ART · Week 4 · GROW · Identity in Art · Arts Award Explore → Bronze

Create the Piece

Your plan · One borrowed idea · Your hands

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Today is a hands-on lesson — we learn by doing.

ARRIVAL TASK · do now, no help needed

Fair borrowing — or copying?

Tap a card, then tap where it belongs. Have a go — wrong answers are welcome here.

While you wait: look at the BHM artist’s work on screen — find one idea small enough to fit in your pocket.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

LO: To create my identity artwork using ideas from an artist who inspires me.

✓ I can name one borrowed idea and its artist.

✓ I can build my piece from my Week 3 plan.

✓ I can photograph the stages as I go.

Success criteria: By the end you will have tested a borrowed idea on scrap, built your identity piece from last week’s plan with the borrowed idea worked in, and photographed the stages — evidence into the Explore log with the artist credited (AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’).

GCSE Stretch: annotate one stage photo sketchbook-style: what I did, why, what changed — that IS a GCSE development page.

STARTER · talk task

One artist, one pocket-sized idea

This Black History Month artist’s work fills the screen. Don’t look for the whole style — hunt for ONE pocket-sized idea: a colour pair, an outline weight, a texture move. With your partner: what would YOU pocket?

Sentence stems:
“I’d pocket the…”
“It would work in my piece because…”
“Their big style I’ll leave — my piece is…”

I DO · teacher explains

Borrow small, credit loud, make yours

🤏 Borrow small

One idea only. A pocketed colour pair improves your piece; a lifted whole style erases it.

📣 Credit loud

Name the artist in your log — “I borrowed ___ from ___”. Crediting is what separates influence from theft, in classrooms and in galleries.

🛠️ The plan drives

Your Week 3 plan is the boss: its idea, its materials, its technique, its symbol. The borrowed idea serves YOUR plan, never the reverse.

📷 Stages

Start, middle, wherever you reach — photographed. Unfinished is a valid state; undocumented isn’t.

Misconception: ~~“Real artists work from pure imagination — borrowing is weakness.”~~ Every artist you’ve met this term borrowed — surrealists from dreams and each other, Kahlo from Mexican folk art. Influence is the engine of art; crediting it is the honesty.

WE DO · together on the board

Sort the moves — fair borrowing, or copying?

HANDS-ON · the main event

Make it ✋

Ground rule (60 seconds): aprons on, respect every half-made piece — and the plan on your desk outranks every passing suggestion, including an adult’s.

Station 1 · SCRAP TEST

Test the pocketed idea on scrap: the colour pair, the outline weight, the texture move. Sixty seconds of scrap protects an hour of piece.

Station 2 · CREATE

Build from your plan: idea, materials, technique, symbol — borrowed idea worked in where it serves. Texture and material routes stay fully open.

Station 3 · STAGE & CREDIT

Photograph the stages in order. Credit line into the log: “I borrowed ___ from ___” — spoken then key words in your own hand.

GCSE Stretch: annotate one stage photo: what I did / why / what changed — stick it in the sketchbook as a development page.

EVIDENCE · Arts Award Explore log (toward Bronze) · staged photos · AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’

Capture your evidence

Staged photos banked in order. Complete the credit and pride lines (key words in your own hand):

My name:

I borrowed ___ from ___ (idea + artist):

The stage I’m proudest of, and why:

Skills I used today (tick with your TA): Creativity · Independence · Resilience

Feedback loop: your teacher will deep-mark one part of this in dark green and draw a Yellow Box. Next lesson you respond inside it in a coloured pen of your choice.

EXIT TICKET

Show what you know

1. The healthy borrow is…

2. Whose plan drives your piece?

3. Unfinished work at the end of today is…