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The assessment objectives for gcse art & design students, focusing on generating ideas and developing artwork. It covers primary and secondary sources, mind mapping, moodboards, and various media and approaches. Students are encouraged to make observational sketches, take photographs, visit galleries, and collect relevant images and notes.
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Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources.
Mind Map Moodboards
Primary Source - study directly from first-hand experience. Make observational sketches of your subject matter. You might sketch: natural objects, artefacts, places or people. Use a variety of media. Take your own photographs – use different viewpoints and lighting conditions. Visit a gallery/museum which is exhibiting work related to your theme. Collect leaflets, make studies of the artefacts, take photographs to document your visit.
Secondary Source - material produced by others. Collect images of work by artists and designers – make sure it is relevant to your theme in terms of subject matter, ideas, style, use of materials and processes or techniques. Make a copy of an artist or designers work. You don’t have to produce an exact copy of a piece, you might want to select an area that interests you or start with a small section of an image and extend it in the style of an artist. Use photographs and images by other people and manipulate using ICT - change colours, tones, scale etc.
Generating ideas on the theme of your project
Show you are inspired by the work of artists/designers…….
Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes. Try a range of different approaches in your developmental studies, this will help you understand the possibilities of various media and develop your technical skills. You need to……….
Media: Pencil Charcoal Graphite Crayon Pastels Chalk Acrylic Watercolour Ink Wire
Powder Paint Pen Fineliner Biro Wax Photography Clay Glaze Thread Fabric Card
Approaches: Drawing Free Machine Embroidery Applique Fabric Manipulation Batik
Painting Dyeing Sculpture Printing – lino Collage Computer manipulation Sublimation
When recording initial ideas you need to:
Make use of drawings, sketches, photographs and experiments with different media Collect images from a variety of sources. Use Primary and Secondary sources to inform your ideas Organise your initial research in your sketchbook before moving on to the development of ideas
When reflecting on your work you need to:
Consider how you have selected and developed your ideas Think about how you have used various media and processes Refine and develop your skills and approach as your ideas progress Think about how you could develop your ideas further Finish with an evaluation of the whole project, point out strengths and weaknesses as well as what could be achieved with further work.
When recording the development of your ideas you need to:
Keep all sorts of possibilities in front of you Try out different layouts or combinations of images and ideas Experiment with different media, techniques and scale Use annotations alongside sketches, designs and images Add written commentary to document your thoughts Organise your studies into a sequence that shows the development of your ideas.
Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as work progresses. (^) Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language.
You need to:
Consider different themes or approaches to your brief
Carefully select and studied your source material
Make a personal choice about materials, media and working processes
Experiment and control your chosen media, materials and techniques
Record and develop your ideas in a personal way
Organise and present your work carefully
Realise you intentions, develop and complete a final piece or pieces
You must demonstrate a personal response throughout your project, from the decisions you make when choosing a theme, to the ways in which you realise your intentions in the final piece. Your source materials, how you respond to them, and how you record your ideas are key to showing a personal response.
It is important to organise your project so that the development of you ideas and the connections between all the elements of your work are made clear - there should be a visual journey from your starting point through to your final piece.