gathering or creating material to support and develop your own ideas

something that sparks ideas, creativity, or motivation in your work

capturing sights, sounds, or experiences to use as a reference in your creative work

First-hand primary resourcing

Art and design

Identifying starting points

Resourcing ideas through personal reflections, narratives and objects

Effective annotation: different ways to present ideas

Analysing the work of artists and designers: materials and techniques

The work of artists and designers: elements of art

The work of artists and designers: principles of art

Connecting and combining: trials and experiments with materials

Photographing for resources: what makes a good photograph

Personal response: appropriate resources and creating artwork

Creating a surface, armature, background: preparing your personal response

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.

First sustained project: working from a theme

Complete the sentence: Artists might {{}} upon life events as a source of inspiration.

True or false? Artists always take inspiration from work seen in a gallery.

to translate sources of inspiration into visual ideas

to look at one image only for inspiration

to choose an idea without exploring sources of inspiration

Which of the following best describes how to use sources of inspiration to generate an idea for a theme?

writing your name on your individual studies

making notes about your favourite art lessons

recording thoughts, processes and decisions

What might annotation in an art context be used for?

Starter Quiz

What is the term given to a story?