Level 3 Painting
L3PAI Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Mrs A. Keene-Harris.
Why Study Painting?
Level three painting is a chance to explore your ideas in the medium of painting alone. However, you can work in a number of ways in this field; traditional (acrylic, watercolours, oils or a mixture) or digital painting. Drawing is a starting point, but you can achieve that in a number of ways too - photocopier methods, frottage, monoprinting, along with pencil or charcoal.
Art Painting is a University Entrance course. That means 14 credits earned here will be one-third of your main university course credit requirements covered. If you are good at it, then it is sensible to use it to help you gain that extra qualification layer.
Drawing, painting and art making in general train the eye through the hand. It is a completely different part of the brain that is activated and developed when you apply yourself to making art, and it unlocks potential we didn't know existed as a creative maker.
Who can study painting?
Anyone. It is a fairly open entry. It is useful to have level one Art, but not necessary. You must want to make art to do this course.
Course Overview
Term 1
Developing your kaupapa - what is your painting theme this year? We have four categories that you brainstorm against to develop this. You will learn specific techniques in painting using watercolors, oils, acrylics and digital practices. You will work on 3.1 (research) and 3.2 (using compositional and technical principles) simultaneously over term one. All work must be documented on your blog.
Term 2
During term two, you begin to develop the rest of the items you will need to fulfill your kaupapa. Your practical work will be geared towards achieving 3.3 this term (4 internal credits).
Term 3
During this term, you are putting your own body of work together using techniques and inspiration from your artists. You will start with an artist statement/proposition looking into you subject matter and how you are going to present your final body of work. You will also start to develop a portfolio booklet to showcase your work looking into design principles of book design (3.5). A mixture of techniques and composition are expected here in order to complete 3.3 (four internal credits) along with all planning pages. All work must be documented on your blog.
Term 4
By the end of week two of this term, your booklet will be ready to print for 3.5 (4 internal credits). It will highlight your best work from the year and clearly demonstrate the Kaupapa with skills you have learned. Following this, you will have an opportunity to resubmit for your internals if you missed out on them during the course of the year. All work must be documented on your blog.
Assessment Policy & Procedures Career Pathways
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