Creative Arts – Visual Arts
Program overview
Students will gain a deeper understanding of how to create interesting and engaging artworks using nature as their guide. Using the Elements and Principles of Art, students will develop a rich source of ideas to create and appreciate both art and nature.
Key syllabus outcomes
Students:
- represent the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter (CA-VAS2.1)
- use the forms to suggest the qualities of subject (CA-VAS2.2)
- acknowledge that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible (CA-VAS2.3)
- identify connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciate the use of particular techniques (CA-VAS2.4)
Learning experiences
Ephemeral art & journal
Students are guided on a nature walk where they observe their surrounding environments. They identify art elements such as form, texture, contrast, symmetry, pattern and how they can be found in nature. Students select and collect objects they find along the path before discussing the work of ephemeral artists such as Andy Goldsworthy. Afterwards students create and photograph their own ephemeral art.
Throughout the bushwalk, students create a nature journal through a range of activities, such as sketching and shadow drawing.
Print making
Students print leaves and other natural materials onto various surfaces. They experiment with other techniques such as leaf rubbings. Each student creates and takes home a canvas bag.
Program feedback
"In science we are looking at plants and pollinators, so focusing on plants was beautifully connected."
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