FB S4.4 Don't Look STUDENT WORKBOOK

Don’t Look – Student Workbook

The Don’t Look Student Workbook is a thoughtfully designed learning companion that guides Stage 4 Visual Arts students through an engaging exploration of optical illusions, tessellations, and visual perception. Blending creative tasks, structured theory, and opportunities for faith-based reflection, this workbook supports students in understanding how pattern, symmetry, colour, and mathematics work together to create visual impact. Students are encouraged to see creativity, order, and design as reflections of God’s intentionality in the world.

Throughout the workbook, students study the work of contemporary Japanese artist Akiyoshi Kitaoka, analysing how his Op Art illusions use mathematical precision, repetition, and movement to influence audience perception. Inspired by these ideas, students develop their own illusion artworks, experimenting with geometry, colour theory, and pattern creation.

What’s Inside:

Faith-Connected Reflections:
Short reflection prompts and discussion questions encourage students to consider how “People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” - 1 Samuel 16:7

Artmaking Activities:
Step-by-step tasks that guide students through drawing exercises, pattern construction, tessellation design and illusion-building techniques. Scaffolded templates and models support students at various ability levels.

Artist Case Study:
A structured study of Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s practice, with comprehension questions, analysis scaffolds, and guided notes that help students understand how visual elements create perceptual effects.

Super Six & TEEL Supports:
Built-in literacy scaffolds including Super Six comprehension strategies and TEEL paragraph frameworks that empower students to write confidently about their own artworks and the work of others.

Critical and Historical Studies:
Activities that guide students through the Structural viewpoint and the concepts of Artist, Artwork, World, and Audience, helping them analyse how mathematics and design principles influence perception.

Checkpoints & Self-Assessment:
Success criteria, check-ins, and reflection sections help students monitor their progress and take ownership of their learning.

Designed to accompany the Don’t Look Teacher Resource, Scope and Sequence, and Program, this workbook provides a complete, faith-infused learning experience. The Don’t Look Student Workbook equips students to grow creatively, technically, academically, and spiritually discovering how the beauty of order and design in art reflects a purposeful and creative God.