Visual Arts Level 1 Internal Assessment Resource

Internal assessment resource Visual Arts 1.2B v3 for Achievement Standard 90914

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Internal Assessment Resource

Visual Arts Level 1

This resource supports assessment against:
Achievement Standard 90914 version 3
Use drawing methods and skills for recording information using wet and dry media
Resource title: Mixed Media Montage
4 credits
This resource:
· Clarifies the requirements of the standard
· Supports good assessment practice
· Should be subjected to the school’s usual assessment quality assurance process
· Should be modified to make the context relevant to students in their school environment and ensure that submitted evidence is authentic
Date version published by Ministry of Education / February 2015 Version 3
To support internal assessment from 2015
Quality assurance status / These materials have been quality assured by NZQA.
NZQA Approved number A-A-02-2015-90914-02-4664
Authenticity of evidence / Teachers must manage authenticity for any assessment from a public source, because students may have access to the assessment schedule or student exemplar material.
Using this assessment resource without modification may mean that students’ work is not authentic. The teacher may need to change figures, measurements or data sources or set a different context or topic to be investigated or a different text to read or perform.

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Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Visual Arts 90914: Use drawing methods and skills for recording information using wet and dry media

Resource reference: Visual Arts 1.2B v3

Resource title: Mixed Media Montage

Credits: 4

Teacher guidelines

The following guidelines are supplied to enable teachers to carry out valid and consistent assessment using this internal assessment resource.

Teachers need to be very familiar with the outcome being assessed by Achievement Standard Visual Arts 90914. The achievement criteria and the explanatory notes contain information, definitions, and requirements that are crucial when interpreting the standard and assessing students against it.

Context/setting

This assessment activity requires students to record information relating to a specific context using a range of wet and dry media, and to use the recorded information to produce three mixed media works.

The activity provides a clearly structured framework for assessing a student’s methods and skills using a context around the theme of food. Before using the activity, you will need to select or negotiate a context (for example, still life, figure, portrait, landscape) that will engage your students, and work out exactly how the framework will be applied to this context.

The students’ work should show their ability to use drawing processes to record information using both wet and dry media. In addition to this, the final works produced by the students should be informed by established practice and show an understanding of how to arrange art elements (such as line, point, tone, texture, colour, form or mass, shape, and space) in agreement with principles (such as balance, harmony, rhythm, tension, and contrast).

Works produced in response to this assessment resource could be further developed (through the development of several additional works following the mixed media montages) and used to provide evidence for Achievement Standard 90915.

Conditions

This assessment activity should take place over approximately six weeks of in- and out-of-class time.

Resource requirements

Students are asked to collect a range of two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual resource material. Depending on the needs of your students, you may wish to provide a range of items to supplement the materials they collect.

Students will need access to a range of wet and dry media and tools, along with a selection of appropriate papers for use with these media.

Additional information

None.

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Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Visual Arts 90914: Use drawing methods and skills for recording information using wet and dry media

Resource reference: Visual Arts 1.2B v3

Resource title: Mixed Media Montage

Credits: 4

Achievement / Achievement with Merit / Achievement with Excellence /
Use drawing methods and skills for recording information using wet and dry media. / Use drawing methods and skills with control for recording information using wet and dry media. / Use drawing methods and skills with facility for recording information using wet and dry media.

Student instructions

Introduction

This assessment task requires you to produce a series of wet and dry art works and mixed media montages that are food related. You will record information using quick drawings and observational drawings and then use this information to produce your mixed media montages.

You will be assessed on your use of both wet and dry media to record information, for example, the extent to which you capture basic structural relationships, proportions, and the appearance of the food or food-related items.

You have teacher to insert time frame here weeks of in- and out-of-class time in which to individually complete this assessment.

Task

Choose a food-related theme, for example, fish, land-based animals, honey, or vegetables. You can also include objects and environments associated with food, or rituals of eating and food preparation from a natural, cultural, or mechanical point of view. Your work could include different states of the same product, from the farm to the plate and the stages in between.

Research your theme and collect images and objects that relate to it. These will be the subject matter for your wet and dry works.

· Three-dimensional (3-D) resource material could include food items, such as fruit and vegetables, and objects related to cooking and eating, such as kitchen utensils.
· Two-dimensional (2-D) resource material could include photographs, drawings, and cut-out images.

Examples of food ideas include:

· food and industry (product design, logos, and the technology of production)

· the nostalgia of cooking

· food and nature

· farming

· New Zealand heritage (Kiwiana)

· market gardening

· tools of the trade (from gardens and farms to kitchens)

· hunting and gathering.

Use a variety of wet and dry media to record information about the objects and images. Your final works need to show an understanding of formal elements (line, point, tone, texture, colour, form or mass, shape, and space). Consider also pictorial principles (balance, harmony, rhythm, tension, and contrast).

· Use photography to record approximately 20 images of objects and areas that relate to your theme (for example, farming tools and the field in which the food is growing)

- Elements: balance, harmony, depth, contrast, tone, light, surface quality

- Artist models: Josef Sudek, Paul Outerbridge, Joachim Froese, Irving Penn (still-life work)

· Use graphite pencil to make 2–3 A4-size or larger observational drawings of objects relevant to your theme (for example, food preparation utensils, food items)

- Elements: perspective, line, shading, tone, volume, texture, pattern

- Artist models: Albrecht Dürer, Henry Moore

· Use pen to make 2–3 A4-size or larger drawings of objects relevant to your theme

Teacher note: These could be observational drawings of the items suggested above or refinements (where students begin to consider rearrangement of the drawn objects to improve their composition and so on in preparation for the next task) of the photographic and pencil drawings.

- Elements: perspective, line, hatching, pattern

- Artist model: Alberto Giacometti

· Make a monochromatic A3-size still-life painting of 3–5 objects relevant to your theme using only tints and shades of one colour (monochrome) of acrylic paint.

- Elements: volume, tone, form, mass, surface quality, blending, texture

- Artist models: Giorgio Morandi, Avigdor Arikha

· Make an A3-size drawing of 3–5 objects relevant to your theme using a combination of ink wash and black pen.

- Elements: tone, volume, texture, line, contrast, space

- Artist model: Chinese brush painting

· Make an A4-size drawing of the still-life objects using sgraffito techniques (scratching through a layer of wet paint to reveal the colour underneath).

- Elements: line, rhythm, pattern, texture

- Artist model: Heywood Sumner

· Make mixed media drawings of your selected objects in a still-life composition on three A3-size pages. Work from a variety of viewpoints (for example, from eye level and from above and below eye level). When creating your drawings, you should consider form, viewpoint, and scale, and the volume, surface, and texture of the objects selected.

- Elements: colour, tone, texture, line, form, space, balance, harmony, contrast

- Artist models: Jim Dine, Larry Rivers.

Upon completion, hand in the body of work you have created.

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Assessment schedule: Visual Arts 90914 Mixed Media Montage

Evidence/Judgements for Achievement / Evidence/Judgements for Achievement with Merit / Evidence/Judgements for Achievement with Excellence
The student uses drawing methods and skills for recording information using wet and dry media.
The student presents images appropriate to the theme using a range of wet and dry media:
· 5–10 quick charcoal drawings
· 5–10 quick ink drawings
· A4 pencil observation drawings
· A4 ink observation drawing
· A3 mixed-media drawing
Images are recorded from a range of sources.
The work shows the ability to manage media to produce images appropriate to the theme to create a range of art works.
For example:
The student uses texture and line with both wet and dry media to produce images of food that look similar to the food they selected.
Drawings attempt to differentiate tonal and surface qualities and record spatial relationships. / The student uses drawing methods and skills with control for recording information using wet and dry media.
The student presents images appropriate to the theme using a range of wet and dry media.
· 5–10 quick charcoal drawings
· 5–10 quick ink drawings
· A4 pencil observation drawings
· A4 ink observation drawing
· A3 mixed-media drawing
Images are recorded from a range of sources.
The work shows the ability to manage media with evidence of art-making intention to produce images appropriate to the theme to create a range of art works.
For example:
The student uses textures, thick and thin line, contrast, and form with both wet and dry media to produce images of food that approach an accurate likeness of the food they selected.
Drawings record differentiated surface textures (rough, smooth, dark, light, patterns).
Drawings indicate spatial relationships between foreground and background using overlapping and perspective (although this may not be entirely consistent). / The student uses drawing methods and skills with facility for recording information using wet and dry media.
The student presents images appropriate to the theme using a range of wet and dry media.
· 5–10 quick charcoal drawings
· 5–10 quick ink drawings
· A4 pencil observation drawings
· A4 ink observation drawing
· A3 mixed-media drawing
Images are recorded from a range of sources.
The work shows the ability to manage media with easy and ready control to produce images appropriate to the theme to create a range of art works.
For example:
The student uses textures, thick and thin line, contrast, and form with both wet and dry media to produce images of food that have an accurate likeness to the food they selected and include particular visual details of the subject.
Drawings accurately record specific unique aspects of each object, such as surface cracks, blemishes, and other fine details.
Spatial relationships between all objects are convincingly recorded using tone, placement, and consistent perspective devices.

Final grades will be decided using professional judgement based on a holistic examination of the evidence provided against the criteria in the Achievement Standard.

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