Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

This course caters for students with an ability in Art who want to pursue the subject further and possibly into a career. It encourages students to develop skills, creativity, imagination and independence based on personal experience, taught skills and critical understanding. Students show this through their responses to a range of stimuli. The course allows students freedom to experiment and take risks with their work whilst developing their own style and a deep understanding of their own work and the work of others. During this course, students will develop technical competence and self-expression in: Perspective and Proportion; Composition; Colour and Tonal Contrast; The Natural Form, Life Study; Form Analysis; and Surface Decoration. Media will include: collage; monoprints; photomontage; block and screen printing; watercolour; posters; oil and acrylic painting; oil crayon and oil pastel; ink; charcoal; wax; colour pencil; clay; plaster of Paris; modroc; wire and metal; papier maché.