Pukekohe High School
NCEA Level 2 Printmaking
Course Description
Head of Faculty - Kaihautuu: Mrs V. Moore-Allen.
This course will extend your art-making skills and the way in which you see and respond to the world. Students are encouraged to honour and express their own culture as they develop their work, and to explore the cultural perspectives and experiences of others. Throughout this course, ākonga will have the opportunity to participate in workshops with artists, exhibitions, competitions and trips to galleries or other locations.
In Term 1 Aakonga (students) will participate in a series of short units of work to develop and extend skills using a wide range of drawing and printmaking media. You will learn new techniques that advance your skills in a range of media, including new drawing techniques, mono-printing, gelli-plate printing, dry point etching, chine collé , screen printing, lino cuts and woodcuts, pronto plate, silk-mezzo tint, tetra-pack prints, and collographs. You will also be introduced to technologies that extend printmaking options, including 3D work, installation, sculptural objects, scanography and using Photoshop. Students will develop skills in composition by using Adobe Photoshop to design art works and to make digital prints. Students will experiment with printmaking processes and materials to explore lots of different effects and ways of making works. Students in this course can learn to make high level art works without needing to be good at drawing.
By the end of Term 2 each student will have been guided to select a personal theme for their own art-making, and will begin to make sequences of drawings and prints that explore and express ideas on that theme. You will learn how to research ideas in divergent and creative ways. You learn to generate, extend, analyse, clarify and regenerate ideas that are personally relevant. You learn how to support and extend your art practice using an art journal. You will learn how to look at the works of artists of all different kinds, from the past and the present, and take inspiration from their work as you develop and extend your own ideas and skills. You will engage with unexpected outcomes and explore multiple solutions. By the end of this course, you will have developed an individual artistic approach and style in drawing & print media and technologies.
Visual Art equips ākonga with transferable skills that can be used in a wide range of tertiary courses and careers, while engaging in a subject that inspires and excites. This course will develop essential skills and competencies such as: communication, critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, the ability to research and analyse, adaptability, resilience, independence, and innovation.
Course Overview
Term 1
* Developing a Personal Art Journal
* Drawing Media & Processes:
- extending skills using a wide range of media and techniques; extending observational drawing skills; participating in experimental approaches to drawing.
* Extending Printmaking Media skills & processes:
- explore new ways with printmaking media - experiment - explore - refine - apply to make own works.
* Selecting and resourcing a personal theme and investigation: extended brainstorming; research; find and make visual resources from which to draw and make art works.
Term 2
* Explore and extend your personal theme thinking.
* Make three sequences of work in drawing and printmaking for your theme. These will go onto folio board 1.
* Look closely at the work of artists. Make artist model study pages in your art journal. Apply techniques and ideas from artists' works to make your own original work.
Term 3
Extend and refine ideas and skills:
- Extend your personal investigation into your theme and ideas
- Refine your own personal printmaking by extending skills and techniques
- Introduction to innovations in contemporary art practice such as installation, digital projection, 3D work.
Term 4
Completion of folios for external assessment.
Recommended Prior Learning
Ideally students will have studied and achieved success in Level 1 Art or Photo-Design. Students who have not taken Level 1 Arts should have a genuine interest in making art, and working with hands-on materials and processes. Students need to actively participate to learn and achieve in this course.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Students are encouraged to purchase a personal art journal, drawing media (pencils, eraser, sharpie) and their own essential printmaking tools (an etching tool and woodcut tools). These will be available for purchase through National Art Supplies. Details will be given to students at the start of the year.
Pathway
Printmaking and the Visual Art equips students with transferable skills that can be used in a wide range of tertiary courses and careers, while engaging in a subject that inspires and excites. This course will develop essential skills and competencies such as: communication, critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, the ability to research and analyse, adaptability, resilience, independence, and innovation.
Assessment Information
Level 2 Printmaking is a portfolio-based subject. Students will develop work in their art journals and make sequences of drawings and prints throughout the year. The developmental learning, thinking, media studies and artist model studies in students’ art journals form part of the internal achievement standards, as well as finished drawings and prints. The external achievement standard portfolio is in the form of a two-panel folio board full of drawings and print sequences. The folio is a body of students’ original works in drawing and printmaking that needs to show students’ skills and ideas developing and extending.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.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 2.2 - Use drawing methods to apply knowledge of conventions appropriate to printmaking
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 2.3 - Develop ideas in a related series of drawings appropriate to established printmaking practice
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 2.4 - Produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within printmaking
Pathway Tags
Animator/Digital Artist, Architect, Architectural Technician, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Historian, Artist, Artistic Director, Film and Video Editor, Beauty Therapist, Tattoo Artist, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Industrial Designer, Conservator, Jeweller, Make-up Artist, Curator, Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Visual Merchandiser, Exhibition and Collections Technician, Media Producer, Game Developer, Landscape Architect, Landscaper, Hairdresser/Barber, Photographer, Private Teacher/Tutor, Project Manager, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Counsellor, Early Childhood Teacher, Primary School Teacher, Kaiwhakaako Māori, Youth Worker, Secondary School Teacher, Teacher Aide,
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