An Intro to AS and A-level Art with Personal Investigation, Externally set task, Related Study

**What is A-level Art and AS Art? **
An introduction to the Course and why should I study A-level Art?

This is to introduce students to what is A-level Art and what is required in the course. It gives examples of the components of the course and describes how to go about developing the coursework project and controlled test.

**How to approach the course? **
1, Respond to work from other artists and cultures.
2, Develop preliminary plans and sketches in preparation for further work.
3. Present and organise your thoughts in a visual and intelligible way.
4. Recognise and deal with design problems
5. Think up your own ideas.
6. Explore and use materials skilfully.

**Key Tips to complete the course? **

Examples of how to process the Personal Investigation showing the key objectives, developing ideas from artists, showing exploring materials and taking ideas through a number of processes and doing artist responses. Then developing ideas, compositional plans and artist studies to realise final concept.

Examples of Externally set task, pages from sketchbooks to show how ideas were developed to interpret the theme

Examples of possible Related Study and what topics one can develop into a written study - examples of covers of different studies to give an idea of what is expected.