4.3 Produce evidence of every stage of production

You must show all the elements of your journey: “show your working out“

If you are going to produce a painting with lots of layers, you need to document its progression so that the external moderator doesn't miss all your activity

You could make a schematic diagram like this one in a nearly planning section of your sketchbook

See the full presentation on 'Painting with Layers' at

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g5GMySbESRtGCJXISdl959_ImmESZu7Nv-aMMKWpW8g/edit?usp=sharing

You could also take regular photographs of the stages of your painting so that they can see the actual development - you will need to caption these with evaluation to score a higher grade.

Like maths, you can’t present an outcome that springs from nothing without any supporting work - you need to show your working out. In Fine Art, you have to show the stages of the evolution of your development:

By doing this, you will evidence each of the decisions that you have taken and show how you built on one technique or process to the next
This will have a positive impact on what you do and separation will make each thought, practice and execution much more secure and straight forward
You will become less self conscious about what you do and then be more successful at it

Document the stages of production: show the layers of underpainting that you have made

In may schools and colleges, more advanced painting techniques like underpainting and working in layers are not explored in the way that we do routinely in Lewes.

You need to draw attention to your processes so that they are readily apparent to the moderator. You need to highlight and signpost them so that they can recognise all the things that you have done in the work to make it full and complete.

Remember that the exam board regularly complain that students lose focus in explaining the second half of their project

This is an important point. Moderators mention this explicitly every year: students need to show the development of their projects from the middle point on until the development of the final piece. They then need to continue reviewing and evaluating the progress and development of the final piece.

Moderators complain that many students do not show the development from the research and exploration phases of their projects and explicitly demonstrate how these phases link to the work they do in the second half of the project.

Moderators say each year that this loses students marks and inhibits their grade achievements.

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