Level 1 Visual Arts

Course Description 

In Level 1 Visual Art, students will learn important technical and conceptual skills. These include visual research and planning skills, idea generation, and creative thinking processes for their own art-making. Modes include drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and/or sculpture. Individual proposals and the development of a personal style are highly encouraged. We aim to foster independent and confident learners. The art room is a place where imagination and personal culture are valued and resilience and a life-long love of art-making are fostered.

We usually go on an art trip to a gallery during the year. This is an opportunity for boys to experience art in a gallery context which they can then relate back to their own work and creative process.

Topics covered: Creative processes and developing ideas with initial research through to finished artwork - Critique; appropriate use of correct art terminology - Technical exploration across drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking - Finished artwork
Developing Skills In: Practical art making, Problem solving, Critical Thinking and analysis, Idea development

Recommendations for subject entry 

Open to all students interested in making Art.
At Level 1 Students can only choose Visual Art OR Design - not both.

Assessment

• Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions - Internal - 5 Credits

• Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making - External - 5 Credits

• Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition - External - 5 Credits

Next steps

Level 2 Art and/or Photography

Career paths
Level 1 Art prepares students on the road to many varied creative career paths: Fine Arts, Commercial Art, Design, Photography, Animation and Film, Gallery and Museum Curator, Advertising, Architecture, Education and more. It also teaches students many transferable soft skills valued in the ever changing workplace.

Course contributions

Students are asked to contribute $38 towards the cost of a comprehensive art pack to be used in class.