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Media, techniques and processes

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What do digital and mixed media offer, and how are they used purposefully?

Digital and mixed media: using digital tools (image editing, design software) and combining media (collage, layering, photo-media with paint) purposefully, so the combination or digital process serves the idea and is developed rather than used as a one-step effect.
Digital and mixed media in Eduqas GCSE Art and Design: using digital tools and combining media (collage, layering, photo-media with paint) purposefully so the process serves the idea and is developed, not used as a one-step effect.
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What can different drawing and painting media do, and how do you choose and refine them?

Drawing and painting media: the characteristics of dry and wet media (pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolour, acrylic, oil) and how to explore and refine an appropriate medium so the technique suits the idea rather than sampling materials at random.
Drawing and painting media in Eduqas GCSE Art and Design: the characteristics of dry and wet media (pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolour, acrylic, oil) and how to explore and refine an appropriate medium so the technique suits the idea.
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What does lens-based work involve, and how is photography developed as an art process?

Photography and lens-based media: using composition, light, viewpoint and focus to make considered images, and developing photography as an art process through shooting, selecting, editing and refining toward a personal outcome, not snapshots.
Photography and lens-based media in Eduqas GCSE Art and Design: using composition, light, viewpoint and focus to make considered images, and developing photography through shooting, selecting, editing and refining toward a personal outcome.
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What are the main printmaking techniques, and how do you use them purposefully?

Printmaking techniques: the main relief, intaglio and stencil methods (monoprint, lino and block printing, screen printing, etching) and how the matrix, editioning and registration work, used to explore and refine an appropriate process for the idea.
Printmaking in Eduqas GCSE Art and Design: the main relief, intaglio and stencil methods (monoprint, lino and block printing, screen printing, etching), the matrix, editioning and registration, used to explore and refine an appropriate process.
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What does textile and surface work involve, and how do you develop a textile sample into an outcome?

Textiles and surface techniques: the main constructed and decorative processes (stitch, applique, print, dye, weave and surface manipulation) and how samples are explored and refined into a developed textile outcome appropriate to the idea.
Textiles and surface techniques in Eduqas GCSE Art and Design: the main processes (stitch, applique, print, dye, weave, surface manipulation) and how samples are explored and refined into a developed textile outcome appropriate to the idea.
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What does working in three dimensions involve, and how do you develop a 3D outcome?

Working in three dimensions: the main 3D approaches (modelling, carving, construction, assemblage and ceramics) and how form, materials, maquettes and the use of real space are explored and refined toward a three-dimensional outcome.
Working in three dimensions in Eduqas GCSE Art and Design: the main approaches (modelling, carving, construction, assemblage, ceramics), and how form, materials, maquettes and real space are explored and refined toward a 3D outcome.
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