YEAR LEVELS

SEE BELOW HOW ART PROGRESSES THROUGH THE YEAR LEVELS.

The left side focus is digital. The right side focus is traditional

11 Design & Photography

Select from a range of design briefs and develop a range of imaginative and inspirational design solutions. The brief to choose from include: graphic design, advertising; fashion and architecture.

This is an introductory course for students interested in Photography and/or Design. You will learn to use a camera, along with learning Photoshop, Illustration and InDesign programmes to enable you to manipulate images and develop design ideas. You will learn to use the design process in order to enrich your creativity. There are options if you are taking two lines of Art at Year 11, to complete a Level 2 Printmaking or Sculpture folio in this option.

11 Visual Art

Take items from the world around us and make them into amazing art works. A practical art course where you will explore and build skills through various art disciplines including: painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Throughout the year you will learn a range of skills using various wet and dry media including: pencil, pen, pastel, collage, paint and ink. From these skills you will combine them to create a theme-based folio board that interests you. The skills you learn will allow you to do well in the Year 12 and 13 Art Programmes of Fine Art (Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture), Photography and Design.


Demonstrate your creativity through this course. You will select a brief and explore design ideas and solutions to fulfill the underlying intentions of the brief. You will look to gain inspiration from a range of sources and designers and explore a range of media including digital and traditional forms to help aid the creative process.You will learn to use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to design publicity for a project, event or business of your choice. You will explore various elements of design which include typography, illustration, image-making, product branding, website design, user experience design, and animation. By the end of the course you will be able to understand how to visually communicate your ideas to a wider audience. There is now an option to submit your work as a digital portfolio for the external standard for those interested in animation or time-based projects.
Look inside a mysterious box and find a source of artistic inspiration from which to develop a portfolio of photographic work. You will follow the creative process and use contemporary artists and photographers to inspire and model your own practice in order to create a range of amazing art works.You will learn to use cameras and Photoshop to make and digitally manipulate quality images. For the two internal standards students explore different types of photography, lighting, lenses and photography a variety of themes to create series of works. Once a successful theme has been developed, students use this as a starting point to create their two panel Folio for external assessment. There will be one trip during the year to visit a relevant exhibition. There is now an option to present a digital portfolio for the external standard for those interested in film, animation or time based projects.
Using allegory and metaphor, you will begin your artistic pursuit of visual splendour. The artist studio has been an alluring mysterious space where the artist is viewed as the avant-garde, a prophet highlighting the future of civilization. You will visually explore a theme and develop a range of inspirational images.You will develop ideas around a theme and style, and explore a range of drawing techniques within your chosen field of practice (Painting, Printmaking or Sculpture). After developing initial ideas as part of the internal assessments, you will use these ideas as a basis for developing work for your external folio assessment.


Level 3 Design

By following the design process and using a myriad of traditional and digital mark making techniques you will select and resolve a design brief with your creative flair and passion.You will learn to use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to design publicity, event or business of your choice. You will explore various elements of design which include typography, illustration, image-making, product branding, website design, user experience design, and animation. By the end of the course you will be able to understand how to visually communicate your ideas to a wider audience. There is now an option to submit your work as a digital portfolio for the external standard for those interested in animation or time based projects.


Level 3 Photography

By thinking outside the box, using photographers and artists and enhancing your Photoshop skills, you will create a portfolio of work that reveals your innate creativity.You will use cameras and Photoshop to make and digitally manipulate quality images. For the two internal standards students explore different types of photography, lighting, lenses and photograph a variety of themes to create series of works. Once a successful theme has been developed, students us this as a starting point to create their three panel Folio for external assessment. There will be one trip during the year to visit a relevant exhibition. There is now an option to present a digital portfolio for the external standard for those interested in film, animation or time-based projects.


Level 3 Fine Art

You will look for your muse from which to inflame your creative passions in an expression of inspirational art works. For hundreds of years artists have sought a muse to ignite their creative spark that feeds the dreams of each new civilization. Your ultimate goal is to inspire and transcend the benign and ordinary and rise on the flames of inspiration and creativity to create a range of outstanding art works.You will develop ideas around a theme and style, and explore a range of drawing techniques within your chosen field of practice (Painting, Printmaking or Sculpture). After developing initial ideas as part of the internal assessments, you will use these ideas as a basis for developing work for your external folio assessment.