Art: Fine Art (Elective)

“If God made the flowers, they are worth painting and writing about. If God made the birds, they are worth painting. If God made the sky, the sky is worth painting. If God made the ocean, indeed it’s worth writing poetry about. It is worth man’s while to create works upon the basis of the great works God has already created.” Francis A. Schaeffer

Overview

Students learn and apply skills and techniques to develop a visual language and finished artworks. They explorevisual arts practices and styles as inspiration to develop a personal style, explore, express ideas, and themes in art works. Students select and manipulate materials, techniques and processes to develop their intentions in artworks. In the analysis and interpretation of artworks, they explore different cultures, forms of expression, intentions and viewpoints of artists and how they are viewed by audiences in historical and contemporary contexts. Students experience that their creative abilities demonstrate their uniqueness and they learn to appreciate and respond to the beauty that God has provided through His creation.

Aims

• To gain a knowledge of the nature of materials, techniques and working methods
• To manipulate arts elements and principles to effectively realise students’ ideas
• To demonstrate a level of technical competence in the use of skills, techniques and processes
• To develop artworks which reflect personal art responses to specific tasks
• To document thinking and working practices

Topics Include

• Charcoal drawing
• Drawing Fundamentals: Portrait, different drawing techniques and sketching
• Compose a painting: ­Landscape or Still Life
• Composition Fundamentals
• Colour Theory workshop
• Artists and their artworks in society
• Gelli printing self portrait

Time Allocation

• 5 periods per cycle
• This unit is offered in Semester 1

Prerequisites

• None

Requirements

• Levy Cost

Assessment

• All class work – research and developmental work, practical projects and resolved artworks
• Written work and assignments

“Now son of man, take a clay tablet, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it”. Ezekiel 4:1