Each student who enrolls into Art 10 is required to take Module 1 and 6 and choose two more modules. Modules 1 and 6 provide a foundation in drawing and design and the remaining modules offer an introduction and basic understanding to the module topic.
Students taking Visual Art 10 should contact DESK for module options.
All students do Modules 1 and 6.
Module 1: Drawing
Section 1: Making a start
Section 2: Movement
Section 3: Contour drawing
Section 4: Finishing touches
Module 2: Design
Section 1: The filling of given spaces
Section 2: Graphic design
Section 3: Using what we know
Section 4: Design in architecture
Module 3: Painting with Acrylics
Section 1: Getting started
Section 2: Colour, composition, and unity
Section 3: Through thick and thin
Section 4: Variations on a theme
Module 4: Printmaking
Section 1: Planographic printing
Section 2: Relief printing methods
Section 3: Intaglio methods
Section 4: Stencil printing
Module 5: Photography
Section 1: About cameras
Section 2: All about lighting
Section 3: How to improve your photographs
Section 4: Fun with your camera
Module 6: Theme and Image
Students utilize skills learned throughout the course to
explore these four themes, completing four projects from a
wide variety of suggestions.
Section 1: Simplification
Section 2: Elaboration
Section 3: Selection
Section 4: Juxtaposition
Module 7: Art From Many Lands
Section 1: Mosaics
Section 2: Masks
Section 3: Working with clay
Section 4: Your choice of projects
Module 8: How to Look at Art
This module is considerably more academic than the others
in this course. Only students who do reasonably well in
English and Social Studies should take this module.
Section 1: Voice of fire: good buy or bad?
Section 2: Looking at landscape
Section 3: Anti-war cries
Section 4: The Abstract Expressionist