Year 9 course overview 2016

1. Year 9 and 10
Visual Arts

2. Who is this course for?
This course is for students:
 Who have a passion and enjoyment
for Visual Arts
 Who are highly able art students
 Who want to expand their
appreciation of the role of Visual Arts
in our society

3. Where will this course lead you?
This course is designed to develop your:
 Creativity
 Autonomy
 Skills, knowledge & understanding of Art
 Appreciation of Visual Arts
 Initiative in undertaking academic work
 Ability to work independently and
collaboratively

4. Leads to Year 11 & 12 Visual
Arts
Body of Work

5. HSC Body of Work

6. HSC Body of Work

7. HSC Body of Work

8. Visual Arts HSC Results 2014 (19 Knox candidates; 9106 in NSW)
Mean Std Dev Band 6 Band 5 Band 4 Band 3 Band 2 Band 1
Knox 84% 16% - - -
NSW 11% 38% 37% 12% 2% 0.%
HSC Results: 2014
• Sixteen (16) students achieved Band 6
• Fourteen (3) students achieved Band 5
•Four (4) students pre selected for possible inclusion in ArtExpress
• Two (2) student was selected to exhibit their work in ArtExpress

9. Year 9 Visual Arts aims to:
• Enrich your understanding of the Visual Arts
• Develop your art making skills and creativity
through different materials, techniques and
processes
• Challenge your approach to academic work
• Extend your viewpoint about how artworks are
made, valued & interpreted
• Excite your imagination

10. What career opportunities are there?
 Advertising
 Graphics &
Design
 Film & Media
 Architecture
 Visual Arts
 Art Education

11. Practical Lessons
6 out of the 8
lessons will be
practical

12. Photography, Video & Digital
Media
Year 9 & 10

13. Darkroom Photography:
Black & White

14. Digital Photography – Moving
Light

15. Digital Photography, Projection, &
Assemblage

16. Digital Photography & Video –
Gopro Underwater Unit

17. Digital Media

18. Digital
Graphics

19. Painting & Mixed
Media
Year 9 & 10

20. Spray Painting

21. Laser Cut
Stencils
&
Spray
Painting

22. Ink &
wire contours

23. Painting

24. Painting

25. Watercolour Painting

26. Drawing & Mixed
Media
Year 9 & 10

27. Charcoal Drawing - Architecture

28. Drawing and Mixed Media

29. Drawing

30. Portrait
Drawing

31. Drawing
&
Architecture

32. Pastel Drawing – Cityscape
Unit

33. Year 10
Thread Drawings

34. Felt Tip Pen & Collage

35. Sculpture &
Installation
Year 9 & 10

36. Sculpture & Installation

37. Sculptural Installation:
Wire Armature & Paper Pulp

38. Sculpture and Digital P
Sculpture: Hebel Stone

39. Cast Resin Sculptu

40. Sculpture
:
Found
Object

41. 3-D Paper Sculpture

42. Photography & Sculpture

43. Found Object Sculpture
Wax & Plaster Casts

44. Sculpture, Laser Cutter &
Architecture

45. Boxed
Assemblage

46. Printmaking
Year 9 & 10

47. Printmaking - Portraits

48. Printmaking and Stencils

49. Printmaking
Cityscape Unit

50. Theory Lessons
2 out of the 8
lessons will be
theory

51. Traditional Art History
Hieronymus Bosch
Giuseppe Arcimboldo

52. Modern Art History
Salvadore Dali,
Balla: Dog on a Leash, oil on canvas, 1912.

53. Post Modern Art History
Gormley