that are marked by your teacher and moderated within the department. •DRAFT ASSESSMENT will be ongoing throughout the year, and will consist of valuable teacher feedback, checkpoints and discussion about work and layouts. In these your teacher will give you an indication of your progress towards standards based on the work completed so far. You must meet these draft assessment dates to ensure you are on track for success!
Achievement standard AS91446 INTERNAL 4 credits
3.2 Use drawing to demonstrate understanding of conventions appropriate to painting.
Due date: Term 3
Learning outcomes
[Resolved works and Visual Diary/digital workbook]
Selecting and using art-making processes procedures and materials to explore techniques and conventions to achieve outcomes related to kaupapa and artist models.
Drawing refers to the use of media, techniques, and processes to arrange elements (eg line, shape, space, colour, tone, point, texture, form, mass) and principles (eg balance, harmony, rhythm, tension, contrast) to inform artwork. This may include drawing notes, sketches, monochromatic and colour studies, collage, and painting
Achievement standard AS91451 INTERNAL 4 credits
3.3 Systematically clarify ideas using drawing informed by established painting practice.
Due date: term 3
Learning outcomes
[Visual Diary/digital workbook]
This standard involves critically analysing, evaluating, and revisiting concepts, subject matter, problems, or situations from the student’s previous artwork to re-form and extend ideas into new artworks informed by established practice.
This standard shows an ongoing decision-making process that enables a continuum to be established and maintained. Aspects of drawing are also identifiable in finished work.
Achievement standard AS91456 EXTERNAL 14 credits
3.4 Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas within painting practice
Due date: Term 4
Learning outcomes
Complete a three-board individual folio that is well-painted, original, and conceptual.
This involves bringing together critically selected ideas and methods from different sources to integrate the conventions and to critically revisit and refine ideas from previous work to re-form and provide options for the extension of ideas into new work within your kaupapa.
Scholarship AS 93306 [external]
Scholarship is an 8-page workbook of ideas, planning and exploration that supports the work on the folio. It is submitted around the same time as Folios
SETTING UP YOUR MOOD BOARD/ARTIST MODELS
SETTING UP YOUR MOOD BOARD/ARTIST MODELS
As a senior art student, it is important to be prepared to research art, artist models and visual ideas independently. Your teacher has a Pinterest page and a padlet where you can find 1000's of artists to explore. You are expected to have your own Pinterest or padlet page to save imagery to.
We also have an art library which is accessible, beside c17, and is for Level 3 students to use/borrow books from.
Digital Device success
Digital Device success
no apps are Paid for ones - only install free versions
A lot of work we do is photographed and uploaded to digital platforms. To make this easier there are some apps that you should install on your phone. Make sure all of these are logged in with your school email
Google Classroom
Google Drive
Padlet
ADOBE photoshop mobile or adobe fresco
Go Art [Iphone]
Grid# [iPhone]/Art tools [iPhone] or Grid Maker for Drawing [android]
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