Curriculum Overview Art and Design The Art Department at Wickersley boasts an array of high quality work from students at all Key Stages. Our aim is to prepare students for success from the time when they enter Y7 right through to Y13. As such our curriculum is both supportive and challenging while giving students every opportunity to develop creatively and independently. We teach a wide variety of skills and techniques in both 2D and 3D media. Students work from all key stages is permanently on display throughout the department in classrooms, corridors and in the gallery where we display work to motivate and enthuse students and help them aspire to the next level. As such, students are always aware of their own development in relation to assessment and final outcomes. All students are taught Art once a week in Y7, and they opt to study the subject in 8 and 9, with one lesson a week. As an option subject at GCSE and A Level, students follow the Fine Art syllabus from AQA. Y10 and 11 students have 2 lessons a week while Y12 and Y13 students have 4. We run Art clubs after school for KS3 in addition to supportive workshop sessions after school for all KS4 and 5 students. The atmosphere in the department is, purposeful, busy, proactive and positive with students who enjoy their studies and teachers who are well motivated and keen to see students develop into independent and accomplished. Y7 The Year 7 Art schemes of work, focus on introducing Y7 to a wide range of materials and creative making techniques while developing the fundamental 1
Fine Art skills needed for high quality results. Students explore Art History while developing work in response to such as Picasso, Cezanne, Hundertwasser, Kandinsky, Paolozzi, Andrea Joseph, the cultural meanings linked to Aboriginal Art. The different projects are listed below: Half Term 1 Half Term 2 Half Term 3 Half Term 4 Half Term 5 Half Term 6 PORTRAITS Picasso Oil Pastels and collage Facial Proportion. Distortion. Colour mixing and blending. Collage. A3 or A2 portraits PAINTING TECHNIQUES Cezanne. Pencil colour pencil, Paint. and painting. Composition Still Life Use of brushes controlling paint. Painting with palette knives OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING TECHNIQUES Lisa Milroy Pencils pens, ink. Proportion. Mark making Study sheet based shoes drawn from observation and research PAINTING PRINTMAKING AND COLLAGE Aboriginal Art. Pencil paint. Interpreting messages and meanings. Cultural meanings reflected in Art. Dot painting techniques using a variety of equipment Aboriginal dot painting 3D AND CERAMICS Kandinsky music Paolozzi Abstract Art Clay glazes. Pencils. Clay equipment and tools. Drawing in response to music use of abstract shapes to create compositions - focal point and balanced. 3D carving joining building. Properties of clay. COLLAGE Hundertwasser Collage Pencils Paint Oil Pastels Political Art. Campaigning for Green rights. Landscape based on cakes and sweets 2
SPORT- COMPOSITION Still life Painting telling a story of their choice. 1 2D designs based on music. using Hundertwasser s style relating to London Olympics 2 3D Glazed Clay Tile Oil Pastels and collage Observational drawing Depth 3 parts of Composition Composition of objects relating to sport with an expressive back ground 3
Y8 The Year 8 Art schemes of work, focus on developing the skills learnt in Y7. Students building on their knowledge and understanding to refine their skills and produce exciting but sophisticated outcomes. Students continue to explore Art History while developing work in response to such as African and Tribal Art., James Rosenquist American Pop Art. Contemporary ceramic artists such as James Rosenquist American Pop Art. Mimi Matelot Ceramics based on Sea Life. Illustrators such as Quentin Blake and Lauren Child. The different projects are listed below: Half Term 1 2D TRIBAL MASKS and small 3D prototypes Half Term 2 3D TRIBAL MASKS Half Term 3 AMERICAN POP ART. Half Term 4 AMERICAN POP ART. Half Term 5 3D CERAMICS Half Term 6 DRAWING TECHNIQUES ILLUSTRATION : African and Tribal Art Pencil, Colour Pencil, Card, newspaper, and sugar paper, : African and Tribal Art Card. Newspaper, tissue and sugar paper, Paint. Collage James Rosenquist Oil Pastels. Pencils Paints American Pop Art Collage mixed media Mimi Matelot Pencils pens, Collage Clay Glazes Quentin Blake and Lauren Child, Beatrix Potter. Pencil paint pens, inks paint. 4
Facial Proportion. Drawing.. Colour mixing and blending. 3D making techniques Tribal pattern and decoration s 2D Tribal Art study sheets 2D Design ideas 3D Tribal maquettes Colour mixing and blending. 3D making techniques Collage. Tribal pattern and decoration Large scale 3D Tribal Masks Proportion. Tone and Shade of personal objects. E.g. make up or a trophy. James Rosenquist artists study sheet Drawings using different techniques Proportion. Tone and Shade Working from secondary images and primary images Composition Final piece using different techniques and composition combining work from Rosenquist / secondary / primary and own ideas responses Proportion. Mark making 3D claywork Glazing techniques 1 Study sheet based on Ceramic research. 2 Shells study page drawn from observation. 3 Glazed ceramic tile or pot based on Sea Life and research above Composition Water colour painting Ink control Project development Design for a page in a children s book illustrating the story. 5
Y9 Students follow schemes of work that closely reflect the work completed for our Fine Art GCSE course. This allows them to develop their skills using a variety of media while also responding to artists research. The projects include, Natural forms, Urban Environments, Expressive Portraiture and a Sweet Tooth project. Students develop drawings and paintings using different techniques and work in styles that reflect contemporary as well as historical methods. This develops their creativity and expression while refining their technical skill. The different projects are listed below: Half Term 1 Half Term 2 Half Term 3 Half Term 4 Half Term 5 Half Term 6 Drawing skills and mixed media Painting Skills influenced by Urban Environments.Personal Objects Painting and Printmaking Food Expressive Portraiture Kark Blossfeldt used: Grey scale pencil Coloured Pencil Oil Pastel Artist: Marcia Baldwin Paint ready mixed and Acrylic. Artist Eva Folks Paul Kenton Lisa Borgiani Ink Artist: Andrea Jospeh Pencils Artist: Wayne Theibaud and Vic Vicini Pencils : Louise Jover and Giacometti : Pencil 6
Observational drawing Working from secondary images Tonal blending and shading to show 3D form Mark making to show surface textures sheets in sketchbook showing 3 studies in the different materials Shells Pen Inks Cocktail sticks Wax Water colour paint Shape and form Highlights and lowlights Markmaking to show texture GCSE style study sheet in sketchbook showing studies in the different materials Paint and brush control s Paintings of animals based on those by Artist Marica Baldwin. Subject matter: Shells Pen Inks Cocktail sticks Wax Water colour paint Shape and form Highlights and lowlights Markmaking to show texture s sheet in sketchbook Drawing sticks Cardboard PVA Paint Perspective Tone Paint and brush control Printing Line and texture Colour mixing Mark making s sheet in sketchbook showing studies. A range of urban drawings, paintings and prints in response to the different techniques Pens Water colour own objects. Drawing from secondary and research. s sheet in sketchbook showing studies in the different materials Pens Watercolour Printmaking Drawing and Painting from research Printmaking s sheets in sketchbook showing studies in the different materials Pen Paint Collage Chalk Charcoal : Proportion Expressive mark making Illustration Collage and mixed media techniques s Expressive Portraits with links to poems or song lyrics using techniques inspired by different artists. 7
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