Senior Yrs 11–13 NCEA Level 1
AR1002 (AS90914v1)
Introduction
What you will do
You will:
- draw to generate and develop your ideas
- use artist models to guide the style of your work
- use drawing and painting processes, procedures, materials and techniques to produce a body of work
- select and organise your best pieces of work for submission.
There are three tasks within AR1002:
- Task 1: Draw forms from Māori carving in various media
- Task 2: Draw from different viewpoints in a range of media
- Task 3: Draw to combine different subject matter with wet and dry media
These are set out in the AR1002 study plan.
You will work towards the Visual Art Achievement Standard 1.2, 90914 version 1, 4 credits.
This Achievement Standard requires you to:
- use drawing as the main way to generate and develop ideas
- use art processes, materials and techniques from suitable artist models to produce a series of drawings.
Your work must demonstrate your ability to:
- use wet and dry media with control
- accurately record information from subject matter
- use a range of drawing and painting techniques
- create effective compositions.
For more information refer to the current achievements standards on the NZQA website or you can download a copy using the following link:
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/nqfdocs/ncea-resource/achievements/2011/as90914.pdf
Assessment conditions
- This must be your own work. You may refer to any part of the resources to help you do it.
- In your final submission you may use any of the work you have completed from any of the four tasks.
- There is no time limit for this activity.
- Print out the cover sheet from the PDF file and sign it to verify that the work is your own.
- You are required to send your work to your teacher for feedback once you complete each of the four tasks.
- Each task has a minimum quantity of work that you must complete. You can attempt tasks more than once in order to demonstrate a higher level of skill.
- Read each task completely before starting on your work. Look carefully at the examples in the gallery and at your chosen artist models.
- This assessment will take about 50 hours.
- For definitions of various art terms see the glossary.
- When you see this tip icon there is something extra to note.

Art materials
You will need the following equipment:
Paper:
- A3 cartridge paper (42 cm x 29.7 cm).
Drawing materials:
- pencils (2B, 4B, 6B)
- pencils (2B, 4B and 6B)
- Pitt charcoal
- white crayon
- black crayon
- one coloured crayon, either red, green, blue or brown
- oil pastels
- one broad and one fine brush and water (it helps to have a flat edged brush for creating controlled shapes and lines and also a small point brush for fine details)
- acrylic paint – tubes of yellow, white, red, blue, black
- Indian ink and a nib pen or fine black felt pen (optional)
- fixative or hairspray (optional, but useful for preventing soft pencil and charcoal from smudging).
Other materials and tools:
- PVA
- a rubber/ eraser
- a ruler
- an old plate to mix colours on
- paper towels
- a board as large as your paper (optional, but useful for supporting your paper as you work).
What’s next?
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