Summer Prep Book - AQA Fine Art

For AQA Fine art GCSE and Alevel

Prep booklet with advice and tasks that aims to engage and prepare students for exam years [Y11 at GCSE and Y2 at Alevel]

All students should achieve an archive or research bank of project ideas, techniques and mediums they intend to use with notes on experiments they can apply them to, ideas on subjects and themes to explore, and a bank of artists and artworks with accompanying research/analysis and response experiment ideas. With this they will be fully prepared for component 1.

PDF included - booklet print format. Best printed A4. Can be used digitally as a guide for work to be produced.

Contents:

• What to expect for exam year - breakdown of projects
• tips for being an art student
• art events to go to
• useful links for research and art-world engagement
• assessment objectives recap
• annotation guide
• idea generation advice
• artist research tips
• artist response tips
• observational drawing tips
• subject in art breakdown and task
• techniques in art breakdown and task
• themes and concepts in art and task
• artist advice and task [artist research bank]
• project ideas example
• guidance for students to create 3 project ideas for coursework component

With this booklets students will be guided through summer and/or April/May/June classes and have the support, research and motivation to start their component 1’s.