Level 3 Visual Arts - Painting

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. Idea generation and development underpin the production of artwork and presentation of a body of work for a portfolio. Students develop a theme of their choice and work with the teacher to extend their ideas visually. 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 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.