BTEC EQV. Level 2 Art & Design Online Course

This exciting course has 4 units designed to ensure you produce a stimulating and rewarding art & Design project (s) which allow you develop your knowledge, skills, understanding and confidence in developing your interests and ideas in an artistic way.

Exploratory Stage: This first part of the course takes you through a programme of developing skills in drawing, painting, mixed media (collage), digital art and 3d (sculpture). Pathway Stage: In this second part of the course you will be asked to make an art project within a speciallist pathway that is related to a theme which is of personal interest to you.

Previous themes have included:

'The way I look'

"My Manga World"

"I Me & Mine"

'Bully'

"Success'

"Acceptance'

"Delicate"

"Overhead and Underneath'

"Surfaces'

"Precious"

"Through The Keyhole'

"My Dream World"

"Taken"

Pathways include: Illustration (including Manga), Textiles, Fashion, 3D (including Sculpture), Animation, Photography, Architectural Design, Digital Art, Printmaking, Fine Art, Craft, Painting.

Your artwork will be assessed against the following 4 units:

1. A/602/6142 Investigating information and developing research techniques - Mandatory Unit

1. K/602/6251 Developing and handling media and materials - Mandatory Unit

1. M/602/6252 Recognising and applying visual language and formal elements within production techniques - Mandatory Unit

1. A/602/6254 Working to set briefs - Mandatory Unit

Formative as courses progress and summative at the end of units and the course. Your Final Major Project will be assessed externally by the exam board and this will decide your final grade. You will be kept informed every step of the way on how to improve your work.