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.
Students 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.
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.
You will have some equipment supplied as an art pack for you to use during the year. This is yours to keep and will be disbursed to your account. You should already have your own basic equipment like brushes etc.
Art equipment needs to be kept in your pencil case so you bring it to school and home. Other supplies are to be left at home so you have the equipment for home learning.
Bring back and forth to school for use at home and in school
Workbook - supplied
To be kept in pencil case supplied:
Palette knife -supplied
Range of sketch pencils 2B, 4B etc - NOT SUPPLIED YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THIS
Ink pen, Fine sharpie NOT SUPPLIED YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THIS
Range paint brushes NOT SUPPLIED YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THIS
To be left at home
8 set of acrylic paint -supplied
Acrylic paint medium -supplied
A3 Drawing wallet and paper supplies - black, brown, wet strength etc -supplied
Graphite transfer paper -supplied
We will be using the following apps for the class which would be beneficial for you to have on a phone or tablet with a camera you can use.
* pinterest (school account)
* google slideshow
If you do not have a phone or camera that works, I will have the department ipad that you can use to photograph your work and you can email or airdrop them to yourself. You will use your laptop for pinterest and google slides.
You will create a Google slideshow to record your ideas and learning. This is an electronic version of a hardcopy workbook. This is a requirement for the course to record your learning for the Achievement Standards.
Your slideshow will initially be set up by your teacher with google classroom and assigned.
There will be set formative checkpoints and your teacher will be able to view your work so they have access for feedback and marking your assessment.
Workbook is a hardcopy book you create your work in, a google slideshow is your electronic version of your workbook. You can create directly in the slideshow for some tasks.
Workbook are working documents so are something that can be generated by hand and photographed for your slideshow. They are are something to be done in real time not at the end of an assessment. The importance is the recording of your creative journey, explanation of your ideas and critical thinking with your work not on how your workbook looks.
It is vital that you remember to update your slideshow so your teacher can support you with your learning. Slideshows are authenticity requirement and enable teachers to give accurate feedback with your work and support you when working at home.
You will submit a pdf files of your work for teacher formatives and summative Assessment (final hand ins). A screencast of how to do this is in the resource below.
Workbook / slideshow are all the same thing. They are documents that present your thinking with your painting assessments.
RESEARCH:
Technical information
Works of artists
Your topic/theme
Any other information you feel is significant or relevant
CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT: should show an articulate and readable visual design process to include investigations of:
Ideas
Inspiration from artist models and application to own work
Experiments and solutions
Techniques and processes
Other relevant development work
Annotations explaining what you are thinking and critiquing your work
Artworks created
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1OLUrIwsIrhS4H9aMmRZ-CcjBcjDf4Fwg
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1symOXd5et3LTwTzUqQkzuTaRfqIFcsnsShUQg6NWh90/edit#slide=id.p