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Media, techniques and processes

6 dot points across 6 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you draw and record from observation to gather information and develop ideas?

Drawing and observational recording: drawing as the core recording skill; observational, analytical and experimental drawing; drawing media; recording from primary sources to gather information and develop ideas.
How drawing and observational recording work in Eduqas Art and Design: drawing as the core recording skill, observational, analytical and experimental drawing, the range of drawing media, and recording from primary sources to gather information and develop ideas.
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How do the painting and colour media behave, and how do you use them expressively?

Painting and colour media: the properties and handling of acrylic, watercolour, gouache, oil and mixed media; techniques (glazing, impasto, wet-in-wet, drybrush); using colour media expressively and experimentally.
How the painting and colour media work in Eduqas Art and Design: the properties and handling of acrylic, watercolour, gouache, oil and mixed media, key techniques such as glazing, impasto and wet-in-wet, and using colour media expressively and experimentally.
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How do you use lens-based and light-based media to make considered images?

Photography and lens-based media: the controls of exposure and the camera; composition and light in the photograph; editing and darkroom or digital processing; photography as a fine-art and recording medium.
How lens-based media work in Eduqas Art and Design: the camera controls of exposure, composition and light in the photograph, darkroom and digital editing, and using photography as a fine-art and recording medium.
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How do the main printmaking processes work, and what does each offer?

Printmaking: relief, intaglio, planographic and stencil processes (lino and woodcut, drypoint and etching, monoprint, screenprint); the idea of the matrix and the edition; what each process offers expressively.
How printmaking works in Eduqas Art and Design: the relief, intaglio, planographic and stencil families (lino, woodcut, drypoint, etching, monoprint, screenprint), the matrix and the edition, and what each process offers expressively.
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How do the main textile processes work, and what do they offer as media?

Textiles and surface processes: constructed and decorated textiles; the main processes (stitch and embroidery, applique, printing and dyeing, felting, weaving, manipulation); fabric and fibre as expressive media.
How textile and surface processes work in Eduqas Art and Design: constructed and decorated textiles, the processes of stitch, applique, print and dye, felting, weaving and manipulation, and using fabric and fibre as expressive media.
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How do you work in three dimensions, and what processes and materials are available?

Working in three dimensions: form in real space; the main processes (modelling, carving, construction, casting, assemblage); materials (clay, plaster, card, wire, found objects); maquettes and the considerations of three-dimensional work.
How three-dimensional work is made in Eduqas Art and Design: form in real space, the processes of modelling, carving, construction, casting and assemblage, the materials available, and the role of maquettes and three-dimensional considerations.
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