Edexcel GCSE Art and Design working with media and techniques overview quiz quiz

AO1

AO2

AO3

AO4

They behave identically and dry to exactly the same transparent finish on paper

Acrylic cannot be thinned with water and must always be used straight from the tube

Watercolour is transparent and worked light to dark; acrylic is opaque and can be layered

Watercolour dries permanently just like dry acrylic and cannot be re-wetted or lifted once it is down

The paint is too old and has expired in the tube before use

Acrylic is always muddy whatever way you choose to apply it

The brush is far too clean and removes the pigment as you work

Wet colours mix on the surface and dull each other

Relief gives repeatable editions of cut shapes; monoprint gives a single unique print

They are the same process and both reliably produce identical repeatable editions

Monoprint can only ever be made with an industrial press and never by hand burnishing

Relief printing cannot use ink and instead transfers an image using pressure alone

It is quick and needs no planning, exploring or refining of the image at all

A block can produce many prints, so you can experiment with colours, papers and layers and refine through proofing

It needs no review, evaluation or refinement of ideas once the block is first cut

It is the only single medium allowed under the Edexcel specification for any printmaking coursework project you submit

They are the same process, both adding soft material to build a form gradually

Carving uses only soft clay and never harder solid materials such as wood or stone

Modelling adds soft material (additive); carving removes from a block (subtractive)

Modelling always produces larger finished works than carving from a solid block does

Framing and presenting the finished gallery pieces for an exhibition

Cleaning sculpting tools and removing dried clay between work sessions

Mounting and displaying photographs neatly within a sketchbook page

Small trial models to test forms and proportions before committing

Its silhouette, mass, void and surface change as you move around it

It only ever matters when viewed straight on from the front, like a painting

Sculpture is always essentially flat and reads the same way from every side

Considering it in the round is done only to save material and reduce its weight

It is taken on an expensive professional camera rather than a phone

It controls light, focus, exposure, viewpoint and composition

It is always converted to black and white before it can be presented

It is never edited, cropped or adjusted in any way after being captured

Only as decoration to fill empty space on a sketchbook page

Only ever as a single final piece, never as research or recording

Primary recording for AO1 and AO3, and a refined edited series as an AO4 outcome

Only to copy other artists' finished images directly without any of your own development

It is cheaper and that is the only reason artists ever choose to do it

It uses up far more paint than reaching for many ready-made tube colours

Tube colours are banned by the exam board and may not appear in a project

It gives harmony and teaches how colour behaves

Deliberately refining composition, tone and mood and keeping the stages visible

Applying a single ready-made preset filter once and accepting whatever it does

Never editing the image at all and simply presenting the raw camera file as it is

Editing only the file name and folder of the image rather than the picture itself