Visual Arts in Year 7 explores four main programs providing students with a clear introduction to art history and theory, as well as a variety of practical artistic skills, techniques and processes.
Students will learn to use a range of strategies in artmaking and learn about the different conventions and procedures to make artworks and investigate the world as a source of ideas, concepts and subject matter in the Visual Arts.
The Year 7 programs include:
'The Portrait'
'Abstraction'
'Still Life'
'Our World'
Through these programs, Year 7 students will experience a mixture of 2D, 3D & 4D learning experiences in the mandatory fields of: drawing, canvas painting, digital media (photography or video or photoshop or animation etc) and ceramics (pinch, carving, modelling).
Additional skills and learning processes in the Year 7 program may include: lino printmaking, non-ceramic sculpture and animation.
