AC9AVA6C01 Years 5 to 6 The Arts

Content descriptor use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to plan and create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning

Elaborations

• • Elaboration applying their understanding of visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that are both robust and communicate intended aesthetic qualities; for example, using a range of joining techniques to create a sculptural construction using cardboard and textiles, or carefully considering the use of joining techniques in creating an environmental sculpture using natural materials designed to break down and disintegrate over time
• • Elaboration using visual conventions and visual arts processes to communicate ideas and meaning in their artwork; for example, exploring the ways that different brushstrokes can communicate meaning in a painting, such as long, smooth horizontal blended lines in a watercolour wash contrasted with textural brushstrokes with thick paint in contrasting colour
• • Elaboration examining a series of diverse artworks that employ frames, windows, mirrors or sections as containers or portals into space, and using this tool as inspiration to create three versions or ideas for an artwork; for example, creating different sized frames to view the world around them and creating compositions for artworks, considering how they can include frames within frames
• • Elaboration trying and testing a range of analog visual arts materials, such as paints, drawing materials or clay, and comparing virtual simulations of these materials; entering their findings in a logbook and using findings to create an artwork that combines at least one virtual material and one analog material
• • Elaboration creating artworks that are the product of ideas they have developed through experimentation and planning; making choices about how to use visual art conventions, materials and techniques that best communicate their intentions
• • Elaboration forming modular patterns, images or letters with grid paper or an online digital system to combine glyphs, pixels and shapes; for example, removing the grid and transforming it to another form such as a poster or template for printmaking