The Essentials of GCSE Art & Design

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Discipline‐specific guidance, which provides supportive amplification of the specialist processes related to each title within the context of the criteria.

Finally, budding photographers will no doubt be drawn to this area of study because it allows them to develop their skills and experiment with portraiture, location photography, studio photography, experimental imagery, installation, documentary photography, photo-journalism, moving image: film, video and animation, and fashion photography. You might start your sketchbook drawing your street scene through a four-year-old’s eyes: bold colours and uncertain lines, without much definition at all, rendered in coloured pencils or wax crayons. In that case, you may invoke your inner Monet, devising impressionistic versions of the same scene, differently lit and through a variety of media.

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This may include, textured paper, drawings, papier mache, news cuttings, plastic sheets, old wallpaper, glossy photographic paper and other collages surfaces, for example.

Art is such an all-encompassing concept, especially when one considers the possibility of overlapping media. Your portfolio should be a good representation of your academic journey in this subject, so the content is as important as the presentation. Students must stop work on their preparatory studies as soon as the first period of supervised time starts. The extended creative response must explicitly evidence students’ ability to draw together different areas of knowledge, skill and/or understanding from initial engagement with their selected starting point through to their realisation of intentions in the 10 hours of supervised time. Let's go Perfecting Your GCSE Art Sketchbook What Is Your GCSE Art Portfolio And What Should It Look Like?During your fine art module, you can expect to do drawing, painting, sculpting, printmaking, photography, installation and other lens or light-based media and mixed media art. As an aspiring artist who wants to see their work in galleries, then this is the perfect choice for you. In a sense, you might say that Andy Warhol replicated Monet’s idea through his repetition of Marylin Monroe likenesses all done in different colour schemes, and his Campbell’s Soup Cans series consisting of 32 canvases. Are you still wondering about the benefits of studying art at GCSE level? How Will You Be Assessed? As your proficiency at pencil drawings grows, you may highlight the human form in action: a basketball player leaping for a dunk shot, a twirling ballerina; a fisher reeling in a big catch or a chef, busy in the kitchen. Following receipt of the externally set assignment paper, students should select one starting point from which to develop their own work.

Start with a toy poodle and work your way through the sizes: miniature and medium, all the way to a standard poodle. Your work may show them in repose or active, their coats of many different colours and barbered into many styles. Use the right colors – Cool wallpaper can be paired with any color scheme or pattern. If you want a more unique look, Experiment with different colors and patterns.He also painted the Houses of Parliament 19 times, all from the same perspective but in different weather conditions and at different times of the day. Weak work sets off alarm bells for an examiner, alerting them to be on the lookout for weaknesses elsewhere. This does not mean that anything ‘less than perfect’ should be discarded. Mistakes provide valuable learning opportunities and cues for how subsequent learning took place. However, you must discriminate. If an image is glaringly worse than others, consider improving or eliminating it. Seek your teacher’s guidance before removing any artwork; improving existing work is often much faster than starting afresh. Craft the sketchbook with care As we have mentioned above, there are various subject areas that you can choose to focus your attention on. Below, we have provided some detail on the course content covered by each subtopic to give you a better idea of whether it fits in with your professional interests and life aspirations. If the human form is your theme, you might try doing a self-portrait in pencil or charcoal and then surrounding your likeness with various other faces and/or posed figures.