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The Senior Art courses is designed to meet the curriculum objectives of the National Art Curriculum, and allow students to achieve success with Visual Art Achievement Standards.
The programme allows students to develop:
Artistic skills with a variety of mediums
Creative imagination
Personal techniques
Critical faculty
Gather information and develop ideas for making artworks
Promote independent work habits and to extend your personal learning.
Embark on projects developing individual and creative artworks.
Create a series of artworks
Students look at and discuss the work of important historical and contemporary artists and have written projects and self-evaluations.
All of the art assignments consist of both homework and classroom projects.
Level 2 & 3 Art (2023).mp4Students discussing the Level 2 and Level 3 painting courses and answering questions about the course.
Visual Art, programmes are structured to allow for individualised learning based on skill, ability and interests.
Course Expectations
Students are expected to be curious, experiment, take chances, fail and to learn from it, share their experiences during in-class critiques, respect the work and ideas of classmates, develop a set of criteria for discussing and judging work, think, and finally, become familiar with artwork made by other people.
During class students will have access to a range of art materials but are required to have a range of their own materials for use outside of class time.
Students are encouraged to keep a Visual Diary to collect ideas and anything of interest to them.
Year Plan
Year Plan
Folio Exemplars
Folio Exemplars
Integrated Achievement Standards, internal into external
Integrated Achievement Standards, internal into external
What does this mean?
The course is broken into 2 internal achievement standards and 1 external achievement standard a total number of 3 units of work. The units of work will integrate and contribute work towards your external folio and be based on a years study on one theme.
Each standard will be assessed at a set time during the year. Work from each unit may be incorporated into another assessment and assessed against more than 1 standard.
Due to the course being structured as units of work integrated with a number of formative checkpoints there is no resubmission opportunities.
Examples of a Level 2 folio
Examples of a Level 2 folio
Examples of a Level 3 folio
Examples of a Level 3 folio
Art/Painting Class website
Art/Painting Class website
A course specific website is used by the Level 2 & Level 3 Art/Painting class. This has been created to support teaching and learning for the course.
Series of Work
Series of Work
For NCEA students complete a theme of work for the year. This series of work is developed over the course of the year. At the end of the year work is presented on a 2 or 3 board folio for the external examination depending on your course level. Note: Students can be removed from the folio standard and entered into an internal-only programme in consultation with parents, deans and the Senior Leadership Team.
A broad theme is selected for the years study. Your theme will be based around your personal interests and the accessibility of subject matter. Your subject matter needs to be easily sourced. It must also relate as much as possible to your interests and abilities. By using a theme that personally interests you it allows you to explore a range of approaches, in terms of artistic models, techniques, concepts and materials.
What is a series of work?
What is a series of work?
An art series is a unified, cohesive body of work that employs the same technique, subject, or palette throughout multiple works. A painting series can be many things, but the paintings in the series all need to have a common thread that connects them. Connections can be made by using a common technique, colour palette or the same subject or elements done in different mediums or different ways.
A series is essentially a collection of paintings that when viewed leaves no doubt the same artist created them all. The theme running through the work is stated and restated in different yet interconnected ways, and the viewer can look at the collection and understand more easily what the artist is trying to convey. In this post, I’ll share a couple of the series that have emerged in my work and how they came about.
Why a series of work
Why a series of work
A series speaks to the breadth and scope of an artist’s creative abilities and to the depth with which they can explore a particular subject, concept or idea. After the commitment to begin a series is made, it begins to take on a life of its own. With each additional painting in a series, the original thought grows into something more refined and bigger than a singular painting could ever be.
Your work should get stronger as your series develops!
Student examples of a series of work before specifically generating work for the folio.
Student examples of workbooks showing how an idea develops into a series of work
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