Semester 2

Art Curriculum Breakdown

Year 7:
Art room rules, safety and cleaning responsibilities. Semester overview.
Elements and principals of art samples in sketch books 1 fortnight (5 periods
per class)
Egyptian Art telling a story. Students make long strips that tell the progression
of a story it can be a short story they have read, their own story or a made up
story (no movie rip-offs) medium: pencil, pen and markers -3 fortnights (15
periods per class)
Ancient ruin art creating a simple symbol in relief by building up texture on a
piece of cardboard; this is then covered in PVA glue and covered with sand, then
left to dry to create an ancient ruin brick - 1 fortnights (5 periods per class)
Egyptian art theory and test one double per class
One point perspective: using technical drawing skills and tools to draw a room in
one point perspective with a checkerboard effect. Students then write their name
on the back wall of their room in a graphic art style. 2 fortnights (10 periods per
class)
Two point perspective: Watch video on two point perspective. View images of
interiors and exteriors draw in two point perspective. Students plan for and
create an image using two point perspective, they pay attention to detail and
neatly shade their piece using a light source to make it look realistic. 3
fortnights (15 periods per class)
Clay: Students make a clay Christmas tree ornament begin at the start of term
4 so there is time for them to be fired twice. Do over 4 weeks, only 2 separate
periods needed per class. Complete at the same time as one point perspective.

Year 8:
Art-room rules and responsibilities, assessments for the semester, using sketch
books. 1 session
Chinese art: Looking at china ceramics and the painting techniques on them.
Students make a small vase or bowl form white clay. This is biske fired; while
waiting for the firing, students design the image they will put on their piece in
their sketch books, this must be inspired by the blue china painting style.
Students paint their pieces white, and then paint their blue or purple Chinese
inspired scene on them. The pieces are glazed and left to dry before being fired
again. 3-4 weeks

Review of elements and principals of art. Discuss the students use of their
sketch book. Each fortnight they must find at least one thing that has inspired
them something they have seen, heard, read, thought and represent it through
a sketch, collage, decorative design, or writing (written pieces should still show
artistic inspiration and would be best as an addition to an image)
1 week
Aboriginal Art: View bush medicine leaves artworks and discuss the use of
colour, brush-stroke and movement. Students plan for their own bush medicine
leaves painting using acrylic paint on black canvas. 4 weeks (10 periods)
Watercolour: Introduction to watercolour students create a sunset image using
a watercolour wash, once this is dry they use fine liners to draw a silhouette in
front of the sunset this could be trees, buildings, animals, people etc. 2-3 weeks
Renaissance art portraits in a setting 6 weeks
Christmas decorations: Hessian stars or hearts with Christmas words stencilled
on. Two pieces stitch around the edges with stuffing between 2 weeks
Year 9
Lighting: light decides what we see and how we see it. Excursion to a black box
theatre space; a guest speaker to give a demonstration of using light at different
angles to create different moods. Students use their phones as light in the black
space to create different feeling/moods. During the break students sketch out
their thoughts and ideas for an artwork that uses a very deliberate light source.
one day
Contrast: based on their excursion and inspiration into the power and importance
of light, students create an A2 image using black oil pastel. They may choose to
bring some colour into their piece and may also choose to do the image on a
coloured card instead of white. 4 weeks (2 double lessons per class)
Ceramics: making windmill Christmas Tree ornaments from clay one period.
Painting and glazing one period (separate weeks)
Modern Portraiture bold and loud! View images of portraits using acrylic paint in
a bold and colourful way. Analyse images based on the elements and principals
of art. Students reflect on the sort of self-portrait they want to do what do they
want to portray about themselves. Homework: Students must take a photo of
themselves/ have someone take it for them to use as their reference image. They
must have it printed by their next class in order to start marking out and
painting. Acrylic on canvas. 4 double periods per class including introduction
lesson (overlap with ceramics) 8 weeks in total
Perspective: A foggy day students plan for and create images that show
perspective and depth by layering detailed cuts of paper with tracing paper
between each layer. If students wish to they can buy a cheap A4 frame to display

their work in. Students may choose to begin their piece with a watercolour
painting as the background. 3 double period each 6 weeks in total.
Extension activities: decorative rendering pages

Year 10: Do I have the same group or a new group?

Same group Yr 10: charcoal sketching, landscape (possibly an excursion,
across the road to the park) 2 weeks
Watercolour: illustration for a childrens story book. Theory: watercolour
techniques. -4 weeks
Ceramics: making clay bowls with a decoupage layer inside, theory on Greek
pottery. 2 weeks
Sculpture: using recycled, shredded paper and wire to make unique sculptures.
Theory: sculpture through the ages. 4 weeks
Technical drawing: building design floor plan, front elevation, side elevation,
artists interpretation sketch. Theory: careers in graphic art and building design
6 weeks
Or Movement Pen sketches
Test one week.
New group Yr 10:
Art-room rules and responsibilities/ Course and assessment outline/ Using sketch
books. 1 week
Mosaics: history of mosaics, processes involved. Students design an image by
using small pieces of pre-cut paper. They design their mosaic and draw out the
image on their board. (2 weeks) Students glue down pre-broken tiles according to
their design. They only use a small amount of glue at any time and dont cover
too much of their space in glue in case they dont get up to that space before the
glue dries (2 weeks) Next students grout and clean their mosaic (1 week) then
they polish and display them (1 week) - 6 weeks in total
Art appreciation: Impressionist and post-impressionist art movements. 1 week
Movement in art: Pen sketches A2 4 weeks
Sculpture: using recycled, shredded paper and wire to make unique sculptures.
Theory: sculpture through the ages. 4 weeks

Theory test 1 week

Christmas decoration designing a unique snowflake
Extension: Charcoal sketching, landscape (possibly an excursion, across the road
to the park) 2 weeks