Example of Junior Cert portfolio, by Georgia Corcoran Grade A (Higher Level) Support studies - painting and graphic design

Georgia Corcoran: support studies for painting and graphic design; for enlargement, click here

Support studies show the examiner how you created and developed your ideas for your finished pieces. As with the Prep' studies, you are marked more for your support studies than the finished piece.Support studies are to show how you got from one idea to another, and the thinking behind this. Trying to fill the page up with pictures and backround info on artists is unnecesary. Try not to have all your support studies printed off the internet. This can lead the examiner to believe that you printed them all off after you finished your pieces. Include magazine clippings and photocopies. Put descriptions with them explaining how they inspired you and helped you and names of artists, photographers etc. Not all pictures have to be explained. Don't have flaps with more stuff underneath, if there isnt room on the sheet. The examiner may or may not find it and you're not supposed to have them anyway. If your project is only loosely linked to the title, this is where you show how that happened and exagerate the link.

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