This week saw all of the A2 Art & Design students (all groups) submit their sketchbooks for a 'snap-shot' review (ordinarily students have a formal written review at least monthly) - but despite these reviews Miss.S & myself wanted to gather up all of the students sketchbook evidence & cross-check them. This was an afternoon of close scrutiny & cross reference of students performance, successes & of course difficulties. It has provided us with a wealth of information to target specific students with support and/or additional tasks to broaden, deepen their work & personal ideas (the students are working on their Unit 3: Personal Investigation project).
There were many examples of good practice, where students had displayed some beautiful documentation skills (below) & personal ideas that have driven their work from initial ideas through to quality studies.
The sketchbook pages above & below are an excellent example of careful documentation, here the students reveal exactly what moves they have taken using Photoshop to create their tessellation patterns (AO1, AO2, AO3) - all useful information to any external examiner.
The pages above clearly evidence digital work, containing small screen shots to explain the students technical moves. The final repeat pattern gift wrap ideas are beautiful (the colours above unfortunately aren't true to the final outcomes) - you can see in the background of the pages below tiny glimpses of other colour ways that the student explored (AO1, AO2, AO3).
These pages above just give a small insight into the methods employed by one student in her personal investigation into Fashion Illustration (additional to these beautiful sketchbook pages she has mini-outcomes including her current adventures into large scale stitch based fashion portraits, based from a photo shoot completed of two 'fashionista' friends).
Another students sketchbook revealed small scale exquisite portraits of elderly people. Her investigation involves interviewing, photographing & painting elderly people from various walks of life, she is trying to understand & depict several aspects including how to paint older skin, how skin tone/texture changes with age, how to portray the personality of her subjects, whether it be one of vulnerability, shyness etc (AO1, AO2, AO3).
She has explored a range of media, from painting, mono-printing, stitch based drawings, photographs etc, as we all know this is vital for all students to demonstrate their ability to experiment with & control a wide range of media/techniques (AO1, AO2, AO3).
This student has created this beautiful vibrant painting in her sketchbook (we always recommend that students try to produce quality studies in their sketchbooks, as this is their one opportunity to 'shine' & demonstrate to the examiners that they are students worthy of top marks). This student is yet to paint her image in the waiting circular gap - who knows what she'll decide to paint - keep watching this Blog for further updates.
Using 'Architecture' as a theme this student has started to develop paper based collars that extend into the front panel of a mans shirt. She has extend her studies into exploring a range of papers, acetates etc & has started to enhance the surface quality of her papers with wax, stitch etc. The documentation of her investigations is exquisite & highlights her abundance of personal ideas (AO1, AO2, AO3).
Above & below clearly demonstrates this students ability to experiment, manipulate, explore, develop & above all document successfully.
Small collar ideas, exploring a range of transferred images.
There are many more students sketchbooks with beautiful pages, please continue to follow this Blog for more postings on these students creative ventures.
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