Year 10 - Art and design
Personal response: appropriate resources and creating artwork
First sustained project: working from a theme
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Unit Summary
This is an independent, pupil-led unit where pupils develop their own creative process. Having learned the key components of shaping an artistic voice, they will now make choices about themes, techniques, and processes, articulating and evaluating their artistic journey.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to develop your theme by experimenting with your own photos and drawings.
Key Notes
- Artists may select from existing first-hand resources to develop and explore new creative outcomes.
- Photos can be developed in ways, such as collage, stitching, drawing, or digital editing, to create new visual ideas.
- Experimenting with various materials and techniques helps develop drawings with richer textures and deeper expression.
Vocabulary To Learn
- experiment: to try out new ideas, materials, or techniques
- media: the materials and tools used to create artwork
- develop: to build on your initial ideas by exploring, refining and pushing them further
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once a photo or drawing is finished, it can't be changed or developed further.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists may select from existing first-hand resources to develop and explore new creative outcomes. Photos can be developed in ways, such as collage, stitching, drawing, or digital editing, to create new visual ideas.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'experiment'
to try out new ideas, materials, or techniques.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once a photo or drawing is finished, it can't be changed or developed further. Correction: A finished photo or drawing is just a starting point—artists often rework, edit, layer, or translate their images into new forms using different media to explore deeper meaning or fresh creative directions.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Analysing the work of artists and designers: materials and techniques Study Guide
- Connecting and combining: trials and experiments with materials Study Guide
- Creating a surface, armature, background: preparing your personal response Study Guide
- Curating the artwork: selecting and arranging key pieces Study Guide
- Effective annotation: different ways to present ideas Study Guide
- Evaluate the use of materials and techniques Study Guide
- First-hand primary resourcing Study Guide
- Identifying starting points Study Guide
- Personal response: finishing an artwork Study Guide
- Personal response: how to judge quality and refining work Study Guide
- Personal response: layers and processes in different endorsements Study Guide
- Photographing for resources: what makes a good photograph Study Guide
- Presenting a portfolio: creating pages of documentation Study Guide
- Resourcing ideas through personal reflections, narratives and objects Study Guide
- Self assessment techniques: evaluating your own work Study Guide
- The work of artists and designers: elements of art Study Guide
- The work of artists and designers: principles of art Study Guide
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