GCSE ART YR11WEEK 2: 30th MARCH – 3rd APRIL

(your exam would have been 5 weeks from now)

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photos of your outcomes for comment.

Those of you who have had extensive conversations with me about how to piece together your project in the coming weeks and what to develop in your sketchbook should follow the same guidance I gave you alongside any notes on your book pages or in STA sheets. ALL of you have an idea now and most have consolidated that idea in you written proposal. Your proposal is a vital part of this process which you should refer to often, it will remind you of what you are doing and why. I will give you guidance and visual prompts each week, but you must be more independent than ever now, and develop, record and refine your own ideas based on your own intentions.

ALL WORK IN YOUR EVENT BOOK WILL COUNT TOWARDS YOUR FINAL GRADE. EVEN IF WE SUBMIT IT AS ANOTHER COURSEWORK PROJECT, IT WILL COUNT.

YOU CAN DO THIS, I BELIEVE IN YOU,!!!!

PS- Before you decide you’ve finished a task, #WhatwouldMissSuttiesay !!!!!!!!!

AO1-Make connections with your Artist(s) as you start to visually plan for your final response.

AO3- Record your ideas through sketches, notes, photos and any other materials.

AO2- Refine, improve, tweak and perfect your ideas by experimentation and review.

You must record your whole thought process and all key features visually. If you keep it in your head and don’t put it in your book then I can’t assess it!

SPEND 3 HRS THIS WEEK WORKING IN YOUR ART SKETCHBOOK YOUR ART EXAM WOULD HAVE BEEN IN 5 WEEKS TIME

THIS WEEKS TASK:You should have already developed at least one feature listed in question 3 of your proposal. 1. Dedicate one more double page to recording, developing and experimenting with another key

feature you listed in your proposal, eg- Ratul: Destroyed Lands, Afrina: Cage, Tasnim: A Bride, Asma: Euphoria, Omar: Soldier…. Sketch, add photos, use different materials to represent your feature in different ways, juxtapose your feature with another etc.

2. Annotate all outcomes at this stage, constantly linking to your proposal.

EXT: Now that you have developed and considered two features that you want to add to your final response, create a page where you bring them together. Eventually, you will have to work out the layout of your final piece so it’s a good idea to start thinking about that now! EG- Lilly: Plane & buildings- draw both features together in different arrangements. You could draw three sketches; one of the plane in-front of the buildings, one of the plane crashing into the buildings and one of the plane crashed on the floor near the buildings.

As you do this, remember the reason you are using these features, why they are being brought together and how you are going to use visual language most effectively to express your idea in a powerful way. EG- Lily should ask herself; ‘which would be the more powerful image’, the plane crashing into the building or the plane just about to crash into the building? It isn’t always the most obvious image that gets the message across best.

The two features here (skeleton and girl) have been put together in two different ways. This will help the student decide which arrangement looks the best and is the most powerful. Annotate throughout.

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Proposal example-

1. What is your idea?: Crime

2. What do your Artists do?: One Artist creates images of guns and crime scenes. His work uses humour and challenges people's perceptions. I have focused on images of guns with brightly coloured crayons for bullets. My other Artist uses string to create her Artwork- she pins string to various surfaces to create outlines. She has created an image of a gun with string called ‘shoot’. Banksy would be a good third Artist to study, because of his imagery based on crime and irony.

3. List all the features you want to refine and bring together in preparation for your final response: A gun, crayons or colouring pencils, string, bright colour, watercolour backgrounds, possibly stenciling, possibly other symbols such as balloons (like Debbie Smyth) or flowers.

4. What do you want to portray or show in your final response?: I want to show a strong symbol of crime, the gun, in a less serious way, to take away its power. The colourful features I am using will be a representation of hope for a world with less crime. \

5. How could you use visual language to communicate your idea?: I will use the colourful features (crayons or string) to strangle the gun by drawing them wrapped around it or, stitching/ pinning colourful string around the outline.. I will use real crayons stuck to my piece with a glue gun for a greater effect, these may be coming out of the gun like bullets. I could have a colourful background and the gun could be solid black or have dark tones for contrast and to emphasise its part as a symbol of crime.

Write a proposal for your final piece following the questions (below). Aim to write as much as I have here, be as thorough and clear as possible. I want powerful ideas!

‘Refining’:Improve, Polish, Perfect, Enhance, Upgrade, Sharpen, Make better, Purify, Process, Filter..