St PetersCE Primary School
The Art Graduate Award Scheme is your opportunity to deepen your knowledge and help your art learning come to life beyond the classroom.
In order to become an art graduate, you will need to complete a creative project that shows your ideas, skills, and imagination. This will involve:
- Developing and filling a sketchbook
- Exploring an artist
- Creating a final piece of artwork
Your project will need to be based around one of the following themes:
- Nature and the Natural World
- Journeys
- Fairytales and myths
Develop a sketchbook
Fill a sketchbook with your creative journey, including:
- Experiments with colour, tone, texture, and materials
- Observational drawings from real life and/or your own photographs
- Ideas, annotations and evaluations explaining your thinking and choices
Your sketchbook could be a simple homemade book, e.g. a concertina sketchbook, or we can provide you with one from school (this does not need to be filled completely).
Explore an artist
Explore the work of one of the following artists:
- Arthur Rackham (Fairytales and myths)
- Rinko Kawauchi (Journeys)
- Geogia O'Keeffe (Nature and the natural world)
Research their style, techniques and ideas by looking closely at their artwork and learning about how and why they create.
Record your findings in your sketchbook using notes, drawings and experiments with materials. Try out some of the artist’s techniques and styles for yourself.
Use what you have learned to inspire your own artwork, clearly showing how the artist has influenced your ideas, choices of colour, materials, patterns or techniques.
Create a final piece of art
Produce one finished artwork based on your chosen theme and artist inspiration.
This could be:
• A sculpture
• A painting
• A drawing
• A photograph
• A mixed-media piece
Your final piece should show your best work and bring together everything you have learned during the project, including the techniques, ideas and styles you have explored.