Eduqas A-Level Art and Design media, techniques and processes overview quiz quiz

AO1

AO3

AO2

AO4

Photographs are banned outright by the examination board and may never appear anywhere in a portfolio

Photographs are always blurry and low in detail, so they cannot supply usable information to work from

There is no real difference, since copying a photograph records exactly the same information as drawing life

Primary-source recording gives direct, first-hand, authentic information that drives original work

Gesture drawing

Observational drawing

Analytical drawing

Technical drawing

They are identical in handling, so the two paints can be swapped freely with no change in technique

Watercolour is transparent and built light to dark; acrylic is opaque, fast-drying and over-paintable

Watercolour is opaque and built dark to light; acrylic is transparent and worked only in delicate washes

Both paints dry very slowly, allowing long periods of wet blending before any layer becomes workable

Glazing

Wet-in-wet

Impasto

Dry-brush

They are the same process under two different names, both printing from a single flat inked plate

Relief printing uses ink while intaglio printing uses paint, but the two are otherwise identical methods

Intaglio prints from the raised surface of the block, while relief prints from lines cut below the surface

Relief prints the raised surface (lino); intaglio prints incised lines (drypoint, etching)

A one-off, unique, painterly print pulled from a flat plate

An edition of many identical prints all pulled from the same fixed, repeatable inked matrix

A relief block carved so that the raised surface carries the ink and prints the final image

A digital print produced from a computer file and output unchanged through an inkjet printer

Additive removes material from a solid block while subtractive adds new material to build the form up

Additive builds form up (modelling, construction); subtractive cuts form away (carving)

They are the same process described in two ways, since both involve shaping a single block of material

Both processes use clay only and cannot be carried out in stone, wood, metal or any other material

Selling the finished work to a buyer once the final full-scale sculpture has been completed

A type of fast-drying opaque paint used for blocking in large flat areas of solid colour quickly

A small trial model to test a form in three dimensions before committing

Framing and mounting a finished photograph so that it is ready to be displayed in an exhibition

They are simply two different names for the very same approach, since all textile work both builds the cloth and embellishes it

Constructed textiles are always printed onto a ready-made cloth, never built up from raw fibre or yarn

Decorated textiles are woven from yarn, while constructed textiles are stitched and embroidered onto cloth

Constructed textiles make the fabric (weaving, felting); decorated textiles work onto fabric (stitch, applique, print)

Gives a shallow depth of field, isolating a sharp subject against a blurred background

Freezes fast motion completely, since a wide aperture forces the camera to use a very quick shutter

Makes everything sharp from the nearest foreground to the most distant background in the scene

Increases the visible noise in the image, because a wide aperture always demands a much higher ISO

It must always be shot in black and white film, since colour photography is treated as merely a casual snapshot

It is the deliberate control of camera and light to make considered images, with selection and editing

It must be captured on film only, because any image taken on a digital camera counts as a snapshot

It cannot be edited or adjusted afterwards in any way, so the picture is judged exactly as first shot