I am the head of a busy and successful Art and Design department with over 10 years of experience. The resources I provide are the ones we use in our department to engage with our brilliant young people and develop their Art and design skills toward excellence.
I am the head of a busy and successful Art and Design department with over 10 years of experience. The resources I provide are the ones we use in our department to engage with our brilliant young people and develop their Art and design skills toward excellence.
A project for students to complete at home based on four surreal artists, two contemporary (Leszek Kostuj and Lora Zombie) and two from Art History (Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte).
The project involves writing about a piece of Art and copying sections from each artist.
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QUALITY resource to guide students in writing in detail about pieces of Artwork for GCSE and A Level. Students will create an in depth essay covering comparisons, time-lines of the artist, content, form, mood, processes and much more. All done in using the easy to remember acronym, AWESOME.
A - about the Artist, W - what’s in the picture, E - elements of the picture, S - story created, O - other artists’ work, M - method and media, E - explain your opinion
Essays written using these resources have been praised by examiners every year at moderation.
Homework booklets to be used with KS3 students to help them practice drawing objects and portrait features from Photographs. Two booklets of 11 pages, each with 7 high quality photographs for students to use a grid method to copy the shapes. The resource also includes a page for teacher and self assessment focusing on specific drawing skills to be demonstrated through the tasks.
A series of two abstract art projects that work together to teach two approaches to abstract art and focus on the work of the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Stella, Beatriz Milhazes, Sarah Morris, Picasso, Mondrian, and Cezanne. The projects would be ideal for KS3 students and together would take between 12 and 16 hours. The projects are easy to follow and are full of resources, students could even follow the plan through distance- learning.
A complete project for Art, design and technology covering about 10 lessons. The project takes students through designing a logo, designing a font, then creating carrier bag for a shop they choose themselves.
The project could be used for KS3 but could also be used to start a piece of GCSE coursework for Art and Design or Graphic design.
There are opportunities to analyse logo designs and look at the evolution of logo designs alongside the designing work.
The project includes lots of visual resources and clear step by step instructions and could even be used by a non specialist teacher. The powerpoint has 94 slides.
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Resources prompting students to experiment with ideas and explore different techniques and approaches in creating their art through 5 mini projects. Students will take their own personal starting point and take influence from a wide range of artists. The powerpoints include images from over 40 different artists and direct students to explore overlapping and merging images, working on interesting surfaces, working with collage, incorporating text into their Art, and including pattern. Some of the artists in the powerpoints include:
Marie Esther, Dimitra Milan, Manny Robertson, Sammy Slabbinck, Loui Jover, Chris Lord, Martin O’Neill, Ed Fairburn, Stephanie Ledoux, Darlene McElroy, Andrew Slagado, Thaneeya McArdle, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Mel Bochner, and Stuart Semple.
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A frame for creating a written piece of work critically analysing a work of Art. Aimed at KS4 and KS5 students. The resource features in depth questions to answer and sentence starters as well as ideas to extend the content and subject specific vocabulary.
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Mini project including three tasks based on mark making and Henry Moore’s sheep drawings using fineliner pen or biro.
Task one is to try some mark making techniques using pen, task two is to copy a section of one of Henry Moore’s pieces, and task three is to draw a sheep from a photograph using similar mark making to Henry Moore.
The project could be undertaken by KS3 or KS4.
There are two versions, each with different images for students to choose from.
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A small project based on the artist Frida Kahlo that could be delivered by non specialists or to a greater depth by a specialist teacher. The powerpoint and resource sheet work together to direct student to learn about Frida Kahlo’s life , to analyse one of her paintings, and to create a personal response to her work. This could form teh beginning of a whole scheme of work based on her life and art. The resource contains a student friendly biography and a quiz based on her life.
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Help for a new head of an Art and Design department: a calendar of all of the tasks that are essential to the smooth running of the department. These include when to make orders, what actions are needed for exam groups and exam boards and when they are needed, when to focus on the management of staff, and when to plan for trips in the year among many others.
A booklet that can be used as a homework for KS3 students based the Pop Art movement and the artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The project involves the students doing some research and answering questions about the artists, then copying one of their pieces of Art.
It should take the students between 4 and 8 hours.
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Our whole curriculum overview for years 7 -13, praised by OFSTED, comprehensively covering a wide range of skills with each year group and building on them in each subsequent year. This is an example of what you could do with your own department in terms of curriculum provision. It is also an example of the sort of document that you could refer to in any meeting with an OFSTED inspector and could easily be tweaked to contain your own current provision. The last column was particularly praised where each unit of work at KS3 is clearly linked to GCSE and A Level specifications and marking criteria.
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A range of projects based on surrealism that would be perfect for distance learning. Each project builds creative and imaginative approaches to creating art as well as learning about the lives and art of some of the surrealists including Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Leszek Kostuj, Lora Zombie, Johanna Goodman and Matthias Jung. Each project include a vast array of visual resources and plenty of detailed guidance.
A 2D Abstract Art project that would take between 4 and 6 lessons and could even be the basis of a much longer project based on the work of Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Cezanne. Students create a number of drawings of teapots and still life, then they spend time changing the shapes, forms, and colours, and add pattern to turn those initial drawings into abstract Art. Students are encouraged to abstract the shapes etc. as much as they wish and it is reinforced that there isn’t a wrong answer when it comes to Abstract Art.
This project could be used to teach KS3 students or KS4 students.
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Influenced by the American painters, David Salle and James Rosenquist, students will create a piece of work including 30 - 50 objects that represent them. The project takes 5 - 6 lessons to complete and focuses on composition and drawing objects from students’ imaginations.
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A painting and collage project based on the artist Loui Jover’s work where students create a mixed media piece based on an observational drawing of an eye. The painting involves dripping and splattering brightly coloured paint over a monochromatic eye. ** If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks**
A mini project for creating a surreal collage with step by step detailed instructions. Based on the artists Johanna Goodman and Matthias Jung, students will create two collages, one in the style of each artist. There are plenty of visual resources to aid students in creating their own artworks.
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Three homework projects on the Artists Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. In each project students will copy a piece of the artist’s work and analyse it. These projects would be ideal for distance-learning and for students to continue to develop their Art skills and knowledge at home
A frame for creating a written piece of work critically analysing a work of Art. Aimed at KS3 and KS4 students. The resource features questions to answer and sentence starters as well as ideas to extend the content and subject specific vocabulary.
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A checklist of tasks for the whole year for your Art and Design technician. Tasks are broken down into daily, weekly, monthly, termly and yearly tasks. The resource also includes a timetable for requests of assistance at the start and end of lessons and a form for requests of other tasks.
