Year 12 and 13 starting points
Critical studies: Starting points – debate - What is art? What is applied
art? H/W summarise points from debate into short personalised essay.
Illustrate with quotes and 3 artist images which relate (either visually or
thematically) to your board. Present in sketch book along side appropriate
imagery. NOTE: Applied art should select at least 2x 3D images.
Workshop
Rodin, Spring
Etching and drypoint,
1882-1888
FISCHLI, Peter
WEISS, David
Flowers, C-Print
1997/8
Critical studies – 3 artist
images relating to your board
Hans Bellmer, Les Jeux de la
Poupee (Doll's Games), plate
VIII,’ 1936. Gelatin silver print w/
applied colour.
Workshop
Chris Ofili
‘Turquesa’, 1999-2002
Fiona Rae
'We go in search of our
Dream', 2007
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Critical studies – 3 artist
images relating to your board
Hans Bellmer, ‘Les Jeux de la
Poupee (Doll's Games), plate
VIII,’ 1936. Gelatin silver print w/
applied colour.
Good observational photos
Critical studies: Observation – Examine own photos carefully in relation to
your chosen artist images. What connects them, visually, thematically?
What area are you interested in? Construction of piece or concept?
Analyse artist images in book, relating them to your photos. Explore ideas / interests.
H/W finish. Refine your artist selection in relation to own photos if required.
Examine at least 2 photos
carefully in relation to your
chosen artist images. What
connects them, visually,
thematically?
Be as in depth as you can!
Explore every
connection (no matter
how abstract it might seem)
annotate content
Image analysis – cont’d
Look closer……
• Blind drawing exercise. How good was
your description? In pairs, attempt to recreate
your partner’s artist image from description.
Review drawing in relation to description.
• Drawing from artist section. Select area
from artist image (should relate to own drawing
from photograph) to draw in detail.
Observation: This is key. Spend time getting this right. It
will make the difference between a good and bad project!
Critical studies: Explore – look deeper. Use viewfinder to highlight and draw from
appropriate areas relating artist work with your own. How has your artist constructed
their piece? Consider composition, space, technique… H/W finish samples, annotate
Using a viewfinder, select an
appropriate area
from your artist image to
re-draw using biro.
How has your artist
constructed their piece?
Drawing from artist
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annotate form
(volume, line, movement)
Consider composition,
space, technique…
Artist Technique
Annotate your drawing from artist comment on the artist’s style and
technique.
Research your artist’s technique – find a drawing they
have done. Compare this to your own drawing style…
Use your artist drawing to make a range of samples to reduce and analyse form
Photocopy your drawing from
artist twice (vary the scale of
the copies)
Work on top of one using ink and brush (to highlight areas of tone)
Work on top of the other using ink and a nib pen (to explore use of line)
Trace the image onto greaseproof paper and add contour arrows
(to indicate areas of direction / movement)
Annotate your samples to explore and examine artist technique
Artist
Technique
MOVEMENT
- Reducing the
form
LINE
ARTIST COMPARISON
Annotate
samples
examine your
artist’s use of
line, tone &
movement
TONE
Colour studies: Paint over photocopy of high
quality pencil drawing. You will not know there is
photocopy underneath!
Artist Colour Studies…
Analyse your artists use of colour
Describe your
artists use of
colour, then
compare and
contrast them…
Artist Colour Studies
• Select a range of samples from your book (your
own drawings / studies)
• Combine these together to form a set of new
ideas
• Apply appropriate range of colour
– taking inspiration from
your artists.
• Annotate new samples to explain where
your ideas have come from.
Examples of artist colour study: this is not an artist copy.
This is more that you use the artist as inspiration for
working into your own work…examine colours, technique
etc…
Critical studies: Reflect - respond to the response – creative writing.
What does the artist image remind you of? How did you come to your
response? Describe the thought process that led to your response.
Evaluate your response.
Second Observation drawing in pencil.
- Deeper Analysis
Y13 Critical Studies – deeper analysis
Artist research Where do your artist’s ideas come from?
Who did your artists look to for inspiration before
you looked at them?
Where did they learn their techniques / who from?
How can you use these techniques?
Collect articles and information on your artist(s) and
gather together to form artist research page
Research and annotate
Context
Collect articles and information on your artist(s) and gather
together to form artist research page(s)
Include images and articles and annotate all information found…
Second colour study: Add extra media (oil
pastels/ink etc).
Printing
It is important to work into the sections of drawings with ink to start to prepare for printing. Mapping out
the drawing in line which can then easily be transferred into printing…
Extending one section…
Connecting two sections…
Working into one
section…
Prints: Etching and Lino
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Remember that these are two very different techniques. Think with lino that
the lines will be bold and what you cut away does not print (if you cut the
lines away when printed the lines are light). Etching is more refined and like
drawing. What you scratch away on the plastic sheet becomes the print (the
lines get filled with ink)
Etching
Lino
Artist Compare and contrast
• How do your artists differ?
• How are they similar?
• Brainstorm your artist images with an indepth comparison. Y13 – formalise for
H/W
Artist Comparison leading onto:
• This is an essential piece of writing!!
Creative Development Writing
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Where am I now writing…use the gallery
sheet and four development photos that
you made around half term to illustrate
your ideas.
4 development prints. These need to be
collaged together and will form the
inspiration for one of the three pathways
(Print and mixed
media/Painting/Sculpture) that you
choose for final work. Make these first with
photocopies of original prints, then collage
the original prints ONLY when you have
decided how to successfully collage them
through using photocopies.
Critical studies: Evaluate - How have
your artist studies informed your work?
What have you learnt from them? How?
Why? In what way…? Which sections
from each study have been most
informative? Select range of key words /
images
from study which you feel reflect what
you have learned this project.
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Development writing
Where am I now? Own work
Discuss the workshop where you constructed found objects into a board. What were you trying to achieve. Were you responding to the
objects that were available and being inspired or did you find it hard to make your board. If you found it hard, say why. What were the
frustrations that you experienced? What did you enjoy? How did you photograph your board to ensure that you made successful
photographs? What is the importance of producing successful photographs? Explain what a successful photograph is. How could you
improve your photographs? Talk about one or two things that you think you could have completed at a higher standard. Discuss your two
drawings. How long did these take and how did you make sure they were successful? What did you learn about making a successful
piece of work? How could you improve these drawings or ensure that the next drawing that you make is as good? Discuss your colour
studies using paint and oil pastel. How did you achieve the layering of colour washes? What is the importance of building layers of
washes in a painting? How did you ensure these colour studies were successful? How could you improve these colour studies? Discuss
your ink studies. What were you trying to achieve here? What was the purpose of these studies? Are they successful? Explain why? What
could you do to improve them? How did you use your ink studies for starting your etching (plastic sheet and compass). Tell me about how
your printed your etching and what you learnt. How can you ensure you produce a successful etching? How could you improve your
prints? Discuss your lino print. Did you use your ink studies to help you make a design? How did the ink studies help you think about what
you wanted to cut for a lino? Is your lino successful? Have you printed it well?
Discuss overall how you think your practical work went? Have you developed ideas that you are pleased with. Is the standard of the work
high enough? Do you need to take more time each week to improve these studies?
Where am I now? Artitst research/critical studies.
Look back at your artist development writing. What key artists are you looking at? How does this relate to your own work? Are you looking
at theme/content/composition/colour/technique (one or all of these is fine) from your artist. Discuss briefly what influences you in their
work. Discuss your development gallery sheet (produced in or after half term). Why did you choose this artist? Does this artist reflect the
pathway (print/sculpture/painting) that you would like to take for a final piece of work? What have you found out about this artist that would
help you refine your ideas for making final work?
Where am I going? Pathway.
Discuss what you would like to make for a final work (print/sculpture/painting/mixture of all three…). Discuss why.
Discuss how you might:
1: Painting
Make four print collages and then use these as inspiration for a painting by drawing or painting on photocopies of these collages as
inspiration for a painting.
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2: Printing
Make four collages and take two forward into final work. You would photocopy your collages and work into the photocopies before working
into the ACTUAL prints. Two of the four collages will be stuck in your book as development ideas and the other two will be finished in your
exam.
3. Sculpture
Your four print collages will inspire you to make sculpture. You will have to make small samples (2 or 3) with sculptural materials
(maquettes) which are ideas for final work. You will then choose one or a combination of these maquettes to make into a final sculpture.
Be clear about your sculptural materials and what can and cannot be combined….talk to a specialist.
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Y12 - Annie Leibovitz
• What makes an image art?
From concept to completion - how do artists
develop their work from idea to finished
product?
Visit the Annie
Leibovitz
exhibition and
make a gallery
sheet…
What makes her work stand out?
What makes an image art?
Colour photocopy and cut sections of (AO1) paintings of your own work
work as inspiration for colour work on collages. Look out for areas of
success…good brush work/colour combinations etc…
More…from the second colour study…
Artist response photos: photocopy your artist colour studies
and cut out interesting sections showing good use of
media/colour etc.
Working into prints…
looking at your painted sections from your own colour work and your artist response
colour work apply the same technique/colour or refine colour further in relation to
developing interests with your artists…start first on photocopies of your collaged
prints…always experiment first on a surface (photocopy) where you do not destroy
ACTUAL work…
Painting Pathway…
looking at your painted sections from your own colour work and your artist response
colour work apply this to making a painting using one of your 4 development prints as a
starting point. Photocopy one of these prints and start experimenting with paint and/or
start drawing from your print blocks to start developing composition ideas for
painting/s…These can be on canvas/loose/stretched/sewn into etc.
Sculpture pathway:
looking at your shapes within the
sections from your own colour work and your artist response colour work draw out on
card and cut and collage to start building some sculptural Maquette's. Think of shape,
form, structure etc…
Final work
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2-3 of the development pieces will be taken forward and finished for final
work that will be mounted/framed by Michael.
Critical studies – Cumulate – combine areas from each study together to form
a holistic creative essay. Overlay, weave, combine, thread key images and words
from project together to form ‘final essay’ to present alongside your finished work.
Annotation:
What to write for annotation…
Annotation should explain (where it is not obvious…) your ideas, observations, insights, reflection and
progress on the following media and materials (Miss Maxwell’s art history annotation relates to exactly
what questions she wants you to ask).
Painting and Drawing:
Paint and drawing qualities: plasticity, opacity, translucence, malleability, hues tones, tints. Tools with which you apply
paint and drawing media, such as brushes, knives, sponges, fingers and rags.
Printmaking:
Surface qualities and the quality of the marks that lino, etching, monoprint and collograph printing make. The
appropriateness of your choice different print techniques in relation to the image you want to print (for instance, if
want to produce a highly detailed print you would using etching as a technique, not a lino, so you can maintain the
detail of the original drawing because etching produces fine detailed lines…). The difference in technique in Relief
printing (raised prints which are collograph prints), Block printing (lino, wood), Intaglio (etching where the lines are
incised into blocks or plates).
Sculpture:
Producing forms in 3D, utilising volume, space, materials and movement. Making sure that you show evidence and
understanding of fixing or joining materials such as card, plastics with glueing or taping. Modelling such as clay,
plaster or wax using your hands or carving, cutting or abrading tools. Constructing objects out of plaster of paris,
wood, leather, textiles, wax and found objects.
What to write:
Use the above as a glossary when writing. Talk technically about your use of media. Your annotation should be
absolutely precise, no waffling please! Have a title on each page (i.e Relief Printing) and then you should in no
more than 4-5 sentences discuss the POTENTIAL of the media used (why you chose it in relation to what effect
you were trying to create, or experiment you were doing and the benefit of that media in relation to what you were
trying to achieve (oil pastels are good because they are bold and strong colours that mix easily to create a broad
range of hues). And, then discuss the LIMITATION of that media as well (the limitation of oil pastel is that it is
difficult to work in a precise manner because the size of the pastel means that it is impossible to complete very
refined or detailed work…). Then finally discuss what you could improve, PRECISELY (in the right-hand side of
this drawing I feel I could have taken more time to work on the shading BY using a softer pencil and working the
darkest tonal areas up to the deepest possible tone, I felt I could have handled the use of this media better by
holding the pencil in a looser manner to ensure there was more fluidity in my mark making).
Evaluation: What to write…
Finishing off…
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Your book needs to be completed by taking the following into account:
Quality…EVERY page needs to be worked into and finished to the HIGHEST
standard. DO NOT start new things…just finish things off properly. We are looking for
RIGOUR in all of your work. We are looking for the most resolved work, not
unfinished or scrappy drawings…
Annotation: This needs to be precise and focused. Only use the writing frame
provided and answer the questions properly. DO NOT waffle on about things as if this
makes you sound interesting. Just tell me exactly what you understand about the
media and materials that you have been using. Tell me precisely about the problem
solving you have done. Nothing else, we are not interested! (☺)
Art history/critical studies: These pages need to be finished properly with all the
relevant writing completed to a high high standard. Do not rush this work. Think about
what you are saying and consider the PRESENTATION of your ideas. Do not write in
hideous coloured pencils or fat marker pens. Keep your writing as a part of the overall
visual quality of the page, not bubble writing or writing at slanty angles. Use quality
writing equipment, pens or normal pencil. Think about where you write, don’t
obliterate drawings or images by scribbling all over them. Make your writing legible.
Make sure all essay drafts marked by Miss Maxwell are stuck in.
Do not cut corners…your grades will suffer. Ask your teacher for feedback. Ask what
can be improved and how…be honest if you do not understand what is being asked
of you or if you do not know how to use the media properly. This is what we are here
for…
Look at the following pages to help you with ideas for finishing off…
Critical studies – page layout
Each page must be stimulating – the aim is
to show you are making both visual and
intellectual connections
Annotate everything – image &
text (all thoughts are valid)
Stick down everything
(use masking tape / prit stick)
notes,
tickets,
related
articles,
rough
drafts…
Press releases / articles
- don’t just
read them!
Use them…
annotate them.
Always support written work with visual imagery
Make sure you have a strong range of images – BOTH 2D and 3D
Use your gallery sheets