Year 10 - Art and design
Self assessment techniques: evaluating your own work
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 your own artwork by identifying strengths, areas for improvement and setting clear goals for future projects.
Key Notes
- Questions help us evaluate: 'What worked well?' and 'What aspects of the materials or techniques enhanced the piece?'.
- Artists consider how creative decisions impact the overall effect of a piece.
- Planning for future projects is based on reflective thinking.
Vocabulary To Learn
- intention: the creative goal or message you want your work to express
- choice: the act of selecting from two or more options
- impact: the impression your work makes on the viewer
- reflect: when you pause to review your work and process
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Reflection is only about finding faults or criticising your work.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Questions help us evaluate: 'What worked well?' and 'What aspects of the materials or techniques enhanced the piece?'. Artists consider how creative decisions impact the overall effect of a piece.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'intention'
the creative goal or message you want your work to express.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Reflection is only about finding faults or criticising your work. Correction: Reflection is about recognising both strengths and areas to improve in order to grow as an artist.
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
- Resourcing ideas through personal reflections, narratives and objects 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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