OCR GCSE Art and Design media, techniques and processes overview quiz quiz

Using as many different materials as you possibly can on every single page, whatever the idea

Always using pencil for everything because it is the safest and most familiar drawing material

Choosing an appropriate medium whose behaviour suits the idea, then refining it

Choosing whichever medium happens to be the cheapest and easiest to get hold of

They behave in exactly the same way as each other, so it makes no difference whatsoever which of the two you happen to reach for

Pen is always darker and bolder than charcoal in every situation, no matter how it is used

Charcoal can only make pale, light marks and is unable to produce any genuinely dark tones

Charcoal is soft and tonal (broad darks, smudges); pen makes a sharp, permanent line and builds tone by hatching

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

They behave in exactly the same way as each other and are completely interchangeable in absolutely any painting you might attempt

Watercolour is a thick, opaque paint that always hides the paper completely beneath every wash

Acrylic dries far too quickly to ever be layered or built up in more than one single coat

Ink collects down inside the lines that you scratch into the block, and only those lines print

You cut away the areas that stay white, and ink on the raised, uncut surface prints

The whole flat surface of the block prints evenly with no cutting or carving needed

It relies entirely on a computer and printer to transfer the design onto the paper

Monoprints are always made on a much larger scale than lino prints can ever be

Lino prints fade away after only a short time, while monoprints last for many years

A monoprint's image exists only as wet ink for one transfer; a lino block is carved and can be reprinted

Monoprints are made entirely without any ink at all, which is the reason they can never be repeated more than once

There is no real difference between the two; the words describe exactly the same way of working

Subtractive processes are always much faster to complete than additive ones, whatever the material

Additive processes can only ever be carried out using metal and never using clay, plaster, card or any other material at all

Additive builds up material (clay, construction) and is reworkable; subtractive carves material away and is permanent

A 3D piece is read in the round from every angle and shapes the space around and within it

It does not need any thought about space, only about the solid form of the object itself

Space is something that only ever matters in photography and never in three dimensional work

A piece of 3D work really has only one correct viewpoint, just like a flat drawing does

Simply owning a more expensive camera with the very latest features

Deliberate choices of viewpoint, framing, light and focus

Taking a far larger number of photos than you would normally

Adding a ready-made filter over the top once the photo is taken

Any images at all, including ones you have found online or in books

Only images that you have drawn carefully by hand from observation

Your own photographs of real subjects, not found internet images

Only photographs that have been taken in black and white, never colour

There is no real difference at all between the two of them; both of the terms simply describe the very same way of working with cloth

Decorated textiles are always made digitally on a computer, never by hand with stitch or dye

Constructed textiles can never be given any colour at all and must always stay plain and undyed

Constructed textiles make the fabric itself (weaving, felting); decorated textiles treat an existing surface (stitch, dye, print)

A resist (wax) blocks dye from masked areas, so they keep their colour while the rest is dyed

By carefully painting the whole of the pattern on with a fine brush only after the dyeing is completely finished

By weaving the coloured pattern directly into the threads of the cloth as it is made

By pressing a carved block loaded with dye onto the surface to stamp the repeating pattern

It does not matter in the slightest how the different media are combined on the page, just as long as several of them are used together somewhere

A deliberate combination has each medium add what the others cannot, serving one idea; a random one reads as busy and unresolved

Using more media will always score higher marks, however and whyever you happen to combine them

Only digital media such as photography and software can ever be sensibly combined together