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WS01 - Nature in pastels

Visual Arts, Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students explain the use of elements, concepts and/or conventions in arts works they create and/or experience. They describe how the arts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts. They describe how the arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures.

 

Students use subject-specific knowledge, elements, concepts, conventions, materials, skills and/or processes to create arts works that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They demonstrate safe practices. They present and perform their arts works in formal and/or informal settings.

By the end of Year 6, students explain the ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are used in artworks they create and/or experience. They describe how artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They describe how visual arts are used to continue and revitalise cultures. Students develop and document ideas for their own artworks. 

 

They select and use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They present documentation and artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives or meaning in informal and/or formal settings.

Exploring and responding

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explore ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in visual arts across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Exploring and responding

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explore ways that First Nations Australians use visual arts to continue and revitalise cultures

Developing practices and skills

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experiment with, document and reflect on ways to use a range of visual conventions, visual arts processes, and materials

Creating and making

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use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to plan and create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Presenting and performing

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select and present documentation of visual arts practice, and display artworks in informal and/or formal settings

This work sample artefact contains the name of an Aboriginal person who has passed. 

Annotations

 

1. Identifies a First Nations Australian artist and artwork, and the context in which the artwork was created. 

 

2. Explores how the artist has communicated meaning in the subject matter. 

 

3. Develops and documents ideas of their own artwork. 

 

4. Explores visual conventions including colour and composition. 

Annotations

 

1. Documents compositional ideas for their own artwork.

 

2. Experiments with a range of visual arts processes (including blending and layering) in using oil pastels to convey intention. See also annotation 3.

3. Experiments with a range of visual arts processes (including blending and layering) in using oil pastels to convey intention. See also annotation 2.

Annotations

 

1. Uses visual conventions and visual arts processes to communicate ideas.

 

2. Uses a range of oil pastel processes including blending, sgraffito (a decorative technique that involves scratching through a top layer to reveal a colour underneath) and layering to create texture and tone.

Annotations

 

1. Presents documentation of practice to display with the artwork.

 

2. Demonstrates understanding of composition including layout and the rule of thirds.

 

3. Explains the use of visual arts processes with oil pastels.

 

4. Evaluates own composition and aspects of successful blending of colour.

 

5. Reflects on choices of visual arts processes and overcoming challenges.