5th Year PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA

Mount St. Michael Secondary School

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Linking the UoL in research and response to Today’s World Content Area 3, Unit 14: Artistic Processes and Media;
Students will study the practice of a number of artists to expand on their understanding of artistic processes and media in relation to portraiture to create a self portrait inspired by their response to the theme of, ‘The Artist’, building on their understanding of drawing, painting, photography and mixed media skills and techniques.

 

Learning Outcomes

RESEARCH STRAND
1.1 Looking - identify the sources that support the development of their work.
1.2 Recording and documenting - record visual information through a variety of media and techniques.
1.3 Experimenting and interpretation - discriminate and extrapolate information from research.
- produce an annotated visual record of their enquiry.
- experiment with ideas, media and techniques.
 

CREATE STRAND
2.1 Making - apply appropriate skills, knowledge and techniques.
2.2 Contextual enquiries - translate their experience of Visual Studies into their practical work.
2.3 Process - create a selection of drawings, studies and realised work.
- understand the properties of media and apply them appropriately.
 

RESPOND STRAND
3.4 Critical and personal reflection - value sustained and varied investigation of a stimulus.
3.5 Process - respond to a selection of drawings, studies and realised work.