Year 10 - Art and design
Resourcing ideas through personal reflections, narratives and objects
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 reflect on personal experiences and narratives, incorporating these into your creative practice.
Key Notes
- Reflect upon personal experiences, emotions and memories as sources of inspiration.
- Draw from personal or fictional narratives to create a strong foundation for artwork.
- Incorporate found objects to inspire and add layers of meaning to artwork.
- Combine resources to create rich mixed media outcomes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- reflect: think deeply about
- narrative: the practice or art of telling stories
- incorporate: include or add something into another thing
- mixed media: where more than one medium or material has been used
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Negative life experiences cannot be used as inspiration for creating artwork.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Reflect upon personal experiences, emotions and memories as sources of inspiration. Draw from personal or fictional narratives to create a strong foundation for artwork.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'reflect'
think deeply about.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Negative life experiences cannot be used as inspiration for creating artwork. Correction: Many artists find that exploring difficult life experiences can lead to meaningful creative work.
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
- Presenting a portfolio: creating pages of documentation 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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