AS 91453 · 4 credits · Internal
Drawing from printmaking
Systematically clarify ideas using drawing informed by established printmaking practice
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This internal standard is about using drawing as a thinking and planning tool in printmaking. Over the year, students build up a body of drawings that explore and develop their printmaking ideas — looking at real printmakers' work for inspiration and using what they learn to push their own concepts forward. It's not about making finished prints; it's about showing how your ideas grow and change through a series of connected drawings.
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- ·Research and reference real printmakers' work (past or contemporary) and show how their style, techniques, or ideas have influenced your own drawings.
- ·Produce a series or sequence of drawings that clearly connect to each other, showing how your printmaking ideas are developing over time.
- ·Analyse and reflect on your drawings and the artists you've studied, explaining why you made the choices you did and where your ideas are heading.
- ·At higher grade levels, critically evaluate your own work and use that evaluation to take your ideas in new or unexpected directions — including revisiting and rethinking earlier ideas.
You produce a connected series of drawings that explore your printmaking ideas, and you show you've looked at and learned from established printmakers. Your drawings analyse and develop your concepts in a logical way.