Typography – Drawn and Digital

• Exploring historic and contemporary graphic designers who incorporate typography into their work.
• Working digitally using a combination of short cuts, e.g. (ctrl x). layering, grouping, duplicating and altering opacity to create an interesting typographic design.

Christmas Card

• Fine brush work skills to create a clean design featuring pattern. Watercolours and inks..

Post Expressionism - Abstract Landscape

• Explore another genre compared to impressionism to draw comparisons and opinions thus deepening their understanding of the complexities to painting. In this project they are being
• Consider the composition and learning how to discuss their intentions behind the choices made.
• Isolate shapes within a detailed scene.
• Use a viewfinder to select a scene and create several studies as evidence.
• Exploring the work of other artists/cultures informing their painting
• Use pencils and pastels to focus on blending, and experimentation with mark making using pressure and different techniques.

Expressionism – Mono Printing (Stone Age - Cave Art)

• Discuss the purpose of an image and discuss why Expressionism could be considered important.
• Explore the German Expressionists.
• New techniques will be introduced for printing.
• Rolling ink thinly, drawing a reverse image and considering the way printing ink behaves such as imperfections.
• Explore lines, marks and tones through mono-printing on a variety of papers to create an image.

Neo Expressionism

• Draw inspiration from Stone Age cave art and contemporary artists such as Basquiat,
• Create strikingly vibrant and busy paintings full of symbolism and an emotional reaction to the world around them.
• Carefully follow a process using a variety of brush strokes and brush sizes, mixed media and different techniques to achieve fun and effective outcomes.

Collagraph Printing

• Create a Collagraph design exploring images and recreate textures in a collagraph print using corrugated card, string, press print for example.
• Continuing learning about expressionism and distorting the human features by exaggerating.
• Reflect upon work completed with a critical understanding using technical vocabulary – annotating work.

Photography Through the Ages Including Pin-Hole and Re-Inventing Painting

• Link their artistic learning to their historical project (local history)
• Plan and take photographs to provide content to be cut and pasted / superimposed into other photographic images.
• Collaborate and use a video camera and editing software to pre-produce, film and edit a short sequence of narrative film.

Human & Animal Eyes. Observing how Animals Perceive the World. Looking at Own Eyes.

• Observational drawing with a pencil, adding fine detail and shading techniques.
• Take a closer look at the human form and how to apply small details effectively.

Eyes Within Cultural Symbolism.

• Look at symbolism and art from other cultures to broaden their understanding and encourages their appreciation of the wider world.