This document provides guidance for media experiments in GCSE and A Level art courses. Students are instructed to experiment with at least 5 materials for GCSE and 8 for A Level, annotating their work by explaining the materials used and their opinions. A long list of potential materials is given, including various drawing, painting, printmaking, digital, and mixed media. Students are also encouraged to experiment with techniques like continuous line drawing and different color schemes. Example boards are shown combining techniques like tonal pencil, brusho, and watercolor; photoshop and etching; and combining transfers with sewing.

2. Media Experiments ‘AO2’
Your next task is to experiment with a range of materials. This is
important as it shows that you have explored different ideas for
your final outcome.
You must experiment
with at LEAST…
- 5 for GCSE
- 8 for A Level
Don’t forget to
annotate your work!
Explaining what
materials you have
used, what you like
and don’t like about
it, and how it relates
to your project
Materials you could use…
-Pencil
-Biro
-Fineliner
-Ink
-Conte and Charcoal
-Paint
-Brusho
-Coffee
-Collage and mixed media
-Mono printing
-Etching
-Lino Printing
-Photography
-Photoshop
-Phone App editing
-Darkroom work
-Cyanotypes
-Sewing
-Pyrography
-Image transferring
-Clay
-Wire
You can also experiment by trying out different colour schemes and exploring different drawing techniques
such as continuous line drawing
Use your own Photographs to work
from and add Artist links to get marks
for A01 + A03 as well
different materials
(this does include the
materials you have
used for your
observational work
and your photography)

3. On the next few slides
are ideas to help you
decide what media you
want to experiment
with…
When you create these
boards title them….
‘Media Experiments’
or the name of the
media eg: ‘Etching’

5. Tonal Pencil, Biro, Fineliner….

6. Tonal Pencil, Brusho, Watercolour Fineliner….

15. Photoshop + Etching

17. Photoshop
-Filters
-Double Exposure
-Colour Splash
-Colour
Adjustments

18. Photo Aps
- Photoshop
- AfterFocus
- Alt Photo
- BlurFX
- Camera+
- Diptic
- Distressed
- EyeEm
- FilterStorm
- FrontView
- Glaze
- Hipstamatic
- Image Blender
- Iris
- Mextures
- PicFX
- Rainy Daze
- Fragment
- Superimpose

19. Darkroom
Photography

20. Acetate darkroom
work

21. Cyanotype is a
photographic printing
process that produces a
cyan-blue print. Engineers
used the process well into the
20th century as a simple and
low-cost process to produce
copies of drawings, referred
to as blueprints. The process
uses two chemicals:
ammonium iron(III) citrate
and potassium ferricyanide.

26. Dry Point Etching

28. Monoprinting

29. Lino Printing

31. Acetate Transfer

32. Acetate Transfer and Sewing

33. Acetate Transfer and Sewing

34. Pyrography

35. Image Transfer onto wood