Art & Photography

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 Photography

In GCSE photography you are assessed on 4 main criteria: Research and contextual investigations, experimentation, recording of ideas and presenting a final piece. 

The GCSE is made up of two components.

Component 1:

1. Natural forms
2. Portraiture & Disguise

Component 2: Externally set exam