Art at Michaela
Year 7 Art Curriculum at Michaela
UNIT 1: CORE SKILLS AND COLOUR THEORY
- Concepts: Form, tone, texture, colour theory
- Methods and techniques:Grid, co-ordinates, view finder, mark-making
- Media: 2B pencil, chalk and charcoal
Art history: Story of Art, Ancient & Medieval art
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UNIT 2: LANDSCAPES
- Concepts: Perspective, structures of a landscape, composition
- Methods and techniques:Application and techniques of painting, tints, tones, shades
- Media: 2B pencil, colouring pencils, oil pastel, pen, ready mixed paints
Art history: Impressionism and post-Impressionism
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UNIT 3: STILL LIFE
- Concepts: Composition, symbolism, scale, form
- Methods and techniques:Enlarging, reducing, collage, observational drawing
- Media: 2B pencil, pen, paint, paper
Art history: Dutch Golden Age, Michael Craig Martin,
Year 8 Art Curriculum at Michaela
UNIT 1: NATURAL FORMS
- Concepts:Scale, form, tone, texture,
- Methods and techniques:Grid, co-ordinates, view finder, mark-making, observational drawing
- Media: 2B pencil, chalk & charcoal, oil pastel, water colour paint
Art history: Story of Art (definitions), Abstract art, American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe
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UNIT 2: CUBISM
- Concepts: Composition, analytic, synthetic, harmonizing, contrasting
- Methods and techniques:Collage, blending, fragmenting, constructing
- Media: 2B pencil, colouring pencil, collage, chalk and charcoal
Art history: Cubism, Pablo Picasso
Year 9 Art Curriculum at Michaela
UNIT 1: THE BODY
- Concepts:Proportions of the body, features, movement
- Methods and techniques:Observational drawing
- Media: 2B pencil, chalk and charcoal, pen, watercolour paint
Art history: Story of Art (definitions) recap, Leonardo da Vinci
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UNIT 2: SURREALISM
- Concepts: Composition, perspective, juxtaposing, repetition, distortion
- Methods and techniques:Photoshop skills, development of ideas, exploration and experimentation of media to suit ideas.
- Media: Photshop Pro, 2B pencil, colouring pencil, acrylic paint
Art history: Dada, Surrealism, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte
Key Stage 4 Art Curriculum
UNIT 1: PORTRAITS
- Concepts: Portraiture, self-portrait, symbolism, symmetry
- Methods and techniques:Grid, tone, texture, colour mixing, observational drawing
- Media: 2B pencil, chalk & charcoal, water colour paint
Art history: Frida Kahlo, Romanesque & Gothic
UNIT 2 Mock Exam
UNIT 3: Externally set exam
Pupils build on the skills secured in KS3 and work independently and creatively to produce a final portfolio and prepare for the final exam.
The GCSE is comprised of 6 units
- Observational drawing
- Photoshop compositions
- Me, Myself and I / Identity
- Critical and contextual
- Mock exam (old AQA paper)
- Externally set exam (AQA)
If you would like to find out more about the Art curriculum, please email info@mcsbrent.co.uk