AVI3M online course enables students to further develop their knowledge and skills in visual arts. Students in AVI3M will use the creative process to explore a wide range of themes through studio work that may include drawing, painting, sculpting, and printmaking, as well as the creation of collage, multimedia works, and works using emerging technologies. Students will use the critical analysis process when evaluating their own work and the work of others. AVI3M online course may be delivered as a comprehensive program or through a program focused on a particular art form (e.g., photography, video, computer graphics, information design).
Course curriculum
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The step before AVI4M
Grade 11 is where the creative process and critical analysis process become habits. AVI3M is the prerequisite for AVI4M, and the portfolio you start here carries into Grade 12 and post-secondary applications.
Four studio pieces, four media
A landscape painting, a figure drawing, a nature sculpture and a mixed-media work, each preceded by sketchbook planning and followed by a written reflection and a conversation with your teacher.
Look at art the way artists do
The elements and principles of design, correct terminology, and the critical analysis process applied to your own work and to artists from different cultures and periods.
A portfolio, not just a mark
Unit 5 is a final piece, a professional portfolio documenting your growth, and a written reflection and oral interview: the culminating task worth 15% of the grade, alongside a 10% written exam.
AVI3M Course outline
Full unit-by-unit breakdown.
Learn the elements and principles of design and the vocabulary artists use to talk about them, work through the creative process from planning and experimenting to revising, survey careers and local and global opportunities in visual arts, and paint a landscape in watercolour or acrylic.
Key topics
Elements and principles of design · art terminology and conventions · the creative process · careers in visual arts · watercolour and acrylic painting
Assessed by
Elements and Principles quiz · landscape painting
Draw the human form through gesture and contour drawing and a range of mark-making techniques, and begin analysing your own work and the work of others, including the challenges artists face and how those challenges shape artistic development.
Key topics
Gesture drawing · contour drawing · mark making · the human form · beginning critical analysis
Assessed by
Figure drawing piece · conversation and written reflection
Work in three dimensions with additive and subtractive sculpture techniques, explore how media and structure change a work’s meaning, create a nature art piece from environmental materials, and continue the critical analysis of your own and others’ work.
Key topics
Additive and subtractive sculpture · 3D form · media and structure · nature art · responsible material practices
Assessed by
Nature art sculpture · conversation and written reflection
Combine 2D and 3D techniques in a single mixed-media piece, study why artists choose a mixed-media approach, and examine how the presentation of a work shapes the audience’s experience of it.
Key topics
Mixed-media techniques · combining 2D and 3D · purpose and audience · presentation and display
Assessed by
Mixed-media piece · conversation and written reflection
Apply every technique from the course to a final piece on a topic you choose, assemble a professional portfolio documenting your growth as an artist, and analyse the challenges you faced in a written reflection and an oral interview with your teacher.
Key topics
Final art piece · professional portfolio · written reflection · oral interview
Assessed by
Culminating task: final piece, portfolio and reflection (15%)
