Produce a systematic body of work that shows understanding of art making conventions and ideas within painting
You need to create a cohesive body of painting work across two large panels that shows you understand how painters actually work—things like colour, composition, technique, and how to develop ideas through multiple pieces. Your portfolio should show a clear visual idea that connects your works together, with evidence that you've thought carefully about your choices and refined your work as you've gone along.
You present a selection of finished paintings connected to a clear theme, with evidence that you've made deliberate choices about colour, composition, and technique, and that your ideas developed across the work.
You show a clear cycle of making, reflecting, and using what you learned to push your ideas further; your technical skills and resourcing are solid, and viewers can see how you edited and refined your work to strengthen the overall visual proposition.
You demonstrate sophisticated control of painting conventions and materials; you create early space between phases to make informed decisions about new directions; your thematic idea is strong enough to extract clear imagery and concepts that you then explore through technically accomplished paintings that show genuine progress and purposeful regeneration of ideas.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.