Surfaces: Theme GCSE. Observational/Artists/Techniques Assessment objectives for Coursework

This is a GCSE coursework project on a theme called ‘Surfaces’ giving you loads of ideas to develop with your students. It deals with developing ideas to gain confidence with different media and to develop sketchbook skills. It is about the process of developing the Examboard Assessment Objectives AO1- Develop ideas from artists and AO2 Exploring different media for coursework.

It gives a set of observational photographs to work from for Assessment Objective 3 - AO3.

It gives you different artists to look at to gather resources on and students will be able to use these as artist studies and begin to explore these artists techniques and do studies in their book. This if for Assessment Objective 1 and students can gain ideas on ways to develop their skills in techniques through these artists and in so doing ‘Develop ideas’.

There are further sets of techniques for Assessment Objective 2 and one can explore, experiment with ideas for developing ‘creativity’ in your classroom. That is, exploring a number of different media and showing how one can take risks with the media in order to create an interesting effect. There are slides giving you a set of techniques to use - explaining how to use media in creative ways. These techiques link with the list of artists given on slides to start with.

The experimental techniques are:
=white paint printing,
=wax and scratch,
=distressing surfaces,
=dripping paint, scraping paint,
=using sgrafitto,
=cardboard collaging
=layering digital manipulations with collage
=using fabric and sewing into surfaces.
Emphasis here is that students should play and take risks and experiment with different materials and begin to layer and be able to draw on different surfaces.

It is a fun set of techniques at GCSE and/or A-level with students using their own resource material and developing their confidence and fluency with making creative experiments. Students can develop their own responses using the techniques.

There are questions so that students can write a final evaluation.

After this set of work students should be confident and independent enough to find their own photographs and to develop their own idea for a final piece for Assessment Objective 4.