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Colours can be warm, cold, complementary, contrasting, primary, secondary and tertiary.

Making Improvements

Improve your artwork by reviewing, refining, and reworking ideas. This KS3 quiz tests how artists use feedback and small changes to strengthen outcomes.

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Fascinating Fact:

Refining edges can improve focus, with sharper edges drawing attention and softer edges suggesting distance. This helps guide where the viewer looks first.

In KS3 Art and Design, “making improvements” is about developing work over time. You might adjust composition, tidy line quality, improve tonal range, or respond to feedback so the final piece communicates your intention more clearly.

Key Terms

  • Refine: To make a small, careful change that improves accuracy, clarity, or quality.
  • Evaluate: To judge what works well and what could be better, using reasons and examples.
  • Annotation: Brief notes that explain choices, processes, and improvements in your sketchbook.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

How do I improve my art in KS3?

In KS3, you can improve your art by reviewing your work, picking one target like tone or composition, testing changes in a sketchbook, and then updating the final piece.

What does “refine” mean in art?

In art, refine means making controlled improvements, such as cleaning up shapes, strengthening contrast, adjusting proportions, or improving detail so the work looks more intentional.

How do I respond to feedback in a sketchbook?

Write the feedback in your sketchbook, explain what you will change, and show evidence by doing a small test or a before-and-after step that proves the improvement.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .
Why is it important to make changes and improvements to a piece of art?
Because everybody else does it
Because a few changes could make a massive improvement
Because the art teacher says so
To waste some time in the lesson
Even world-renowned artists can't turn out perfect artwork first time around!
2 .
Which of these options might help to improve a piece of art?
Keeping adding things until the page is full
Removing some elements altogether
Hiding it away and never looking at it again
Giving it as a gift
There is a saying 'Less is more' and, in some cases, this is very true!
3 .
A good understanding of tone and shade is useful for what purpose?
For choosing different colours correctly
For spending more time on a piece
For seeing where you could add extra details
For adding realistic elements, such as shadows
Adding lighter areas and increasing shading to form shadow can really help to improve a piece of work
4 .
If an artist is struggling to see ways of improving their art, what might they do?
Ask friends or fellow artists for advice and opinions
Start again
Give the art away
Keep going and hope for the best
Sometimes the opinions of others can provide a turning point for a piece of art
5 .
All expressions of art begin with what?
A pencil
A concept
A programme on TV
A story
A concept is an idea formed in the mind, which will help the artist express how something will be accomplished
6 .
Which of the following could be a key factor in making improvements to your art?
What you decide to have for breakfast
Whether or not you wear glasses
What you wear to work in
Having a clean and organised working environment
If your work space is dark, cluttered, dusty, cramped or messy, it could be difficult to make improvements to your techniques and skills
7 .
What can be cool, warm, complementary, contrasting, primary, secondary and tertiary?
Colours
Pencils
Artists' studios
Schools
A good understanding of the colour wheel will help you make improved colour choices for your work
8 .
Adding rhythm to a piece of art achieves what effect?
It can add a soundtrack to the artwork
It can help you play a musical instrument
It can help you make matching artworks
It can move the viewer’s eye throughout the work of art
Colour and light patterns, texture and application of paint can all be used to create rhythm and improve your art
9 .
It is important for artists to see the spaces between and around the objects they draw. What are these spaces known as?
Positive spaces
Negative spaces
Neutral spaces
Blank spaces
Learning to see and draw the shapes between the lines that make up an object with help you improve the way you draw
10 .
What is the composition of a piece?
How much the artist is paid for the work
Any music which accompanies the artwork
A story about the art
The arrangement and placement of visual elements
Although composition is very important, some artists, such as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, chose to ignore traditional approaches in order to challenge the viewer!
Author:  Angela Smith (Primary School Teacher & KS1 Quiz Writer)
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