Level 2 Visual Arts

Course Description 

Level 2 Art students extend technical art-making skills and critique learned at Level 1 to develop their own creative project within Drawing and Painting/Digital Painting. There is also an option for students to specialise in Printmaking or Sculpture within this class. Students will research and be introduced to a range of relevant artists' approaches, learning ways in which they can apply these ideas to their own art, driving the development of an idea within a chosen theme. Teaching of technical skills is individualised to students’ likes and needs within their portfolio development. Emphasis is placed on independent ways of working, critique, idea development and creative problem-solving. Students will feel confident to take risks in their design work, embrace failures, and see them as opportunities to problem-solve.

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 to their own work and creative processes.

Topics covered: Drawing as a diverse practice across a range of mediums and processes - Individual student proposals - Analysis - Painting, digital painting or printmaking techniques (relevant to student's proposals) - developing work in a sequence for a finished folio of work
Developing Skills In: practical art making, creative thinking, analysis, problem solving, innovation, self-management, self-confidence, independence, critical thinking, flexibility, and resilience.

Recommendations for subject entry
ART100 or in consultation with the classroom teacher

Assessment
2x Internals (8 credits) 1x External (12 credits) = 20 credits

2 Internals + 1 External 2 board Folio

A course endorsement will be available to students who attain Merit or Excellence grades for 14 or more credits, with at least one external assessment at Merit or Excellence.

Research-based and Finished Project standards are also available for students wanting to expand upon their critical, contextual and presentation skills or gain extra credits.

Next steps
Level 3 Painting/Printmaking and/or Photography.

Career paths
Level 2 Art prepares students for many and varied creative career paths: Fine Arts, Commercial Art, Design, FX, 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 $43 towards the cost of a comprehensive art pack to be used in class. At the end of the year, students are free to keep the remaining supplies.