PS S4 Foundations OF Visual Arts

Foundations of Visual Arts – Student Workbook (Stage 4)

The Foundations of Visual Arts Student Workbook is a comprehensive, all-in-one learning resource designed to support students through an entire year of the Stage 4 Visual Arts curriculum.

This beautifully structured workbook combines four complete units in one book, providing everything students need to develop a foundation in Visual Arts across a full teaching cycle.

Designed to last an entire teaching year, four terms, this workbook creates clear learning pathways through artmaking and critical thinking, while aligning fully with the NSW Visual Arts Syllabus (2024).

Included Units:

Bugs with Watercolour (Lino Printmaking)
A captivating exploration of colour theory and printmaking, with a fun and creative focus on bugs as the subject matter. This resource provides a step-by-step approach to understanding how colour, line, composition, and meaning in art.

Interior Perspectives (Drawing)
Interior Perspectives is designed to support students in mastering the fundamentals of one-point perspective drawing while building skills in creativity, critical thinking, and visual storytelling. This unit breaks down the artistic process into manageable steps, guiding students from initial concept through to a completed interior space artwork that explores mood and atmosphere using watercolour.

Handle With Care (Sculpture)
A creative and reflective unit designed to help Stage 4 students explore the theme of public and private identity. This resource guides students through activities that encourage self-expression, critical thinking, and hands-on artmaking. Students will investigate the contemporary artist Gillian Wearing, whose work explores how people present themselves to the world compared to who they are in private. Drawing inspiration from her practice, students will design and create their own cardboard letterbox sculpture as a metaphor for how they express themself publicly versus privately.

Don’t Look (Op Art)
A thoughtfully designed learning companion that guides students through an engaging exploration of optical illusions, tessellations, and visual perception. Blending creative tasks, structured theory, and hands-on activities, this workbook supports students in understanding how pattern, symmetry, colour, and mathematics work together to create visual impact. Throughout the unit, 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

Key Features:

• ✅ Fully aligned to the NSW Visual Arts Syllabus (2024)

• ✅ Embedded 8 Ways Aboriginal Pedagogy

• ✅ Explicit use of NESA verbs to strengthen curriculum language

• ✅ Integrated Super Six comprehension strategies to support visual literacy

• ✅ Scaffolded tasks to support all learners

• ✅ Clear visual examples and structured learning sequences

• ✅ Built-in reflection and evaluation activities

The Foundations of Visual Arts Student Workbook provides students with strong creative foundations while giving teachers a clear, reliable structure for delivery. It builds skills, confidence and visual thinking across a diverse range of contemporary and traditional art practices — all in one powerful resource.

Perfect for Year 7 and Year 8 Visual Arts classrooms.

Aligns perfectly to The Bee-All and End-All Pack