Level 1 Excellence Example: This portfolio presents outstanding evidence

to meet the criteria consistent with The New

Zealand Curriculum, Learning Media, Ministry

of Education, 2007, relating to the following

strands in Visual Arts, Level 6: Understanding

the Arts in Context; Developing Practical

Knowledge; Developing Ideas; Communicating

and Interpreting.

This sample demonstrates a high level of

fluency in the handling of a range of media.

Observational pencil drawings lead into

scraffito, which are then appropriately

transferred into beautifully executed woodcut

prints and paintings.

Ideas have been developed through the

combining and layering of these media

studies, contrasting tone and colour to pull

the viewer’s eye to focal areas. A clarification

of ideas is clearly seen in the decision to

simplify each arrangement by restricting the

detail in the negative spaces.

Each work has been carefully selected to show

a systematic approach in the development of

ideas from printmaking to painting