Recording insights and intentions

Student artist research alongside initial drawings — Image caption,
This student has demonstrated the connections between their inspiration and their own work by showing them together and explaining links with annotation

Angie Lewin- Collage of plant pictures, drawings and paintings of plants, and notes — Figure caption,
Make links between your work and that of professional artists by using the same media and techniques, as this student has done in their piece

You need to demonstrate that you understand how artists and designers work, and relate this to the ideas that you record. This may be done using images, different media, sketches, diagrams and studies.

You should demonstrate connections between the work of other artists and designers and your own recordings. You could do this by:

placing images of artists' and designers' work side-by-side with your own work
using annotations to explain connections between images and ideas
presenting responses to what you have seen or experienced
making use of a photo-journal in which you document the process of making a piece

You can also record your insights and intentions through:

layout or composition plans
working drawings
experiments with media, processes and techniques
sketches, photographs or printouts recording the development process
video, audio recordings or writing

You must explore the visual qualities and formal elements of your contextual sources. For example, you could:

use image processing software to experiment with the textures, colours or surface qualities of an image
record your insights into visual, and design characteristics, such as layout, composition and
record the connections between your ideas and intentions and a major style or movement

Checklist

When recording insights and intentions have you:

organised your observations carefully?
used a range of approaches and processes?
demonstrated your understanding of visual and formal elements?
demonstrated connections with contextual sources and the way other artists and designers work?
shown that you have reviewed and developed your work?

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