Visual arts / Year 7 and 8

• TLF-IDM021324

This federated search from the QAGOMA database features a selection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks from the collection. The searchable database provides artwork images, background information about the artist and the artwork, a map of major Indigenous regions in Australia, classroom activities, a glossary ...

• TLF-IDM013198

This is a PDF resource that focuses on the theme of water in Australian artworks, featuring 15 different artworks using various mediums. Each page includes an image, description and context of the artwork, and information about the artist, as well as specific focus questions or key statements that prompt a response to the ...

• TLF-IDM013013

This is a set of instructions that can be used to create an illustrated haiku - a form of traditional Japanese poetry. The resource includes seven written steps and a downloadable set of illustrated instructions to further support the written instructions. The resource also includes a list of materials required to complete ...

• TLF-IDM013199

This is a PDF resource that focuses on the life and artworks of South Australian modernist artist Margaret Preston (1875-1963), profiling nine of Preston's artworks that investigate various influences and techniques used in her art. Based on an exhibition that showed in major cities across Australia, the artworks are presented ...

• TLF-IDM013074

This is a free application for the iPad and iPhone that focuses on sculpting three-dimensional images from a library of objects and figures. It feature: a range of manipulation tools; a library of textures; various paint tools; a colour palette that can add shades, tints and hues; the ability to import images from a personal ...

• TLF-IDM013072

This is a free application for the iPad that focuses on creating drawings and sketches using virtual professional-grade tools and brushes, and imaging techniques. It features a full-screen workspace and an 11-icon menu including pan and zoom navigation, a brush editor, colour wheels with HSB and RBG colour space, an eye-dropper ...

• TLF-IDS6438

This resource for teachers is a visual arts unit that leads to a resolved two-dimensional self-portrait on paper. The unit combines the techniques of drawing and painting and explores the concept of a personal environment. It is in four parts: exploring examples of portraits by artists across history; developing line-drawn ...

• TLF-IDM019567

Teachers can explore the diverse range of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal visual arts through this unique online resource portal. Investigate the work of peak Aboriginal arts corporations, protocols and online collections of some of Australia’s leading cultural institutions.

• TLF-IDM012865

This is a resource about Warlpiri artist Michael Jagamarra Nelson. It revolves around a video clip, showing him painting and explaining the meaning and significance of his work in terms of his Country and its Dreamings and the need for the Dreamings to be passed on. The last part of the soundtrack features a narrator describing ...

• TLF-IDL3627

Explore a city and create a design using objects found in a café, kiosk, gutter and dumpster bin. Plan a design to communicate a message. Choose objects and materials. Use tools to arrange elements of your design such as size, position and tone. Arrange the materials to create new meanings. Look at aspects such as composition, ...

• TLF-IDM017355

This is an album of six videos that focus on the work of six contemporary Australian artists and explore their sources of inspiration and subject matter, their selection and use of techniques, processes and technologies, the materials they use and the styles with which they work. Michel Lawrence interviews each of the artists ...