Level 1 Painting
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Ms K. Robson.
In this class you will learn different techniques in drawing, painting and colour mixing to improve your skills and understanding of the media. You will also learn how to develop ideas in composition (arranging things on your paper/canvas) through looking at experts (New Zealand artists). To strengthen our composition ideas, we will also learn about our local area of Kelston and West Auckland as well as out own personal history (whakapapa). Our work will focus on our identity (tuakiri ahurea). You will complete 4 projects based around this theme; research, skills based, artists based which will all support the final project that focuses on creating our finial ideas through a series of paintings. This subject can lead into Level 2 Painting, Design, DVC and Photography. This course is also important if students want to study Art and Design based degrees or want to make their career in a creative industry.
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Course Overview
Term 1
Painting Skills and techniques
Term 2
Research through painting and drawing
Term 3
The Painting project - 8 Paintings (The Folio)
Term 4
Folio Exhibition
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.1 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context
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Visual Arts 1.2 - Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions
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Visual Arts 1.3 - Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making
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Visual Arts 1.4 - Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition
Pathway Tags
Animator/Digital Artist, Copywriter, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Artist, Artistic Director, Dancer, Beauty Therapist, Tattoo Artist, Entertainer, Film/Television Camera Operator, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Make-up Artist, Curator, Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Visual Merchandiser, Media Producer, Lighting Technician, Game Developer, Hairdresser/Barber, Model, Photographer,
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Disclaimer
Course Selection is confirmed at the start of 2025. You can change the courses you have selected up until the start of next year provided there are still spaces in the course you wish to change to.
Some courses may become unavailable due to the number of students taking the courses or changes in staffing.
New courses may also be introduced, in which case you will be notified and given the opportunity to select the new course.