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NAVIGATION ⬲

Hi! Welcome to A-Level Foundation Art!

Here I will be sharing the coursework programme and some of my work for my AS/A-Level Art class. Unlike my other subject blogs, I won’t be able to share ordered notes for each class, because I don’t actually have any live classes!

The Foundational Art course is split into three stages: the Exploratory, Pathway, and Confirmatory stages. The exploratory stage introduces you to different areas and aspects of the art world — “art” is such a broad term! The pathway stage allows you to choose a select few sections to explore more in-depth and study in a more advanced manner, and, finally, the confirmatory stage is when you start deciding more solidly what area you would like to study seriously, or go on to pursue at university. You start sending college applications, and exploring different possible careers in your designated medium(s), all while developing your skills and understanding of the subject to a more proficient level.

During each of these stages, I will have a number of projects to complete — these are mostly compiled research, analyses of different artist’s pieces, and implementation of techniques in my own works. For copyright purposes, I don’t know how much of my own creations I’m going to share on here, but I can post the requirements for the different projects, and my approach towards/progress with them. That way, anyone who may be interested to give it a go on their own will have a basic idea of what’s studied and expected in an A-level art class, forming a helpful starting-point for their own work.

This blog is part of an umbrella account documenting all my other classes too (I take Psychology, Art, and Maths). For this reason, asks are only open on my main blog. See the links in the menu on my page to access my other blogs. I will include a link to my main below.

Some useful links:

Main Blog (Astre’s Notes)

Tag Guide — important!

Ask box

Projects list (?) under the cut

Foundational Art

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Pathway

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Exploratory

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Confirmatory

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Hub

(This blog is currently under construction)

Hello! Welcome to Astre’s Notes, a blog dedicated to cataloguing all my notes for the coming school year.

I study AS/A-Level Maths, Art, and Psychology. My aim is to provide high-quality learning resources for anyone interested in these subjects, who may have not gotten the opportunity to study them like I did. In a way, I am pirating my own £10,000 Cambridge classes. And I’m okay with that, because I know how frustrating it is when education is hard to access and money isn’t as expendable.

Here are some useful tips and links to help you orientate yourself on this blog:

Tag Guide

Ask page

All my notes will be categorised by subject, topic, and lesson. I have dedicated separate blogs to each course; links to all of them are in my menu or under the search bar on my page (please note that these do not appear on the mobile pop-up version of my blog) :

Maths — ⭐️

Art — 🌙

Psychology — 💨

If you are only interested in one of these subjects, feel free to only affiliate yourself with the respective blog. Similarly, if you wish to follow more than one subject but are overwhelmed by all the different sources, fear not! I will be reblogging all the class content I post onto this account, so you can access it all from here.

One more thing to note is that, other than when labelling lessons with the universal YYYYMMDD, I use the British dating system, dd/mm/yy. So whenever you see a date written in that format, the first digit is the day and the second is the month :)

That being said, under the cut is a compiling list of my notes from all my courses. Please remember to take care of yourselves; drink plenty of water, eat enough food and get enough sleep. Take regular breaks when you need them, and remember to do things you love as well as your school/job work. Gaining knowledge is useless if we don’t take care of the body and mind that absorb it.

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Psychology

Topic 1: Introduction 4/4

Lesson 1.1 — Introduction to Psychology — 20220906 Lesson 1.2 — Introduction, Learning Theory, and Cognition — 20220907 Lesson 1.3 — Introduction, Biological Psychology — 20220912 Lesson 1.4 — Introduction, Types of Psychological Research, Experimental Research, Self Report Research — 20220913

Topic 2: Dement and Kleitman 2/?

Lesson 2.1 — Introduction to Dement and Kleitman — 20220914 Lesson 2.2 — Dement and Kleitman — 20220920

Topic 3: Hasset et al. 0/?

Lesson 3.1 —

Topic 4: Hölzel et al. 0/?

Lesson 4.1 —

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Art

Topic 1:

Lesson 1.1 —

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Maths

Topic 1: Quadratics 1/?

Lesson 1.1 — Solving by factorising quadratics — 20220906 Lesson 1.2 — Practicing factorising quadratics — 20220909 Lesson 1.3 — Completing the square — 20220913 Lesson 1.4 — Harder quadratic equations and solving through substitution — 20220920

Topic 2: Velocity & Acceleration 1/?

Lesson 2.1 — Displacement & Velocity — 20220907 Lesson 2.2 — Acceleration and displacement-time graphs — 20220914

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Tags

I will be cataloguing everything with specific tags, in order to make it easier to find any lesson.

The tags follow a similar format for all subjects. Just replace ��YYYYMMDD” with the year, month, and day of the lesson you’re looking for, “X.X” with the lesson number, and “{Topic}” with the specific topic you’re looking for. All lessons will also be tagged with their title, but I that tag will not be affiliated with my blog because then it gets too complicated (and also it’d be impossible for people who need help to find).

(Tip: “X.X” stands for “Topic.Lesson”. Some topics might have multiple lessons that go with it, so it would be labelled “{topic number}.{lesson number}”. Don’t worry, I will list all the topics for each subject, and the number of lessons they include, in the master posts for each course.)

Maths: #⭐️X.X #⭐️YYYYMMDD #⭐️{Topic}

Psychology: #💨X.X #💨YYYYMMDD #💨{Topic}

Art: #🌙X.X #🌙YYYYMMDD #🌙{Topic}

Example: If I’m looking for the first lesson of my psychology class, I’d search “💨1.1”, if I wanted the art lesson from the 8th of September, I would look up “🌙20220908”, or if I was looking for all the lessons under the subject of quadratics in maths, I would type “⭐️Quadratics”.

Finally, all of my posts will be tagged with #astresnotes, #A-Levels, the subject they represent (#art, #maths, or #psychology), any additional subject tag I might think is necessary for simplicity, and the name & url of its representative blog (i.e. any post from my maths blog will be tagged with #A-Level-Mathematics and #astresnotes-maths, because those are the title and url of that blog).

Safe travels! 🤍