Personal Investigation: Structure:

• Complete an artist CV that reflects on their art ability from KS3 and their likes and dislikes. 
• Complete research pages on structure, looking at vision, inspiration, links to skills, contemporary art and history, mind mapping all information
• Create a visual recording page, focusing on observational drawings in pen, pencil, coloured pencil, collage, oil pastel and print making techniques.
• Collecting their own photographs that represent structure and mounting these on a page.
• Create a mark making page, including tonal drawings, mini mark making and evaluations.
• Complete a colour experimentation page, focusing on the colour wheel, mark making with colour, weaving colour, definition of colour with examples.
• Create a page of their structure influence after they have narrowed down their mind maps pages, looking at artists and images with evaluations/ annotation.
• Research a minimum of 3 artists, recreating their own interpretation of their work and using their photographs to recreate them in the style of the artist, all to be completed on their own, individual pages. 
• Design a final outcome based on their research with annotation, refining and developing these designs.
• Use media and materials to recreate design work to know which material they want to use in their final outcome.
• Create a final outcome.

Externally Set Assignment:

• Pupils get given an exam booklet and they choose a question; they then research this question or theme.
• Create 3 research pages, including a mind map, a mood board and thumbnail observational drawings. 
• Take their own pictures of this theme for primary resources.
• Draw observational drawings from own photographs using a variety of media. 
• Look at artists and images with evaluations/ annotation.
• Study a minimum of 3 artists, recreating their own interpretation of their work and using their photographs to recreate them in the style of the artist.
• Design final outcomes based on their research with annotation.
• Refine and develop these designs, and using media and materials to recreate design work to know which material they want to use in their final outcome.
• Create the final outcome in exam conditions.