The S1 and S2 Art and Design courses enable you to explore and extend a wide variety of skills using different media, and based on a range of topics and themes.

Aims:

• To promote an enquiring, critical and observational approach to the study and practice of art.
• To introduce you to the challenging and varied nature of art, and to the ways in which this can be tackled through a variety of media.
• To help you explore your environment through observational drawing using a variety of media.
• To encourage you to give an individual and emotional response to art and design briefs.
• To enable you to draw, paint, and work in three dimensions to encourage your skills of seeing and manual dexterity.

Objectives:

To select and present effective and well-observed visual information in an organised manner and
show an understanding of:

• line, tone, form, rhythm and composition in drawing;
• colour and colour mixing;
• application of paint, pastel and printmaking;
• mixed-media exploration;
• 3D form and composition using various media such as clay, card and modroc;
• analysis of artists and designers, showing their styles of work and the movements to which they belong, and how they can be influential in the development of your own work;
• evaluation on the basis of argument and discussion, and the creation of and practising of art and design.