Subject Overview

Content

• Primary colors (light, dark)
• Shapes in everyday objects
• Natural lines seen in everyday objects
• Contrast: light/dark
• Textures of objects
• Elements of design in artworks to communicate feelings
• Composition, using principles of design to create narrative artworks
• Two- and three-dimensional works of art that express feelings and ideas inspired by personal experiences
• Feelings and ideas about works of art

Skills

• Cutting
• Drawing / Sketching: pencil, wax crayon, and pastels
• Connecting (glue, tape, etc.)
• Painting techniques with tempera and watercolors
• Modelling: clay and wire

Content

• Elements of art
• Browser card and name tag design with a focus on font, color, and shape
• City landscape with a focus on value and space
• Fruit face collage and leaf art: art with natural materials and elements
• Lantern for St. Martin’s day
• Pinatas for festival
• Home and transportation craft: different types of home and/or transportation with cardboard and other materials
• Force in art: different types of force-related art
• Product packing design
• Landscape observational drawing

Skills

• Self-organizing skills: following instruction and cleaning routine
• Drawing skills: drawing with pencil/pastel/marker
• Painting skills: painting with various materials (watercolor, tempera color, etc.)
• Craftsmanship: using different tools and materials to create crafts
• Construction skills: using various tools/strategies to attach and construct different materials

Content

• Facial proportion and self-portrait
• Pop art and its elements
• Abstract art
• Lantern for St. Martin’s day
• Elements of art, with a strong focus on lines, shapes, color, value, and texture
• Ancient art: Austrian aboriginal art
• Animal drawing
• Different habitats in a small space (shoe box)
• Science in art: special art techniques like wax resistant, glue, and salt art, etc.

Skills

• Drawing skills: drawing with pencil/pastel/marker
• Painting skills: painting with various materials (watercolor, tempera color, etc.)
• Planning skills: planning independently or with a partner, communicating/recording the plan in visual form
• Craftsmanship: using different tools and materials to create crafts
• Construction skills: using various tools/strategies to attach and construct different materials

Content

• Elements of Art
• Principles of Design
• Space/sky/galaxy with chalk pastel
• Poster/visual advertisement creation
• Ancient symbols and symbol design
• Stage background/props/costume creation
• Ancient Egyptian art
• Recycling and upcycling art
• Optical Illusion art

Skills

• Drawing skills: drawing with pencil/pastel/marker as well as chalk pastel
• Painting skills: painting with various materials (watercolor, tempera color, etc.)
• Planning skills: planning independently or with a partner, communicating/recording the plan in visual form
• Craftsmanship: using different tools and materials to create handmade products such as poster cards, wall decorations, etc.
• Construction skills: using various tools/strategies to attach and construct different materials

Content

• Principles of Design
• Digital Art: digital comic/animated video to reflect human rights/responsibilities
• Pen art: fiber pen art to capture the movement and present a natural disaster
• Lego self-portrait: cultural self-portrait as a Lego person
• Cultural art: various artistic styles from different cultures
• 3D sketch and one-point perspective
• Installation art: large installation art with recycled materials
• Migration art: poster to reflect self-migration history

Skills

• Drawing skills: drawing with pencil/pastel/marker
• Painting skills: painting with various materials (watercolor, tempera color, etc.)
• Printmaking skills: using poly boards and rollers to create printing art
• Planning skills: planning independently or with a partner, communicating/recording the plan in visual form
• Craftsmanship: using different tools and materials to create crafts
• Construction skills: using various tools/strategies to attach and construct different material

Content

• Surrealism and various ways to express our feelings/thoughts through art
• Rule of mechanism, wooden models design and creation with tools and materials from maker space
• Two-point perspective drawing and multi-view design sketch
• Film making: Claymation video creation with self-edited stories and self-made clay models
• Reflective art: artistic piece that reflects the research findings and personal action

Skills

• Drawing skills: skillfully drawing with various media and different drawing techniques
• Painting skills: painting with various materials (watercolor, tempera color) using different painting techniques
• Planning skills: planning independently or with a partner, communicating/recording the plan in visual form with clear details and outcomes
• Shaping skills: using clay/papier-mâché to shape forms and create sculptures
• Craftsmanship: using more advanced tools and materials to create crafts
• Construction skills: using various tools/strategies to attach and construct different materials

Content

• Colour theory
• Artists: Hokusai, Van Gogh, Hundertwasser, Escher, Jean Tinguely
• Art forms: Collage, graphite rubbings, line and mark making landscapes, West-African Masks
• Keywords: Foreground, middle-ground, background, bird’s eye view, dashed, curved, spikey, straight, rough, smooth, shading, highlight, stripes, parallel, horizontal, one point perspective, observation, form, texture

Skills

• Drawing still life
• Line and mark making techniques
• Collagraph printing
• Clay modelling, glazing
• Patterns and Tessellation
• Collage
• Drawing techniques
• Drawing from life (inside and outside)

Content

• Decorative maps
• Marine ecosystems
• Artists: Grayson Perry, Van Gogh, Matrakci Nasuh, Kathy Prendergast
• Colour theory
• Art forms: Collage, line and mark making maps, paper mache and wire sculpture
• Keywords: Form, texture, implied texture, shape, pattern, gradient, armature, primary source, secondary source, animal categories: reptile, mammal, crustacean, arthropod, fish

Skills

• Drawing from life
• Continuous line drawing
• Line and mark making techniques
• Collage
• Paper mache sculpture
• Watercolour painting
• Clay modelling, glazing
• Patterns
• Drawing techniques – line drawing, applying shadows and highlights to describe 3D form

Content

Skills

• Creating compositions with a viewfinder, reduction lino printing
• Drawing from life
• Continuous line drawing
• Line and mark making techniques
• Linear perspective – one- and two-point perspective
• Acrylic painting techniques
• Drawing techniques – line drawing, applying shadows and highlights to describe 3D form

Content

• Collage juxtaposition
• Investigation into the work of artists
• Formal analysis of artwork using elements and principles
• Surrealist assemblage
• Artists: Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Joseph Cornell, Neo-Rauch, Jeremy Deller, Andy Warhol, Banksy

Skills

• Screen printing techniques: merging photos using Photoshop, transforming into acetate stencils, cutting acetate stencils, flooding screen, pulling print, off-set register, proof print, textured paper
• Assemblage techniques including: Clay / 3D techniques
• Pencil and coloured pencil drawing; collage
• Acrylic painting techniques including: photographic composition techniques; manipulating colours on Photoshop; enlarging images using a grid; identifying contour lines, mixing colours, applying paint
• Drawing from life
• Continuous line drawing
• Drawing techniques – line drawing, applying shadows and highlights to describe 3D form