AOS 3: Documenting and reflecting on the Creative Practice

Key knowledge

  • methods used to document and evaluate the use of the Creative Practice
  • approaches to making and presenting visual responses that communicate ideas of personal interest
  • the use of critical and reflective thinking throughout the Creative Practice
  • methods used to reflect on and evaluate visual language
  • methods used to evaluate the use of materials, techniques and processes in personal visual responses
  • the use of the Structural Lens and the Personal Lens in annotations to analyse and reflect upon visual responses

Key skills

  • document and evaluate the use of the Creative Practice, using written and visual documentation
  • analyse and reflect upon ideas of personal interest communicated in visual responses
  • use and document critical and reflective thinking throughout the Creative Practice
  • document and evaluate the development of visual language
  • document and evaluate the materials, techniques and processes used to make personal visual responses
  • apply the Structural Lens and the Personal Lens in annotations to analyse and reflect upon visual responses

TASK

You will do this at the same time as AOS 2.

Option:

Using a journal format, progressively record and evaluate the Creative Practice with photographs, sketches, and annotations. For each art form, make photographs, sketches and notes that critically evaluate personal visual responses.

Include:

  • Date
  • Visual responses (pasted in or copies of)
  • Artform
  • Inspiration
  • Observations
  • Activity
  • Observations
  • Personal response
  • Developing visual language
  • Critical evaluation

Other options:

  • Make a poster that shows visual responses to the work and art form of a selected artist. Observe how the visual responses were informed by the inspiration and the potential and limitations of the materials.
  • Video response, with narration and slideshow
  • Detailed annotations in visual diary accompanying your visual responses (real and documented/photographed)

Folio examples from Top Arts 2025

Link to Top Arts Hub —> HERE