Level 2 Visual Arts - Painting
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Ms W. van Heeswijk.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES: Students engage in practical work including drawing and painting. Students choose to work with acrylic, water-colour, oil paint OR digitally paint on a wacom tablet. Students develop a theme of their choice and work with the teacher to extend their ideas visually. Idea generation and development underpin the production of artwork and presentation of a body of work for a portfolio. Students engage in cycles of research and investigation of pictorial ideas related to a thematic focus for the duration of the course.
The development of practical, investigative, creative and critical thinking skills this course leads to are; the creative industries, the study of fine arts, graphic art, photography, architecture, design, spatial design, education, game and animation art and design, film industry, art director for film or television, museum and gallery curator, textile design, jewellery design, magazine and book design, illustrator, advertising, visual effects artist.
Who would be interested in this course?
Any student with an interest in Art. If new to Visual Arts, students must seek permission from the HOD of Visual Arts (Mr Hambridge), or students have gained 12 credits from either Level 1 Visual Arts or Level 1 Digital Media.
Exclusions: a maximum of TWO Visual Arts courses can be taken.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
All course related materials for use in class will be supplied by the school. However, a recommended list of materials for use at home is as follows. A3 heavyweight stock sketchbook, Selection of shading pencils that include HB, 2B, 4B, a basic acrylic painting set, a watercolour set and a selection of paint brushes.
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 2.3 - Develop ideas in a related series of drawings appropriate to established painting practice
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 2.4 - Produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within painting