Artist Techniques and Painting Skills 1 – Fauvist Landscape Project

You will gain knowledge of Landscape Art learning to identify the foreground, middle ground, background, horizon line and vanishing point.  Practically investigate and write about the visual elements of the Fauvist Art Movement with their use of non-realistic colours, line, and texture. You will develop your painting skills and learn how to apply paint in layers. 

• Assessment 2 – Apply the knowledge of colour theory and painting skills learnt to create a Fauvist landscape Painting by the artist Andre Derain.

Recording Ideas and Presenting a Personal Response 1 – Designing a Composition Project

You will learn how to design a composition retrieving the knowledge of a foreground, middle ground, and background, understanding that colour fades and objects get smaller as they go into the distance. You will develop pencil crayon skills by working in layers to create light, medium and dark tones. Develop the skills to draw a 3D hair plait in pencil and a chequer board using 1 point perspective in pencil crayons.

• Assessment 3 – Apply your knowledge and skills to present a personal response. The composition you will create is a girl with plaits in the foreground, a 1-point perspective chequer board in the middle ground with pencil crayons fading into the distance. You will research and record a personal idea for an object at the vanishing point in the background.

Starting in year 8 and continuing into year 9 you can choose to challenge yourself during the projects and assessments. This opportunity will stretch your technical skills, creativity, and independence as a leaner.

Drawing Skills 2 – Portrait Project

You will continue to retrieve and refine your drawing skills by learning to blend, contour, use highlights, core, and cast shadows to draw the facial features. You will develop and discuss your understanding of proportion and how artists use distortion techniques to create new ideas and meaning behind their Portrait Art.

• Assessment 1 – Draw half of a realistic portrait, applying the knowledge and drawing skills learnt.

Colour Theory Knowledge 2

You will learn about harmonious and complimentary colours. Retrieve pencil crayon skills to build layers of tone and extend these skills by blending with a hatching technique and harmonious colours to create an image of a succulent plant.

Artist Techniques and Painting Skills 2 – Mixed Media Portraiture Project

You will research and record cultural patterns in biro and retrieve your paintbrush control skills with watercolours. You will explore contemporary portrait artists work, learning how to use their watercolour painting techniques and combining this with pencil and biro (mixed media).

Assessment 2 -   Design a mixed media portrait inspired by a range of artist techniques and ideas. Demonstrate creativity and technical skill with watercolours, pencil and biro and the knowledge of harmonious and complimentary colours.

Recording Ideas and Presenting a Personal Response 2 – Ceramic Animal Moneybox Project

You will learn about the properties of clay and the ceramic process.  Research sources of a chosen animal, using this to develop and record creative design ideas for your animal moneybox. You will learn the ceramic skills to make a thumb pot, join clay together using the scratch, slip and stick technique and how to refine your work.

• Assessment 3 – Record creative design ideas and create a personal response of a ceramic animal money box demonstrating the knowledge and skills learnt.

Drawing Skills 3 - Figure Project

You will gain knowledge of figurative art, retrieving and refining your understanding of proportion and distortion. You will learn a method to draw a realistic figure in proportion using shape and refining your work as it progresses. You will retrieve and refine your drawing skills learning how to draw the folds on clothes, creating form.   

Assessment 1 – Draw a figure from memory showing you understand the taught method. Apply the method to draw a figure from a photograph demonstrating the knowledge and skills learnt and the ability to refine your work.

Colour Theory Knowledge 3

You will learn about monochromatic colours and how to create a shade, tint, and tone with a colour by adding black, white, and grey to it.

Artist Techniques and Painting Skills 3 – Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period

You will gain knowledge about Pablo Picasso and his Blue Period and write a personal response to an art piece through poetry. Refine your painting skills and learn how to paint in the style of Pablo Picasso, painting in layers and using monochromatic colours, shades, tint, and tone. You will retrieve your knowledge on how to draw figures and the folds of clothes and develop these skills with paint.

Assessment 2 – Create a copy of a Pablo Picasso figure from the Blue Period demonstrating the refinement of the artist techniques, knowledge of colour theory and the painting skills learnt.

Recording Ideas and Presenting a Personal Response 3 – Surreal Heart Project

You will gain knowledge about the Surrealist Art Movement and how they juxtaposed images. Develop the skills to use a range of mark making techniques in pen, learning to make light, medium and dark tones with a layering technique. You will apply these skills to create an anatomical drawing of a heart. The use of mark making skills will be extended into pencil crayons using harmonious colours through experimentation.  You will research sources to create a surreal heart with and use this to develop and record refined design ideas.

Assessment 3 – Record refined design ideas to create a personal response of a Surreal Heart. Demonstrate refined use of pen, pencil crayons, harmonious colours and the mark making techniques learnt.