Developing ideas
- Development means moving your ideas forward, step by step, from your starting point towards a final piece.
- Respond to artists, try new compositions, change the scale, crop images, and combine ideas.
- Each piece of work should grow out of the one before, and your annotation should explain the links.
Refining work
- Refining means improving work through review and experiment: trying a different technique, colour scheme or composition, and choosing the best.
- Reflect on what's working: ask a teacher or friend for feedback, and be willing to change direction.
- Show refinement in your sketchbook with trial pieces and compositional studies.
Keeping it personal
- Choose subjects that interest you and link to your own experiences, surroundings or culture, such as Guernsey's coastline or your family.
- A personal, meaningful response scores highly in AO4.
Key terms
- Development
- Moving ideas forward step by step towards a final piece.
- Refinement
- Improving work through review and experiment.
- Compositional study
- A trial arrangement of a possible final piece.
- Cropping
- Cutting down an image to focus on part of it.
- Personal response
- Work that shows your own ideas and interests.
- Reflection
- Thinking about what is working and what to change.