GCSE Art/Graphics/A Level Art Easter Work …

You also need to decide on what materials you want to you use to create your final piece. Is it going to be a painting, drawing, collage, print... etc?

You will need to tell Miss May/Miss Findlay straight after Easter so equipment and space can be arranged.

Over Easter you MUST make sure you have completed all the work already set and AT LEAST ONE (TWO FOR A LEVEL) MEDIA EXPERIMENTS BOARD(S) … all groups Exams are very soon after Easter!!! Remember the Exam unit is 40% of your GCSE/A Level

Media Experiments ‘AO2”Your next task is to experiment with a range of materials. This is important as it shows that you have explored different ideas for your final piece.

You must experiment with at LEAST 5 different materials (this does include the materials you have used for your observational work)

Don’t forget to annotate your work! Explaining what materials you have used, what you like and don’t like about it, and how it relates to your project

Materials you could use…-Pencil-Biro-Fineliner-Ink-Conte and Charcoal-Paint-Brusho-Coffee-Collage and mixed media-Mono printing-Etching-Photoshop and other photo editing-Sewing-Pyrography-Image transferring-Clay-Wire

You can also experiment by trying out different colour schemes and exploring different drawing techniques such as continuous line drawing

On the next few slides are ideas to help you decide what media you want to experiment with…

When you create these boards title them….

‘Media Experiments’

Collage….

Coffee, biro, paint, tonal pencil ….

Tonal Pencil, Biro, Fineliner….

Tonal Pencil, Biro, Fineliner….

Tonal Pencil, Brusho, Watercolour Fineliner….

Photoshop (double Exposure)….

Photoshop (double Exposure)….

Photoshop…

Photoshop (Hue + Saturation)….

Painting….

Dry Point Etching….

Dry Point Etching….

Acetate Transfer….

Acetate Transfer and Sewing….

Acetate Transfer and Sewing….

Pyrography….

Collage….

Collage….

Paper and Pins….

Image Transfer….

On the next few slides are ideas for extra work you could create over Easter……

Create further observational drawings and take more photographs

If you can go to an Art Exhibition.... create a board on the exhibition

Look on The Beaumont Blog for current exhibitions on and the Time Out website.

Stick on leaflets, do sketches, takes photographs for this board. This will show you are working independently on your project and will gain you further marks

Create an Artist board that relates to your chosen media