Stage 3 Visual Arts resources

This page provides a selection of units of work for Stage 3 Visual Arts

Mapping a place - Unit overview

Students investigate ways of mapping a place using symbols. They discuss how artists have represented their environment in paintings and public sculptures. The students document their ideas in research drawings then develop concepts into sculptures. The students also consider how concepts are represented differently in drawing and sculpture.

Unit of work - Mapping a place (pdf - 129kb)

Evoking the environment - Unit overview

Evoking the Environment Visual Arts unit

Students investigate ways of evoking the environment, using observation and recording as a basis for an expressive interpretation. They look at how artists have represented their environment in expressive ways. From their own environment, they document ideas in research drawings and then develop concepts into paintings and weavings.

Unit of work - Evoking the environment (pdf - 129kb)

Steel, stacks and steam - Unit overview

Students refer to industrial sites and structures as stimulus for artmaking. Students use drawing to document the site and paintings, printmaking and mixed media works to develop the idea or concept. Students investigate built structures in the school environment and make artworks based on the investigations.

Unit of work - Steel, stacks and steam (pdf - 129kb)

My identity - Unit overview

Students explore their own identity in an artwork. They seek inspiration in self-portraits by Australian painters who include symbols of their identity. Students combine drawing, painting, collage and printing in a mixed media artwork, discovering how artworks can be built up through layering images.

Unit of work - My identity (pdf - 129kb)

Face it - Unit overview

Students investigate the representation of the face in traditional and theatrical masks, considering how exaggeration and distortion of facial features creates expression that has meaning for an audience. They make drawings of faces, emphasising exaggeration and distortion and use these drawings as a reference for making a ceramic mask. They also make digital portraits and use photo-enhancing software to manipulate images to exaggerate expression.

Unit of work - Face it (pdf - 129kb)

Still life with lute - Unit overview

Students explore the aesthetic potential of musical instruments as subject matter in artworks. They refer to artists who represent musical instruments in still life artworks. Beginning with exploratory drawings, students progress to digital forms and paintings.

Unit of work - Still life with lute (pdf - 129kb)

Significant events - Unit overview

Students look at artworks that record and interpret Australian history. They discuss how artists create points of view in the way subject matter is organised and how colour and texture has been used. The students make drawings, prints and paintings that represent historical events and Australian icons.

Unit of work - Significant events (pdf - 129kb)

Unreal - Unit overview

Students consider how artists represent ideas and feelings in abstract artworks through the use of symbols.Students develop their own symbols in response to dream images. They experiment with layering techniques in painting, drawing and fibre media.

Unit of work - Unreal (pdf - 129kb)