ARC :: Visual Arts – Activities

Visual Arts – Activities

Activities		Work Samples
Activities		End of Stage 4 (end of Year 8)
Still Life Relief Prints	Students explore the conventions of the representation of still life and block printing techniques to make a two or three colour lino print. View...	5
Ceramic Heads	Students explore a range of ceramic techniques with a focus on handbuilding and surface decoration to make a three-dimensional portrait in clay. View...	3
Portrait in Words - Collage Work	Students make a 'non-traditional' portrait of themselves by tearing or cutting up their personal signs and symbols and rearranging and reconstructing these pieces onto a new background. View...	2
History Revisited - Artmaking	Students make a digital work based on a selected portrait or figurative artwork from the past and images of their world. View...	2
History Revisited - Critical and Historical studies	Students use the postmodern frame to write an explanation of Zahalka's practice and the cultural frame to comment on how the role of women role is represented in the artwork, 'The Bathers' (1989). View...	2
Self-portrait with pet	Students explore painting techniques and the conventions of portraiture to make a self-portrait with a pet. View...	2
Small-scale sculptures	Students undertake a structural frame investigation of the language of signs and symbols to plan and make a small sculpture. View...