Middle School Subjects – Visual Arts
Through Visual Arts, students make and respond using visual arts knowledge, understanding and skills to represent meaning associated with personal and global views, and intrinsic and extrinsic worlds.
Visual Arts engages students in a journey of discovery, experimentation and problem-solving relevant to visual perception and visual language. Students undertake this journey by using visual techniques, technologies, practices and processes. Learning in the Visual Arts, students become increasingly confident and proficient in achieving their personal visual aesthetic, and appreciate and value that of others.
Visual Arts in the Australian Curriculum provides opportunities for Middle School students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences (Australian Curriculum, 2018).
For each unit of work, students will complete: a Folio (documentation of ideas, artwork analysis and practical techniques) and a Practical (final resolved artwork).
Year 7
At Year 7, units may include a combination of the following: |
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Dreamscape Self-Portrait |
Exploring techniques in 3x5 lettering, line, colour and shape |
Patterns in Australian Art |
Developing personal iconography in response to traditional Aboriginal artworks |
Op Art Sculpture |
Creating unique optical illusions on a three-dimensional paper sculpture |
Perspective Cityscape Drawing |
Analysing depth within existing artworks, then using one or two-point perspective in own cityscape composition |
New and Recycled Robot Sculpture |
Experimenting with mixed media sculptural techniques to create a themed robot using recycled materials. |
Year 8
At Year 8, units may include a combination of the following: |
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Super Mario Composition |
Demonstrate an understanding of colour theory and alternate colour schemes |
Clay Fish |
Analysing the form of Japanese Koi fish when creating a unique clay sculpture (building and glazing techniques taught) |
Abstract Design |
Using observational drawing techniques to develop an abstract design that can be printed using a linocut |
Tone and Portraiture |
Develop technical skills in graphite drawing through a series of tonal exercises |
Year 9
At Year 9, units may include a combination of the following: |
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Collaborative Art (Mural, mosaic, or sculpture) |
Students work collaboratively to plan, design and create art that can be displayed publically within the college |
Scumbling Portrait (Painting) |
Build skills in tonal rendering through observation to complete a portrait painting using a scumbling technique |
Emmausimals (Graphic Illustration and Product Design) |
Develop a unique creature through illustration techniques and develop a colour sticker, laser cut badge/keyring and story book page. |