Personal response: appropriate resources and creating artwork

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

First-hand primary resourcing

Photographing for resources: what makes a good photograph

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

Personal response: layers and processes in different endorsements

Personal response: how to judge quality and refining work

Personal response: finishing an artwork

Presenting a portfolio: creating pages of documentation

Curating the artwork: selecting and arranging key pieces

Evaluate the use of materials and techniques

Self assessment techniques: evaluating your own work

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

Physical activity and equipment requiring safe use

Use of equipment that may require supervision for safety, e.g. scissors in KS1, needles, paint, knives, cooking.

To build on your original ideas and explore them further

They provide original and personal material for development

Why might artists use their own photos when starting a new project?

Name two types of media that could be used to develop a photograph into a new piece of art.

You might discover shapes or patterns to develop further

You’ll have to start the drawing all over again

What might happen if you focus on just one section of a drawing?

It allows you to layer textures, drawings and materials to tell a story

It helps you personalise or change parts of a photo you’re not happy with

It limits your creative options by only using black and white images

It gives you freedom to experiment and make the photo feel unique

Why is collage an effective technique for working into photos?

Copying an image exactly without changing it

Trying out new materials, ideas, or techniques to explore possibilities

Only using one method that you already know well

Avoiding mistakes by doing the same thing every time

Which of these best describes what it means to experiment in art?

Starter Quiz