Year 10 ART - Core

Year 10 ART - CORE is a full year course and is the best foundation for future learning.  

Alternate course: Year 10 ART SEMESTER which runs for two terms only.  

This course is a Creative Mix-It:  of practical art media & techniques, photography, 3D work, and an introduction to exciting digital visual technologies.

Year 10 Art is primarily a practical subject.  Students learn through making finished art works and developing an artists' journal. They experience a wide range of techniques and processes, and develop  wide range of skills and knowledge.

Course Content Overview ... here's what you will learn and do ...

• DRAWING using a range of materials and approaches
• Experimental drawing
• Mixed media works
• Portraiture
• Still life drawing
• Stencil making
• digital and analogue drawing processes
• Drawing animals from real life
• Illustration - creative character concepts & animals real and imagined
• VISUAL RESEARCH SKILLS
• Idea gathering
• Collecting imagery
• Planning and developing ideas
• Studying artists’ works
• MURAL PAINTINGS in school and out of school
• Intro to acrylic painting
• Work with digital & mixed media drawing processes to create mural compositions
• Stencils, acrylic paints & spray paints
• Group murals on and off-site; working with visiting artists
• PAINTING
• water colour painting
• acrylic painting
•  PRINTMAKING
•  Screen printing (can link to Enterprise studies unit)
•  Social action-related theme
•  Reduction lino-printing – make and sell an edition of prints to raise money for a cause
•  Dry point etching 
• May also cover cyanotype or collograph printing
•  PHOTOGRAPHY – “The Selfie” and “My Whakapapa”
• Portrait unit (self, important others, still life objects, my culture)
• animate your photos 
• Create a selfie Zine
• TRIP to the Art Gallery or Museum, and to local sites of interest linked to topics
• 3D WORK
• Opportunity to make Wearable Art and enter Show Quest
• Clay work
• Other 3D processes
• INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP
• Layered Images unit – my heritage and whakapapa 
• Mixed media art project
• multi-media printed works combined with hands-on art making processes
•  MOVING IMAGE 
• animation, introduction to photo shop, digital tilt brush and VR technologies.

Creativity is essential in a global economy needing a workforce that is knowledgeable, imaginative and innovative. Making and participating in the arts aids the development of skills that will be necessary for our ākonga (students') futures. Leading people in any field are those who can think creatively and innovatively.  Creativity is cited by business leaders as the top competency for the future. Studying the arts teaches determination and resilience – qualities useful to any pathway in life.  They teach us to experiment and be curious,  that it is okay to fail, to not get things right the first time, to persevere and have the courage to start again. Not to mention, it is lots of fun and always hands-on! 

 Learning encompasses the four Visual Arts Curriculum Strands: Practical Knowledge, Developing Ideas, Communicating and Interpreting and the Visual Arts in Context.  In Year 10 Art, ākonga learn to work independently and collaboratively to construct meanings and produce artwork. Ākonga learn through making practical work and the study of others’ art. They learn to make objects and images, to research, source and develop ideas, and to communicate and interpret meaning.  

10 Art focuses on the concepts of creativity and connection. This course is divided into four interrelated areas that all explore a common ‘big picture’ idea:  observing nature and our place in nature, culture and heritage, identity, and social activism.
  

This course has been created as an foundational course for the specialist courses available in the senior school.  It is the best foundation for Year 11 Visual Art, Year 11 Photo-Design and further senior visual arts courses. 

Ākonga will have opportunities to participate in exhibition opportunities through Mural projects, Ngā Toi Show Quest Wearable Art show, The Auckland Zine festival, the Franklin Art festival and other various competitions.
  

We can't wait to have you join us in Year 10 Art, to help you develop exciting skills, to learn and think about important ideas, and to see you grow as amazing creative young people.  If you have any questions, please connect.