Year 10 - Art and design
Presenting a portfolio: creating pages of documentation
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 select a focus for your portfolio and create a narrative through the pieces chosen.
Key Notes
- Decide on the theme or focus of your portfolio to highlight specific skills, projects, or a particular artistic style.
- Select your most interesting work that aligns with your portfolio's focus aiming for quality over quantity.
- Showcase a range of styles, techniques, or themes to demonstrate your versatility and depth as an artist.
Vocabulary To Learn
- portfolio: a collection of your artwork, sketchbook work, experiments, and final pieces
- focus: the main idea, theme, or approach you choose to explore in depth
- theme: the big idea or subject that your artwork is based on
- narrative: the story or journey shown through your artwork and sketchbook
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A common misconception about portfolios is that you need to include everything you've made.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Decide on the theme or focus of your portfolio to highlight specific skills, projects, or a particular artistic style. Select your most interesting work that aligns with your portfolio's focus aiming for quality over quantity.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'portfolio'
a collection of your artwork, sketchbook work, experiments, and final pieces.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: A common misconception about portfolios is that you need to include everything you've made. Correction: It's much better to select work that clearly shows your ideas, development, artistic journey and skills.
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: appropriate resources and creating artwork 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
- 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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