Process Portfolio
Students at HL submit carefully selected materials which demonstrate their experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the two-year course. The work, which may be extracted from their visual arts journal and other sketch books, notebooks, folios and so on, should have led to the creation of both resolved and unresolved works. The selected process portfolio work should show evidence of their technical accomplishment during the visual arts course and an understanding of the use of materials, ideas and practices appropriate to visual communication. They should be carefully selected to match the requirements of the assessment criteria at the highest possible level.
The work selected for submission should show how students have explored and worked with a variety of techniques, effects and processes in order to extend their art-making skills base. This will include focused, experimental, developmental, observational, skill-based, reflective, imaginative and creative experiments which may have led to refined outcomes.
Building Your Process Portfolio
If you had done your process pages correctly over the last year and half, you should have everything you need to compile and create your final Process Portfolio for IB. You need to make sure you fulfill the requirements laid out below to ensure you have the correct number of mediums and information to show the depth of understanding in each of those projects.
Step 3: Choose 4-5 Pieces of Artwork for Your Process Portfolio
You need to choose 4-5 pieces of artwork for your Process Portfolio. You need a minimum of 3 but to improve you score, it is best to have 4-5 different pieces to show greater depth and and understanding of the different forms and media.
You need to make sure you that you have 2 different forms (Two Dimensional, Three Dimensional, or Digital/Lens Based) and a minimum of 3 different media (painting, drawing or watercolor). For example you can have 2 charcoal drawings, 1 ceramic piece, and 1 oil painting.
These pieces do not need to be your best pieces. These pieces should be the ones that you have the greatest amount of information, examples, sketches, models, notes, and experimentation with.
Step 4: Building Your Slideshow
Once you have selected your pieces, you will be transferring that information to a digital slideshow to be assembled. You can either upload entire pages and add more information to them or you can recreate them by typing in all of the information and uploading images of your sketches and media exploration.
Use the Process Page Checklist (Sumner) to make sure you have all the information you need to present to the reader about how your process took place, what you learned, what you changed, how you over came, and all of your reflections about this process!!!
Look at these examples to get more information about how best to lay out your process pages.