GCSE Revision Guide

By Jay Hart

Contents Page

Pg.3-6 – Equipment that will be required

A2 Portfolio

Sketch Book

Drawing Pencils

Clay Tools

Pg.7-8 – Notable artists that will be studied for GCSE’s

Ernst Haeckel

Sarah Young

Pg.9 – Different styles of art

Different types of art that will be studied for GCSE

Pg.10-12 – Usable machines

Printing Press

Printer

Computer

Pg.13 – Quiz introduction

Pg.14-15 – Quiz questions

Pg.16-17 – Quiz answers

A2 Portfolio

An A2 portfolio is required to keep all of your GCSE artwork together and make sure none of it gets lost, it is quite useful and usually provided by the school for around £2.00, and is used for the 2 or 1 year course. It will store all of your artwork and remain in the art room or taken home for revision, homework etc.

Drawing Pencils

Drawing pencils will be required if you want to up your skill and do quality home work, they will provide you with the correct tones depending on the HB of the pencil, and will make sure you homework gets a higher grade.

Sketch Book

To use in lessons and out of lessons at home or else where to further your skills as an artist inside or outside of the class room this sketch book can also be used for homework and can be used to do GCSE drawings instead of school provided paper.

Clay ToolsClay tools are useful when you are making clay sculptures or something involving clay as they help to shape the sculptures and make sure you get the kind of finish you want with the clay, they are usually provided by the school for free when clay work is being done in the classroom.

Notable Artists: Ernst HaeckelErnst Haeckel was born on 16th of February 1834, in Potsdam, Germany and he died on 9th of August 1919, in Jena, Germany. His full name was Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, he was an was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist.

Notable Artists: Sarah YoungSarah has worked as an illustrator for many years, and is becoming increasingly well known and collected. Her illustrations for "Greek Myths" (Walker Books) have been widely acclaimed, and she has also done the illustrations for Michael Morpurgo’s book ‘Running Wild’.

Best known for her lino and wood cuts, she also works in screen-printing and has recently been developing new methods of working in monoprint and collagraph – printing collage blocks.

Different types of art that will be studied for GCSE

Woodcut/Linocut Monoprint Soft Pencil

Crayon/Oil pastel Paint.net Etching

Usable Machines: Printing PressA printing press is used when you etch a picture or object into a piece of plastic, lino, or wood. The object with the print on is put into the press then the press handle is turned and when it comes out of the other side of the press the print would've been transferred onto a piece of paper or material.

Usable Machines: Printer A Printer is used to print off things that you need from the internet. This could be work that you have done or work that you need to make you piece better. You could use the printer to copy a picture or to enlarge it. Using a printer is useful because if they don’t have access to one it means that they cant get any work off the internet and incorporate it into their own work.

Usable Machines: ComputerA computer will be used for a range of things in GCSE art, mainly for people who take photography as well. By using a computer a person can use software such as Paint.Net to do art work on the computer. They can also get pictures of the art work that the artists they are studying have done and use this as inspiration for their piece of work.

Glossary Word Definition

Sculptures Make or represent by carving, casting, or other shaping techniques

Portfolio A large, thin, flat case for loose sheets of paper such as drawings or maps

HB (pencil) Many pencils across the world, and almost all in Europe, are graded on the European system using a continuum from "H" (for hardness) and "B" (for blackness)

Photography the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.

Lino informal term for linoleum.

Paint.net Paint.net is a freeware raster graphics editor software for Microsoft Windows

Monoprint