Sketch a bicycle. Look at lines of its parts and the positive and negative spaces within the shapes.

Found objects sculpture using 20 different items.

Brooches using card board base and found objects.

Texture/rubbing collage. Collect a variety of textures from the local environment and use them in a texture collage.

Mono-printing exploration and using various objects as drawing stimulus.

Charcoal sketching - Observational sketching of a figure.

Ink. Experiment with using different tools to apply ink to paper. Use brushes and damp paper. Examine Japanese, Chinese art and calligraphy from these cultures.

Crayon & Dye Wash. Look at illustrators who use this technique as a starting point.

Paint playing cards. Examine one. Invent a new one or reproduce one of the examples.

Matisse cut-outs. Look at examples of his work with cut-outs and make your own.

Paint you and your family as they are and as you would like them to be.

Fakes & Forgeries activity.

Alexander Calder inspired sculptures. Examine his work and use mobiles to create hanging sculptures.

Batik. Look at examples from Indonesian textiles. Examine technique and have visitors come to do workshop. Use authentic tools to produce own batik.

Make 3D models of Escher's buildings from the drawings, using white paper and black lines made with marking pens.

Draw your own hand.

Etching using heavy card coated with shellac. Students using pins to etch into shellac surface. Rub ink into the block and print onto damp heavy paper.

Georgia O'Keefe inspired flora paintings. Use her work as a starting point for student paintings. Use a selection of flowers to draw and paint.

Stencil printing. Design and make stencils. Use stencils to build up an image or repeated pattern.

Stitchery. Spend some time experimenting with different types of stitches and ways of making areas of colour using the wool and fabric. Decide which side is the front and back. Think about the sort of patterns, colours and shapes you would like to use to fill the fabric. Even draw and colour a plan. If you use lots of wool and many different colours your work will be more interesting.

Powder paint and textures. Use some of the additives: sand, sawdust, Celmix, flour with the powder paint. Use different implements to apply the paint to the paper. Experiment with different quantities of water too.

Tints and Shades colour mixing activity. How many different shades and tints can you make of the colour green. Explore that tints are made by mixing white to a colour and shades by mixing with black.

Draw a picture of something (like your bicycle or shoe) showing it from three different views on the same page.

Drawing upside down. Choose one of the photographs and draw a picture of this photograph - only turn it upside down. (This will make you look closely at what you're drawing.)

Use one of these as the basis for a painting or drawing - What if. . .it rained tennis shoes on weekends? Everyone looked the same? Animals had people for pets? You had a dragon for a next-door neighbour? Cows could fly? Picasso had painted the Last Supper? People were magnetic? Everyone lived on their own island? The oceans were made of chocolate pudding and fish lived in it that were like vegetables? Everyday at 2:00 PM gravity went haywire for twenty minutes and clothing became really strange? Nothing could be thrown away? Works of art came to life? All the art in the world was stolen by aliens? People had three arms? You lived on a planet where there were three suns and plants could move around? Children grew up in special glass containers until they are 12? The sky had holes in it that allowed you to travel to distant galaxies?

Mask making. Use papier-mâché or plaster bandages to mould them. Look at the cultural uses of masks.

Watercolour pencil sketches of flowers.

Portrait of a classmate or friend.

Look at the variety of batik sarongs. Choose one and select a portion of it to sketch in detail. Colour your sketch using paint.

Still Life - Ink and colour Wash   - Using black ink on white paper children draw the objects in the still life. Use colour wash to add colour to ink drawing.

Fantastic Shoes - Children bring an old shoe or boot to school to turn into a fantastic creation for wearing on the feet. Use a range of materials to make the shoe truly amazing but still able to be worn.

Individual projects: This can take any form you like and you may use any medium or a mixture of media. The work must be based on a theme you have chosen and be a series of work. So over the term it is expected that you would produce 5 or 6 pieces of work all based on the theme you have chosen. Try to express an idea, concept, convey a message or make the images your response to something you feel strongly about. Themes: A good place to start is to choose an emotion or feeling and make images that show this emotion. For example: love, hate, fear, patriotism etc. Choose an issue to use as a theme. For example: poverty, war, environmental issues, political events/issues, crime, animal cruelty, human rights. Use topic as your theme. For example: trees, landscapes, animals, money, fire, peace, death, space, machines.

Photography unit. Investigate famous photographers and make a poster about one.

Pointillism unit. Look at the work of Georges Seurat. Use marking pens to create a pointillist image.  

Architecture unit. Examine famous buildings and architects. Make a website.

Mixing green. How many different shades and tints of green can you make? Use them in a painting of the leaves.

Movement sculptures. List all the different types of human movement. Use wire and papier-mâché to make a sculpture that expresses movement.

Examine the work of Rene Magritte. Look at some of the ways he changed things in his surrealist paintings. Use some of these ideas to create your own painting.

Examine the collage work of artist Jeannie Baker through her many books. Collect natural objects to make a landscape collage.

Photocopy or scan your face and use this as the basis for a drawing using pencil.

Look at the work of a range of sculptors. Look at examples of sculptors who have carved from blocks of stone etc. Students make a sketch of the faces of their block ten carve to produce a sculpture of a human form.

Examine the work of Andy Warhol and look at the images that feature products. From a selection of products, student draw outline drawing of shapes in pencil. Photocopy multiple copies and paint them in different colour combinations. Combine them to make a montage.

Photographic manipulation. Take several digital images. Choose one and use Adobe and the various tools to make multiple variations of it. Use in a montage.

Pencil sketch of musical instruments. List all the changes of state that could happen to it. Draw one version realistically; another in a changed state. E.g. melting, exploding, twisted etc.

Look at artists and their self-portraits through the slide show about portraiture.

Use a mirror to draw a self-portrait.

Examine the work of potters; focus on the Sasak potters by looking at the slide presentation. Have some potters visit to show some techniques used in producing the traditional pots. Make some pots using local clay.

Examine traditional weaving techniques. Use paper weaving to see how technique works. Have local weavers come in to demonstrate back-strap loom weaving as is produced in Sumbawa, Indonesia. Use cardboard looms, wool, scraps and found objects to produce weavings.

Relief printing. Examine examples of artists who produce relief prints. Experiment with a small block to see how technique works. Do a design for a larger block.

Silkscreen printing. Examine examples of prints. Look at technique. Produce a torn paper stencil print. Do a design for a multicolour print (limiting to 4 or 5 colours only).

Broken picture. Choose a colour picture from a magazine and cut it up into many smaller pieces. Rearrange it on a piece of paper and glue it down. Reproduce the new picture by drawing and colouring.

Make clay tiles by impressing objects into the tile and building onto the surface to make an interesting tile.

Still life painting. Students observe closely and paint the whole still life using acrylic paint. Focus on mixing the colours to reproduce those seen in the objects.

Examine the art elements through the slide show about them and the poster series, which focuses on each one.

Draw and paint your dream bedroom.

Watercolour experimentation. Explore the pencils and watercolours by using both dry and wet paper. Look at the work of traditional watercolourists. What are some of the features you can observe from these paintings? Visit a landscape and sketch in preparation for adding watercolour.

What is art for? Pose this question and elicit responses. View the slideshow about what art is for.

Look at oil paints and paintings produced using this medium. Look at different styles and techniques. Set up a still life and use a canvas with a coloured ground, sepia outlined drawing to produce the painting.

Enlarge very small objects by drawing them very large using pencils.

Sketch and paint the Rajastani puppets.

Draw the Indian camel-hide shoes by using black and white water-soluble pencils.

Examine the techniques of making pinch pots, coil pot and building using slab techniques and slip.

Sketch the pumpkin using chalk pastes and black paper.

Draw a really large realistic self-portrait then another one the same size changed dramatically. E.g. colours, style, distortion, type of line, etc.

Design and make a hat or glasses to make you think like an artist. Refer to art elements. Reflect on how many and how they were used in your hat or glasses.

Examine a famous portrait & research about it. Present the information on a poster.

Copy a famous painting: Matisse - Harmony In Red.

Portrait of classmate.

Self portrait using flesh colour coloured pencils.

Look at examples of stained glass windows. Design one using crayons and black outlines.

Transfer onto black card and cut out shapes. Stick cellophane or coloured tissue onto cut out areas.

Explore Paul Klee's paintings and look at some of the ways he used lines, shapes and colours. Experiment with some of the ideas: For example draw lines with black randomly on the paper and fill in the spaces left with areas of colour.

Use Fimo to make jewellery. Look at the work of contemporary jewellery makers using this medium (polymer clay).

Examine contemporary art through slide show featuring contemporary artists. (See Topics page)

Murals: Look at examples of public murals around the world. Design and paint one in the school.

Tissue paper collage: Look at the work of Patricia Mullens in Crocodile Beat. Use as a starting point for a collage using torn tissue paper.

Unfinished pictures - stick a small patch from a picture out of a magazine onto a larger sheet. Continue the image by drawing in lines and colouring; matching both the lines and colours.

Shells: Use the watercolour pencils to sketch a shell or a collection of them. Enlarge them.

Look at Van Gogh's paintings and observe the directional lines. Experiment with black textas making a drawing that uses repeated directional lines to show form.

Experiment with different types of line: long/short, wavy/straight/curly, swirling/zigzag etc.

Circle doodles: Fill in a circular area with dots and lines only.

Look at Picasso's cubist portraits. Observe how they break areas into plane shapes, flatten perspective, show two viewpoints and use unrealistic colour. Draw your own portrait using these 4 things.

Self-portraits using non-preferred hand, mouth, feet to draw with.

Explore all the tones possible with a 6B pencil. Examine how shading suggests form and shape. Invent an imaginary, impossible landscape and draw with 6B pencil. Look at some of Escher's drawings as a starting point