Year 7

Autumn:

Ways of Drawing

Introductory workshops in drawing and mark making in different media. 

Exploring the formal elements

Pattern and Culture

Patterns and designing sculpture

Papier mâché sculpture outcome

Spring:

Pattern and Culture completed.

Self-portraits 

Identity, mixed media self portraits

Portraiture, symbolism

Drawing self-portraits. 

A3 mixed media self portrait outcome

Summer:

Still life and Pop art

Drawing and painting, observational studies,

A3 still life outcome

Year 8

Autumn:

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt, coil pots, clay, ceramic, sculpture

Coil pot outcome

Spring:

Printmaking 

Responding to the urban environment

Printmaking techniques: mono printing, relief printing, stencil printing, collagraph

Two colour linocut outcome

Summer:

Colour and Mood

Architecture, landscape, colour theory, abstraction

Mixed media

A3 painting outcome

Year 9

Autumn:

Portrait and Pattern 

Portraiture

layering, drawing and painting from a grid

A3 portrait drawing outcome 

Spring:

Batik

Natural forms

Wax resist

A3 batik painting outcome

Summer:

Language and Art 

Text-based art

Experiments in sketchbook as outcome