Toyota Dream Car Art Contest - One Dream Car in the Style of Another

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Years 7 & 8 Visual Arts:

• Experiment with visual arts conventions and techniques, including exploration of techniques used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent a theme, concept or idea in their artwork (ACAVAM118)
• Develop planning skills for art-making by exploring techniques and processes used by different artists (ACAVAM120)
• Practice techniques and processes to enhance the representation of ideas in their art-making (ACAVAM121)

Syllabus outcomes: VAS4.1, VAS4.3, VAS4.4, VAS4.5, VAS4.6.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Literacy.

Relevant parts of Year 7 and 8 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students identify and analyse how other artists use visual conventions and viewpoints to communicate ideas and apply this knowledge in their art making. They plan their art making in response to exploration of techniques and processes used in their own and others’ artworks, and demonstrate use of visual conventions, techniques and processes to communicate meaning in their artworks.

Unit of work: Toyota Dream Car Contest.

Time required: 120 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion, guide groups through activities and through creation of artworks. 

• Paper measuring no larger than 400mm x 550 mm (15.7-21.7in.) or A3 in size
• Scrap paper for drafting
• Drawing materials, including but not limited to: coloured pencils, pens/markers, crayons, paints, watercolour paints, etc
• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Previous contest winners. Art Terminology Questions (one copy per two students, printed back to back)
• Enough internet-enabled devices to facilitate small group work
• A class set of the following artworks:
• Vue de Paris by Albert Dubois-Pillet
• Ravello III by M.C. Escher
• Kraft Salad Dressing by Janet Fish
• Grafton Gallery from Les Affiche Illustrees by Eugène Grasset
• Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet
• Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving

The Toyota Dream Car Art Contest usually commences late October to early November and concludes late to early March. Find up-to-date entry details, prizes and full terms and conditions here.