Kaiapoi High School

Level 2 Painting and Printmaking

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.