[~Lc~]

oh great I leave the soc and now it starts being active;dry;

;console; Shellyholmes.. why weren't you allowed to do it?click here to join Ostentatious let me back in

[AlicePalace:)]

Hi can I join please except i'm quite new - i don't know what it means or how to do it, but i know i love art

i've just finished my art a level and i'm going to csm for foundation next year, but i'm really scared lol.

[beanlambert]

(Original post by Ostentatious)
Oooh I was told about my A2 course for next year today, sounds exciting. Basically we're each using our own interests and the things that excite us and base our whole project on it entirely, without like structure you usually have in courses. No deadlines, it's good because of the freedom but it's also risky too? Has anyone done a course like this before?

Just finished off my A2 Graphics.

It was really nice having the freedom, but personally I found that it was detrimental to my work... I very nearly messed up this year and am hoping that I hold my A from last year (297/300 ).

Having 3 (or 4?) deadlines in the AS gave me four specific points in the year to work towards. This year I just put it all off to the end and did a whole exam sketchbook in less than a week, not fun.

It's great as long as you arent a lazy bum like me, basically.

[shellyholmes]

(Original post by ~Lc~)
oh great I leave the soc and now it starts being active;dry;

;console; Shellyholmes.. why weren't you allowed to do it

my dad's a head of art (not at my school) and said i didn't deserve the A* because i hadn't worked hard enough at it.

(but then again it is very possible that he was right; my teachers were very lenient. )

[~Lc~]

that's a tad harsh
wait I don't get it, you guys get your art grades by your teachers? that's hardly fair! for IGCSEs and A-levels we had to send off our stuff to England and get it marked... I didn't mind it for IGCSEs because I was predicted a C by my teacher and ended up with a B, but I was predicted an A for my As level and ended up with a B which ticked me off

[shellyholmes]

No, our teachers mark it as a department, then a moderator from the exam board comes and we have an exhibition of work. If he thinks the marks are fair then they're left, but then we have a problem. If the teachers think a piece of art is much better than an examiner thinks, probably because they've seen how much work went into the construction of it, the examiner might move ALL the grades down without looking at them, so you really have to hope you get one that isn't insane.

We couldn't really have sent ours off though; my three canvases were all about 2x1.5 metres, and i had an extremely heavy ceramic babouschka doll that i'd made which would be sure to arrive in pieces, if at all. It would just have been too bulky to transport.

[~Lc~]

well that's how it was for my IB art course IGCSE arts was strictly learning "how to draw", but that's because my teacher chose it to be like that
all we had to do was draw still life... we were allowed to use two or three kinds of medias, which were: mainly water colours, pencil, oil pastels and inks... my teacher didn't let us venture with oils or acrylics until we started our IB art course.
it was horribly learning how to draw pots and pans at the beginning! there was this booklet she gave us where we had to draw the most annoying things! and if they weren't perfect we had to repeat them and our grade was determined from a final piece where our exam board sent us a paper with thigs we could chose from, like "poppies and daisies in a vase on a glass surface" or what I did for my IGCSEs "fruit in a bowl, with a curtain background" or something like that.. and we had to have preparatory work oh God I'm so glad it's over;yes; and that was a 10 hours exam there, where we had to draw what ever it is we chose, and send it off... and that's only 50% of our grade we had to have a 100 page research work book for the other 50% of our grade it was hell

yea I think we've done totally different courses but yea what you've done is exactly what we've done for IB

[shellyholmes]

for the GCSE we had two sketchbooks of coursework topics; one for food and drink, and one for other cultures. Another sketchbook was filled with stuff on 'structures' which was our exam topic. I ended up specialising in wrought iron gates for some reason

[~Lc~]

oh cool ;yes; so are you considering taking art at Uni?

[Ostentatious]

(Original post by ~Lc~)
well that's how it was for my IB art course IGCSE arts was strictly learning "how to draw", but that's because my teacher chose it to be like that
all we had to do was draw still life... we were allowed to use two or three kinds of medias, which were: mainly water colours, pencil, oil pastels and inks... my teacher didn't let us venture with oils or acrylics until we started our IB art course.
it was horribly learning how to draw pots and pans at the beginning! there was this booklet she gave us where we had to draw the most annoying things! and if they weren't perfect we had to repeat them and our grade was determined from a final piece where our exam board sent us a paper with thigs we could chose from, like "poppies and daisies in a vase on a glass surface" or what I did for my IGCSEs "fruit in a bowl, with a curtain background" or something like that.. and we had to have preparatory work oh God I'm so glad it's over;yes; and that was a 10 hours exam there, where we had to draw what ever it is we chose, and send it off... and that's only 50% of our grade we had to have a 100 page research work book for the other 50% of our grade it was hell

yea I think we've done totally different courses but yea what you've done is exactly what we've done for IB

Hah, that sounds fun to me, I love still life and life drawing, we were never given enough of it, all more abstract. What are IGCSE's?

[~Lc~]

International General certificate of secondary education
it's the International GCSEs.. we do them then we move on to A-levels, but I did IB instead
and yea it was fun the 2nd year, but learning how to draw it at first was a nightmare

[shellyholmes]

(Original post by ~Lc~)
oh cool ;yes; so are you considering taking art at Uni?

Nope; can't without an art A level anyway. I want to do english lit and geography.
does anyone have a favourite painting?

[Ostentatious]

Ooooh I want to go to the Summer exhibition in London, been watching it all week, even though I'm supposed to be revising.

*Updated the join requests now- Welcome a board me' hearties*

[amyshambles]

Oohhh i went to that on saturday! I thought last year's was better though, apart from two or three pieces that I really liked, but I didn't think it was as interesting as last year. I really liked Fiona Rae's thingy too.

[Ostentatious]

(Original post by amyshambles)
Oohhh i went to that on saturday! I thought last year's was better though, apart from two or three pieces that I really liked, but I didn't think it was as interesting as last year. I really liked Fiona Rae's thingy too.

Ah well I'm still going lol, I'll try and look out for that piece too. Yay.
Did you take part in the voting thing?

[wackysparkle]

I'm wackysparkle
Just joined this soc.

[Ostentatious]

Welcome!

[wackysparkle]

Thank you

[blue bubbles]

I'm blue bubbles

I joined this society aswell (plus I think wacky sparkle has a really funky avatar )

I like to draw absent mindedly and finished my gcse art a while ago but still love it.

[Pesky_Postmodernist]

ah so there is an art society, i have an odd desire to join it...

im an undergrad art student studying Painting a la Camberwell...oh and i like to paint and draw sometimes too.