Art and design exemplification standards file level 1 - The National ...

Creating art, craft and design:
Pupil D has purposefully explored a variety of media including pastel, ink, charcoal, tissue and bleach,
refining her representation of what she saw in an increasingly creative way.
In her sketches from the microscope, she has used the formal elements of colour and tone effectively.
However, her approach was quite restrained and her use of colour could be more expressive. Her ink
painting of a seed (from photographs by the artist Rob Kesseler) shows that she has understood the
structure of the seed. She has used the formal elements of shape, form, tone and colour effectively.
Next steps
To progress, Pupil D needs to:
be more adventurous with colour, using it to create more imaginative, original work.
Experimental work with paint, wire and collage
Context
These activities were part of an extended project on land art that took place over two terms.
In the second term, pupils built on what they had learnt in the first term about using the world as a visual
resource and creatively collaborating on art works and installations. They shifted their focus from the local
environment to aspects of the environment not visible to the naked eye. This was to stimulate their curiosity
and explore their sense of wonder, as artists, at the appearance of the world at the cellular level. They
collaborated with the science department, using microscopes and slides to make studies of cell forms,
patterns and structures.
The objective was to develop ideas and create pieces for a large-scale group exhibit.
In this sequence of activities, pupils used the colours, shapes and forms of cells and organisms they had
seen under the microscope and in other artists’ works as stimuli for playing with and manipulating colour.
They made notes, sketched and recorded ideas in notebooks and sketchbooks. After creating a wire
sculpture of a cellular structure, pupils drew a picture of it, in colour. They also created an annotated study of
images of cellular structures.
Notebook analysis of cellular structures
The teacher observed that Pupil D made links
between science and art and is becoming aware
of the value of analyzing what she can see.
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