VCE ART/PAINTING, UNIT 1, OUTCOME 2

SET TASK: The practical work for Unit 1 encourages you to explore and develop your own ways of making art.
First Project (Making Task 1)
Your first project will be to create an artwork on the basis of, initially, your own intuition. Apart from doing this
project as a way of exploring the use of a range of art media and techniques, it is also designed to identify your
own innate ways of working your intuitive preferences for colour schemes, techniques and ways of
composing.
1. Find one page that appeals to your eye in a National Geographic magazine Try not to think too much
about this, just respond and go with your own preferences in terms of colour, pattern, shape, text and
composition.
2. Scan your page and open in Photoshop. Crop and manipulate your page until you feel that you have a
composition that is visually interesting to you it has a certain visual impact and coherence (feels right
to you). This could mean that you create a picture or it may mean that your composition is based upon
the abstract elements of line, tone, colour, texture, pattern, balance etc. When you document this
process in your sketchbook you will have to be able to justify your composition in terms of the ways in
which you see it as going together to create a visual order/coherence/impact.
3. When you are satisfied with your composition, reproduce it in another medium (see examples in Powerpoint documents).
4. For example, you could recreate it as a painting in oils, acrylic, gouache or watercolour; or as a solar
plate etching or linocut, or as a silkscreen print Your choice of medium must be appropriate to your
composition and you will need to justify your decisions.
5. As you reproduce your composition, you may alter and develop it as you go, but you must be able to
justify this development.
6. Take sequential photos of the this artwork as you develop/ create it.
7. When you have completed this work, scan your new composition and open it in Photoshop again.
8. Repeat steps 2 to 5.
9. In your visual diary, document and annotate the development of your First Project. This must include a
final stage in which, from your work produced in Project 1, you analyse what you see as some of your
innate artistic preferences. See example on Power-point.
Second Project : Making Task 2 (Projects 2)
This project will be to create collage which will become a self-portrait. You will create this in two stages; one a
collage created from random mono-prints and the second a merging of your collage with a photograph of
yourself.

First, create a series of mono-prints and random patterns on scraps of paper. Try not to think too much
about this, just respond and go with your own preferences in terms of colour and composition.

Now, on a sheet of A3 paper, arrange your mono-prints into a portrait. Your finished artwork need not be
correctly proportioned or anatomically accurate, but should be recognisable as portrait. As you develop
your artwork, try to concentrate on the expression of mood, feeling and character more than correctness
or creating an accurate likeness. When it is finished, you should be able to explain how your collage
expresses a particular mood or feeling.

In your visual diary, document and annotate the development of your second artwork, in the same way as
you did for your first. Use the example Powerpoint for Project One as a guide to the documentation of
Project Two; the principles of documentation and annotation are the same.

Third Project (Project 3)

From the artworks that you have produced in Projects 1 to 3, choose one image/composition that you would
like to develop further in an alternative medium. This artwork is entirely up to you in terms of the way you
approach and develop it, but you must document the process of its development in your visual diary in the
same way as for Projects 1 to 3.
Folio presentation
First Project

Documentation and annotation of all work from the first project, using the example documentation in the
Power-point as a guide. Include sequential photos of the development/creation of your two artworks.
Second Project

All of the stages in developing your collage, including sequential photos as you develop your collage.
Critique of the finished portrait collage to explain how you see it expressing a particular mood or idea. You
should be able to explain this with reference to your use of media, techniques and formal elements.

The meaningful annotation of your thinking and working practices throughout the folio
An example of bad annotation is to write: The blue is effective in this drawing.
An example of good annotation is to write: The blue is effective in this drawing because it creates the
sense of space and airiness that I was trying to achieve. The shape of the blue area also implies a window
or open doorway, which adds to that sense of space within the composition.
Include a short, critical evaluation of your finished artwork(at the end)

Third Project
Evidence of the exploration and experimentation with formal elements such as line, tone, colour, form,
shape and composition
Evidence of the exploration and experimentation with a range of media and techniques
Evidence of the refinement of your ideas and use of formal elements, media and techniques towards the
expression of a specific mood or idea in your finished painting.
The meaningful annotation of your thinking and working practices throughout the folio
Include a short, critical evaluation of your painting (at the end)
Due Date: End of week prior to exams.