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Art: Sketch, Draw, Paint (Elective)

“For the Christian, God is the supreme artist … God looked at His creation as it progressed and saw that it was good; when He had completed it, He said it was ‘very good’… The Great Artist was evidently much pleased with His world.” Clyde S. Kilby (Christianity and Aesthetics)

Overview

Art provides opportunities for the development of a visual language through artistic practice using a range of art materials. Students learn to apply tone and form effectively through the study of drawing. Watercolour and acrylic painting explore the art element of colour and development skills in brush mark making. They demonstrate the use of skills, techniques, and processes to express ideas and convey meaning in their artworks. Students are encouraged to make creative and personal responses to specific tasks and are provided opportunities for imaginative exploration, development and refinement of ideas. Students identify and describe artworks from different times and places and how ideas are interpreted by audiences.

Aims

Creating and making

  • To manipulate arts elements and principles effectively
  • To demonstrate a level of technical competence in the use of skills, techniques and processes – drawing and painting
  • To develop artworks which reflect personal art responses to specific tasks
  • Exploring and responding
  • To research and critically analyse and interpret artworks using appropriate arts language

Topics Include

  • Drawing: contour, tone
  • Colour theory and research
  • Watercolour and Acrylic Painting
  • Collage

Time Allocation

  • 5 periods per cycle for Semester 2

Prerequisites

  • None

Requirements

  • Booklist Items
  • Levy Cost

Assessment

  • All class work; research and developmental work, practical projects and finished artworks
  • Written work and assignments

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11