Visual Arts study guides

A complete Eduqas GCSE Art and Design guide to contextual and critical studies: analysing an artwork, art movements and periods, studying named artists, and writing critically about art, all in the service of AO1 critical understanding of sources that feeds your own work.

A complete Eduqas GCSE Art and Design guide to media, techniques and processes: drawing and painting media, printmaking, working in three dimensions, photography and lens-based media, textiles and surface techniques, and digital and mixed media, all chosen appropriately and refined for AO2.

A complete Eduqas GCSE Art and Design guide to the creative process and the Portfolio (Component 1, 60 percent, 72 marks): the seven endorsed titles, what the Portfolio must contain, how to structure a sustained project, generate and develop ideas, annotate and evaluate, and select and present the work.

A complete Eduqas GCSE Art and Design guide to the Externally Set Assignment (Component 2, 40 percent, 48 marks): the question paper and starting points, the preparatory period, the 10-hour supervised exam, planning and pacing the final outcome, and connecting the outcome to the preparatory work.

A complete Eduqas GCSE Art and Design guide to the four assessment objectives in practice: AO1 develop, AO2 refine, AO3 record and AO4 present, each a quarter of the marks, plus how the 120-mark total, holistic best-fit marking, moderation and 9 to 1 grades work.

A complete Eduqas GCSE Art and Design guide to visual language and the formal elements: line and mark-making, tone and form, colour and its effects, shape, form, texture and pattern, and composition, used purposefully to carry meaning and evidence AO3 and AO4.