GCSE ART YR11WEEK 1: 23RD – 27TH MARCH*Your Art exam would have

been 6 weeks from now*

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 6 WEEKS TIME

THIS WEEKS TASK:

1. Write your proposal up in full, neatly on one page in your book, this should come after the ‘live drawing’ in the sequence. Make sure your proposal is as detailed and clear as my example (proposal attached to this ppt).

2. Dedicate one double page to recording, developing and experimenting with one of the key features you listed in your proposal, eg- Sajid: Dog tags, Tanisha: Flowers, Lily: Explosions, Dhruvika- Books…. So you could sketch, add photos, use different materials to try representing your feature in different ways, juxtapose your feature with another etc.

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

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..

Examples of recording and refining individual features: