Drawing in the Gallery

Key competencies Using languages symbols and texts
Curriculum strands Visual arts: Developing practical knowledge, developing ideas
Achievement objectives Visual Arts: Level 1-2: Explore a variety of drawing materials and tools to discover elements of drawing and principles of drawing. Use drawing to investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations; observation and imagination. Level 3-4: Explore and use drawing conventions applying knowledge of elements of drawing and principles of drawing. Develop and re-visit visual ideas through drawing in response to a variety of motivations; observation and imagination, supported by the study of artist’s works. Level 5-6: Apply knowledge of selected drawing conventions using appropriate processes and procedures. Generate, develop, and refine ideas through drawing in response to a variety of motivations, including the study of established drawing practice. Level 7-8: Extend and refine drawing skills in a range of materials, techniques and technologies, for particular art making purposes. Generate, analyse, clarify and extend ideas through drawing in response to a selected question or proposal.

Programme Content Students will:

  • Engage in an introduction to exhibitions including information about artists, art styles, art work themes, art making techniques and any cross curricular themes.
  • Respond to what they see articulating their own ideas, thoughts, feelings, and interpretations of the art works.
  • Participate in individual and/or group drawing activities designed in response to the exhibition’s themes and content.
  • Activities may focus on: types of mark making & different materials, drawing styles, drawing processes, drawing content, drawing’s purposes, formal elements of drawing – (line, tone, pattern, contrast, composition, focus, perspective, scale).
  • Draw to explore and develop ideas while experimenting with a variety of drawing materials techniques and processes inspired by the exhibited art work.
  • Present and respond to their own and other’s drawings and compare and contrast their own work to the exhibited work that inspired it, noting similarities and differences.