Drawing Links to the Curriculum & Lesson Ideas Whitefriars College, Donvale
Portraits Levels 5 & 6
Drawing Levels 9 & 10
VIC Curriculum Explore and Express (VCAVAE026) Explore visual conventions and use materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to particular art forms, and to make artworks.
VIC Curriculum Visual Arts Practices (VCAVAV030) Select and apply visual conventions, materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to different art forms when making artworks.
VIC Curriculum Explore and Express Ideas (VCAVAV040) Explore the visual arts practices and styles as inspiration to develop a personal style, explore, express ideas, concepts and themes in artworks.
NSW Curriculum Making (VAS3.2) Makes artworks for different audiences, assembling materials in a variety of ways.
NSW Curriculum Artmaking (5.1)
Activity
Activity
Students demonstrate their understanding of the visual conventions (Art Elements and Principles) to create a portrait with the audience in mind. Students will consider how to communicate and express feelings and ideas via their choices.
Students create a large scale tonal drawing using subject matter that has personal significance: Person, place or object.
NSW Curriculum Making (VA2.1) Represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter.
Activity Students create an expressive ‘emotion portrait’. Exploring the emotional attributes of colour. Students use dry pastel as a drawing medium, after exploring the stylistic artworks of Italian artist Modigliani.
Learning • Students explore ideas and expressions when making artworks inspired by observation or imagination. • Students represent emotional experience by focusing on the expressive qualities of the face and how it conveys emotion. • Students explore Personal and Social Capabilities by identifying individual experiences that influence their emotional responses in their portraits.
The materials presented in this publication are for information purposes only. Lesson notes have been altered and may differ from the original content. For further information please refer to the Victorian Visual Arts Curriculum and the New South Wales Creative Arts Syllabus.
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DRAWING Emotion Drawings Level 3 & 4
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Learning • Students consider the influence of the audience and how it can impact art making decisions. • Students make informed choices about using visual conventions to express their intentions. Students consider the impact of these choices, and how this impacts on the audience’s understanding of the artist’s intention.
Develops range and autonomy in selecting and applying visual arts conventions and procedures to make artworks.
Learning • Students demonstrate technical proficiency creating form using tone and shape. • Students manipulate materials to construct artworks that express conceptual meaning.
Extension Use water-soluble graphite to draw with; add water with a fine brush to explore different effects working tonally.
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