Planning a final piece
- The final piece is your personal response that realises your intentions (AO4). It should grow naturally from your development work.
- Plan it with compositional studies, colour trials and material tests.
- Choose the size, media and composition that best express your ideas.
Making it
- Break the work into stages and plan your time, especially for the 10-hour ESA session.
- Prepare materials in advance, and practise any difficult techniques first.
- Keep checking the work against your plans, and adapt if something better emerges.
Presenting and evaluating
- Present the final piece neatly, with your preparatory work showing the journey.
- Evaluate the outcome: how well it meets your intentions, its strengths, and what you'd do differently.
Key terms
- Final piece
- The finished artwork that realises your intentions.
- Realise
- To make your intentions into a finished work.
- Preparatory work
- The research and development that leads to the final piece.
- Time plan
- A plan of the stages and timing of the work.
- Outcome
- The finished result of a project.