Kaiapoi High School Kaiapoi High School

Level 2 Painting and Printmaking

L2ARPN
Course Description

Head of Faculty/Teacher in Charge: Mx R. Goldstein, Mr B. Morrison.

Recommended Prior Learning

To be accepted for this course, students should have earned 14 credits from Level 1 Visual Art, or have received HOF approval.

This is a very practical, hands-on course.  Students will choose painting or printmaking and will develop their ideas and themes over the year, in consultation with the teacher. These are based on the student's interests. 

Students will be challenged to explore their relationship with pictorial space, surface, risk-taking, and possibilities, and to take inspiration from established artists’ ideas, methods, and techniques. 

Opportunities arise each year for students to publicly exhibit their work and enter competitions. 


Course Overview

What is taught in courses varies from year to year. This course could include:
The course starts with drawing revision and different exercises to challenge your ways of working.
The course progresses with each student choosing the styles, themes, and subject-matter they want to work with for the year. There is a lot of experimentation and risk taking, and trying out different methods and techniques.

Painting explores observational drawing, collage, found materials, underpainting or deadpainting, and sometimes three-dimensional work.
Paint can poured, scraped, splattered, blended, matched, layered, glazed and carved back. Students will learn acrylic and oil painting processes, and methods to vary production.

Printmaking involves exploring observational drawing, mono-printing, woodcuts, collage, found material prints, and sometimes three-dimensional work.
Students will learn Akua printmaking processes like intaglio and relief printmaking methods to vary production. Students can also use traditional waterbased printing inks and explore layered methods or reduction printmaking and Chine collé.


Faculties:

The Arts


Assessment Information

There are two internal assignments available to students, worth 4 credits each. Students can choose to complete one or both at the same time.
There is one portfolio exam worth 12 credits, which is produced throughout the year.

Pathway

Level 3 Painting and Printmaking

Career Pathways

Artist, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Artistic Director, Tattoo Artist, Interior Designer, Jeweller, Make-up Artist, Curator



			
					
					Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
										
1x 6B pencil

1x fine line black pen

1x A4 spiral visual diary 50 leaves.

										

								


				





    

        
Disclaimer

        
Please note that courses will go ahead only if student numbers, staffing, and timetabling allow it.  Where a subject is oversubscribed, and there are insufficient numbers or resources to create an extra class, a ballot system may be applied.  
Costs
KHS aims to deliver educational courses over and above that which is funded by the Ministry, however parental contribution for the costs of trips and activities where participation is optional, and/or components not covered by the Government grant may be requested, and we appreciate the financial support our families make to the School.