KAUPAPA:

Students who participate satisfactorily in this course will improve in their ability to:-

• Understanding the visual arts in context

  • Share ideas about how and why their own and others’ works are made and their purpose, value, and context.

• Developing practical knowledge

  • Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles.

• Developing ideas

  • Investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination.

• Communicating and interpreting

  • Share the ideas, feelings, and stories communicated by their own and others’ objects and images.

PREREQUISITES:    

• None

COURSE CONTENT:

• Observational drawing using a range of mediums

• Develop painting skills and techniques

• Recognise artist models work and genres

• Produce small scale sculptures related to previous drawings

• Create workbook pages showing a development of ideas

• Present a finished body of art works (single A1 folio panel)

COSTS:

• Students will be charged $50 which covers an A3 workbook, individual paint set and brushes.

FUTURE STUDIES / CAREER OPTIONS:

• Many of our past art and photography students have gone on to study at Massey University in Wellington. 

• Industrial designers, Graphic artists, photographers, spatial designers. 

• Architecture at University or Polytechnic

PATHWAYS @ JMC:

• Year 10 Art

• NCEA: Year 11 Art 

• NCEA: Year 12 Photography OR Painting     

• IBDP: Year 12 Visual Art

• NCEA: Year 13 Photography OR Painting       

• IBDP: Year 13 Visual Art