Drawing: 

The aim of this project is to engage students’ curiosity and questioning through skilful experimentation with materials, understanding the formal elements, whilst developing key skills in artist analysis.

Colour:

• To imaginatively combine their key skills in the formal elements and apply these to a still-life painting.  
• Use knowledge and understanding of the colour wheel to build on their ability to create form in a painting. 
• All the colour groups 
• Complementary Colours 
• Harmonious Colours 
• Contrasting Colours 
• They will learn the following key terms and apply to a still-life painting. 
• To learn about still-life art and painting techniques to paint and draw objects.  

During year 7 we cover the following skills:

• Formal Elements
• Colour wheel
• Primary, secondary and tertiary and complimentary colours
• Hot and cold colours
• Creating line through grid method
• Shape
• Shading and blending
• Pattern
• Combining the formal elements with the following techniques:
  • How to use line and mark-making techniques to make a shape
  • Blending colour pencils
  • Observational studies
  • Mixed media approaches
  • Water colour techniques
  • Oil pastel techniques
  • Combining still life and art
  • Expanding original artworks
  • Develop coloured pencil blending techniques
  • Mark making to different observational elements
  • Music, emotion and colour
  • Expressing colour through mark-making and line
  • Composition
  • Water colour techniques and building on previous works to create final outcome
  • Creating work in different formats
  • Still-Life observational drawings
  • The environment around them and art
  • How to portray issues in the world through art
  • Messages through art
  • Painting techniques
  • Use of pattern
  • Wax resist
  • Using materials as a surface
  • Transfer techniques
  • Printing techniques through mark making 
  • Colour theory artist
  • Mark-making techniques

Assessment:

Throughout the year, we conduct assessments each term to ensure that key skills are fully understood. This allows students to build on their knowledge and achieve more creative outcomes.

Homework:

During the year, we provide all students with art and design tasks that complement other curriculum areas and feed them with artist influences to create outcomes that can enrich their cultural capital.

Surrealism project:

• To learn about the Surrealist Movement and key concepts.
• To learn about key Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali and Max Ernst, as well as contemporary Surrealist artists. Learning how Surrealist looks at literature and social constructs to inform her nightmare style work where hybrid creatures are created and come alive.
• To experiment with collage techniques to create strange juxtapositions of natural elements and machinery.
• To explore an element of chance and collaboration in their artwork, typical of the Surrealists, students play a game of Consequences as a response to Dali.

Cubism project:

• To learn about the Cubism movement and key concepts.
• To learn about key Cubism artists such as Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, as well as contemporary cubist artists. Learning how cubism looks at literature and social constructs to inform different styles of work.
• To experiment with collage techniques to create strange juxtapositions of natural elements and machinery.

During year 8 we cover the following skills:

• Popular Culture
• Artist research
• Mixed media onomatopoeia
• Drawing using a view finder (Closeup)
• Packaging observational drawing
• Analysis of pop art image
• Reinterpretation of artist’s work
• Pop art portrait
• Using found images to recreate in a pop art style
• Applying experimental media
• Using watercolour’s
• Oil pastel
• Coloured pencil blending techniques European Culture
• Abstract/cubist research
• Creating abstract/cubist work by chance
• Oil pastel blending techniques
• Magazine collage
• Continuous line drawing
• Continuous line pen drawing
• Proportion research
• Face scale and proportion
• Observational drawing of features using:
  • graded pencil (Tone, blending techniques)
  • Cross hatch pen
  • Charcoal blending
  • Pen and ink
  • Combining previous processes to create final outcome African Culture
  • Mind map
  • Grid method drawings
  • Tie dye
  • Designing and creating patterns
  • Silhouette painting
  • Watercolour blending
  • Making stencils
  • Abstract and realistic acrylic painting
  • Lettering and typefaces
  • Pen work

Assessment:

Throughout the year, we conduct assessments each term to ensure that key skills are fully understood. This allows students to build on their knowledge and achieve more creative outcomes.

Homework:

 During the year, we provide all students with art and design tasks that compliment other curriculum areas and feed them with artist influences to create outcomes that can enrich their cultural capital.

Art History project:

All pupils to create a poster and an artist booklet that shows graphic design knowledge and the contextual understanding of their artist. This is supported by different uses of material selection that help guide each learner with their chosen outcomes.

Students will learn how to create 2 different styles of outcomes to answer the same questions when delivering art history.

Each learner makes creative decisions that help in their understanding of visual language.

Identity project:

All students will learn how to show identity through different mediums in art and design. Students will use both printmaking and clay to create outcomes based on themselves.

The Art of Storytelling:

Students will use Grayson Perry’s narrative tapestries to recognise how contemporary culture uses modern-day symbology to represent culture, and identify the importance and significance of storytelling throughout art history. Students will use colour, design and contemporary symbols to convey meaning, and to tell a narrative within the creation of their own 'clay' designs based on a character of their choice. Students will create a final outcome that has specific colours and symbols that tell the story of their character and has individual meaning to them.

During year 9 we cover the following skills:

• Self-identity
• Mind map
• Collage (AO1 criteria)
• Observational Drawing (Primary)
• Mixed media experimentation
• Pattern and Repetition
• Abstracting work
• Collage
• Oil pastel
• Artist inspiration, research and analysis
• Create designs inspired by an artist
• Develop and choose best design
• Work with 3D media
• Evaluate Gallery and Exhibition
• Observational drawing
• Experimenting with black and white media
• Experimenting with coloured media
• Annotate work - successes and limitations
• Select best work
• Choose appropriate media
• Create a final piece suitable for a gallery setting Materials and Techniques
• Mark making techniques using pen and pencil
• Watercolour techniques
• Acrylic painting techniques
• Printing techniques
• Collage/mixed media techniques
• Pastel techniques
• 3D techniques (cardboard)
• Small studies combining techniques in each media

Assessment:

Throughout the year, we conduct assessments each term to ensure that key skills are fully understood. This allows students to build on their knowledge and achieve more creative outcomes.

Homework:

During the year, we provide all students with art and design tasks that compliment other curriculum areas and feed them with artist influences to create outcomes that can enrich their cultural capital.