Art and Design (Fine Art)

Assessment

Students experience a variety of art activities during the first year and begin to build up a dynamic portfolio, which constitutes 60% of the overall result. At the end of the first year, students will complete an internal assessment and exam to ensure they attain a suitable standard to progress to A level for the second year. During the second year Fine Art students go on to study drawing, painting, mixed media, sculpture, installation and printmaking in more depth. They learn to respond to and record images using a variety of approaches such as observational, analysis, creative expression and imagination and will develop a greater understanding of space, composition, rhythm, scale and structure as well as colour, tone, texture, shape and form. Students will be introduced to a wide range of techniques including underpainting, glazing, wash and impasto, modelling, carving, casting, constructing, assembling and welding etching, engraving, drypoint, mono printing, lino printing, screen printing, photo silkscreen and lithography. They will also examine how images, artefacts and other modern and historical art forms have been created so they can apply and contextualise these processes in their work. There is an externally set assignment at the end of the course which constitutes 40% of the final result.