Pukekohe High School
NCEA Level 2 Painting
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.
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 painting media. You will learn new techniques that advance your skills in a range of media, including water colour, acrylics, open acrylics, oil painting, dyes, high flow acrylics, paint pens, spray paints or digital painting. You will also be introduced to other medium that extend painting options and effects, such as gesso, gel medium or primal. Experimentation will include a wide range of painting and drawing tools and technologies.
By the end of Term 1 each student will have been guided to select a personal theme for their art-making, and will begin to make sequences of drawings and paintings that explore and express ideas on that theme. You will learn how to research ideas in divergent and creative ways. Students 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 & painting media and technologies.
Throughout this course, ākonga will have the opportunity to participate in exhibitions, competitions and trips to galleries or other sites. You will have the opportunity to take your work into different fields of practice - collage, digital art, installation, site specific art, 3D art forms and photography - enabling you to extend your thinking and deepen your art-making practice.
Visual Art is not only an art form but is a way of seeing the world. We teach in a way that encourages ākonga (students) to examine and respond to your world. In this course, you learn to work independently, experiment with media, make meaningful artworks, and respond to and value others' feedback and criticism. You will learn to use imagination, observation, research and practical investigation to develop a theme and ideas with increasing depth. You develop skills in a wide range of media, processes and techniques, engaging with unexpected outcomes and exploring multiple solutions. This course is mostly practical, but also develops high level thinking and research skills. These capabilities are relevant to any future pathway.
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Throughout this course, ākonga will have the opportunity to participate in exhibitions, competitions and trips to galleries or other sites. They will have the opportunity to take their work into different fields - collage, digital art, installation, site specific art, 3D art forms and photography as they extend their thinking and deepen their work in paint and/or print.
Study of Painting and the visual arts equips you with transferable skills that can be used in a wide range of contexts, future pathways, tertiary courses and careers. Painting is a hands-on learning 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.
Image credits - student work featured by the following students: Jessica Pressnell, Jarney Proctor, Hannah Robinson, Toni Lafaele, Tessa Bryant, Sala Deng, Cass Elley, Sophia Toop.
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.
* Opportunity to exhibit work in the Community Art Gallery
Term 3
Extend and refine ideas and skills:
- Extend your personal investigation into your theme and ideas
- Refine your own personal painting style and approach, extending your skills and techniques
- Introduction to innovations in contemporary art practice such as installation, digital projection, 3D work.
- Opportunity to enter Franklin Arts Festival exhibition & competition
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, and should have gained achieved results and at least 10 credits. Students who have not taken Level 1 Art or Photo-Design should have an adequate level of drawing and media skills suited to Year 12 entry level, and a genuine interest in learning and making art works. If you have not achieved success in a Level 1 art course, you will need to gain approval from the HOD Art.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Students are encouraged to purchase their own personal kit of art supplies, such as drawing pencils, eraser, paint bushes, and an art journal. These are available from National Art Supplies. Details will be provided at the start of the year.
Pathway
Visual art courses develop multiple life-long skills such as the ability to think in complex and divergent ways, creativity, positive learning dispositions and personal competencies, as well as specific skills in the arts.
Check out this video from the UK Government promoting the importance and critical relevance of the Creative Arts in our present and future societies. It is equally applicable to our national future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcltwG7DlU
There are many career options and tertiary pathways involving visual arts skills, visual literacies and creative thinking. These span a wide range of industries and fields of knowledge. People with creative, original, high level thinking and problem-solving skills are highly sought after.
Tertiary study in creative and visual fields, such as visual arts, media studies, architecture, fashion, interior- and other- design fields, textiles, teaching, education, gallery work, conservator work, psychology, philosophy, arts and humanities, cultural studies, creative enterprise, film, media, theatre work, visual communication fields, and many more.
Assessment Information
Level 2 Painting is a portfolio-based subject. Students will develop work in their art journals and make sequences of drawings and paintings 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 paintings. The external achievement standard portfolio is in the form of a two-panel folio board full of drawings and paintings. The folio is a body of students’ original works in drawing and painting that needs to show development and continued extension of students’ skills and ideas.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 painting
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
Pathway Tags
Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Artistic Director, Film and Video Editor, Beauty Therapist, Tattoo Artist, Jeweller, Make-up Artist, Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Visual Merchandiser, Exhibition and Collections Technician, Media Producer, Hairdresser/Barber, Private Teacher/Tutor, Architect, Architectural Technician, Interior Designer, Industrial Designer, Conservator, Landscape Architect, Landscaper, Project Manager, Animator/Digital Artist, Historian, Artist, Graphic Designer, Curator, Game Developer, Photographer,
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