Exercises, activities to develop an understanding of shape and a wide variety of tasks to experiment with the dynamics of shape. Looking at energy points, different typeface shapes, negative and positive shapes, symmetry patterns, repeat patterns, NOTAN, designing with geometric and organic shapes, drawing shapes to different smells, using music to capture shapes, looking at the meaning of words to capture shapes and the play with tangram shapes. This can be used with A-level students to inspire, GCSE students for starters and Key Stage 3 to develop a foundation knowledge of the basic element ‘shape’. There are also a number of different artists like David Bomberg, Joan Miro, Stuart Davis, Escher, Lisa Milroy and Henri Matisse - artists who use a simplified shape in their work and students can interpret there own ideas from these artists. There are lots of exercises and different tasks to experiment with shapes.

An art study that shows the development of the Modern era in Art from Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism with examples of different artists It is a detailed slide study with notes on each artist and key examples of artists work and a brief description of each. It shows how Impressionism came about with clear examples of what this is about. It is good to use to give students an introduction to how Modern Art developed and enables them to see the development towards the modern era.

This is a set of Three Key Stage summary sheets with evaluation sheets for all the projects. It sets out the project details - three projects per year group. year 7, year 8 and year 9: Year 7 Unit 1. Diagnostic- Styles Construction Unit 2. Hundertwasser Clay tile Unit 3. Modern Movements-mixed media Year 8 Unit 1. Go – Wild fabric Unit 2. Drawing and mod-roc Unit 3 Paper coiling and Zentangle design Year 9 Unit 1. Portrait Unit 2. Surrealism Unit 3. Painting Each slide describes the skills in each project and helps with students making a final evaluation of their work and target setting. Some of these topics are presented in other powerpoints of mine on TES.

This is a powerpoint which gives tasks to interpret the style of Hundertwasser. There are worksheets and information on the artist. This is part of a project where students design a tile shape in colour using a building phito as an inspiration and stylise this into their own design. Students then turn this into a clay tile outcome.

A powerpoint outlining some tasks for a Key Stage 3 project on Tim Burton. In this project there are a number of skills, pencil drawingwith pen work, chalk and charcoal drawing on black paper, making a black and white silhouette cut out, collaging harcoal drawing onto bottle and painting bottle, further developing a character on a bottle and making a wool paper character. This also has a few quizzes and student examples of work to support the tasks. Starting with presenting a title page for Tim Burton and copying some of his scenes by practising pencil tone and mark making. Layering pencil and black pen in drawing when copying Burton’s work Photocopy examples for students to work from to print off. Then developing a cut out in black paper looking at the strange, Gothic type black and white silhouettes of some of his scenes and making a page on his settings using black paper and cut-outs. The slides give a number of the silhouette type scenes for students to use for inspiration. Further developing a character drawing and students are to look at the number of different slides and these could be printed off for students and letting them develop their own character. Some of the You tube film clips are linked on the slides as well. Students draw out the character and then colour this in. Tim Burton’s scenes are often dark and atmospheric and this is an ideal opportunity to practise drawing with white chalk, charcoal or black soft pastel on black sugar paper and to do a drawing of one of his black and white characters. There are some examples to use to copy from to support the students learning. This black and white scene can further be photocopied and collaged onto a bottle. There is also an extension task to make a head on a wine bottle in paper-mache and lots of inspirational examples of student work Another fun task is to play with wool and paper and to make a rolled animal using newspaper in rolls and then wrapping wool around this and to bend into shape. This can further be embellished by adding bits and bobs like buttons, braid and other decorative details to develop a character type animal which has been inspired by Burton. There are a few quizzes and homework tasks as well.

These are a set of 6 sheets which can be laminated for classroom tables to help students with writing about Art. These are lists of descriptive words linked to the Elements of art and the Principles of design. These will help students to be able to write about artworks and help to broaden vocabulary. There are also words to help with writing at GCSE and support with writing under the GCSE Assessment Objectives as well. There are also sheets to help with writing frames to support weaker students when they analyse and write about their artworks. This can be used with Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level Leaving these on the desks in the classroom support literacy learning and help students with vocabulary.

The project has examples of plant forms to look at and by using Ernst Haeckel and Nikki de St Phalle. The students begin to research their own design plant shape on a presentation sheet. This involves drawing with fine pens over a wash of colour.Examples are given in Powerpoint - lots of pictures of plants and examples of how to do a wash. Students can also do some Wax and scratch drawings of natural forms using wax crayons and oil pastels. Students then present these on a preparatory sheet- there are examples of this technique. Secondly students then using their own drawings (wax and scratch) of plants and Niki de St Phalle and Haeckel begin to do a design sheet for their monster plant. Resources needed: Plastic pot plants to stand the branches and plants in, withies, newspaper, tissue paper, masking tape, PVA glue to make paper mache glue, re-cycled card, re-cycled bottles, acrylic paints to decorate. The students study they work of Niki De St. Phalle looking at her biomorphic and colourful sculptures and then by using the her work as inspiration plan a design and build a 3D form using withies, found re-cycled plastic bottles and cardboard and construct a plant form in a large plastic plant pot as a basis. There are examples of outcomes and examples of skills to use in the buildong of construction, The powerpoint has lots of examples to use as inspiration and final examples of outcome.

This is a GCSE coursework project on a theme called ‘Surfaces’ giving you loads of ideas to develop with your students. It deals with developing ideas to gain confidence with different media and to develop sketchbook skills. It is about the process of developing the Examboard Assessment Objectives AO1- Develop ideas from artists and AO2 Exploring different media for coursework. It gives a set of observational photographs to work from for Assessment Objective 3 - AO3. It gives you different artists to look at to gather resources on and students will be able to use these as artist studies and begin to explore these artists techniques and do studies in their book. This if for Assessment Objective 1 and students can gain ideas on ways to develop their skills in techniques through these artists and in so doing ‘Develop ideas’. There are further sets of techniques for Assessment Objective 2 and one can explore, experiment with ideas for developing ‘creativity’ in your classroom. That is, exploring a number of different media and showing how one can take risks with the media in order to create an interesting effect. There are slides giving you a set of techniques to use - explaining how to use media in creative ways. These techiques link with the list of artists given on slides to start with. The experimental techniques are: =white paint printing, =wax and scratch, =distressing surfaces, =dripping paint, scraping paint, =using sgrafitto, =cardboard collaging =layering digital manipulations with collage =using fabric and sewing into surfaces. Emphasis here is that students should play and take risks and experiment with different materials and begin to layer and be able to draw on different surfaces. It is a fun set of techniques at GCSE and/or A-level with students using their own resource material and developing their confidence and fluency with making creative experiments. Students can develop their own responses using the techniques. There are questions so that students can write a final evaluation. After this set of work students should be confident and independent enough to find their own photographs and to develop their own idea for a final piece for Assessment Objective 4.

There are plenty of examples of Andy Goldsworthy on the slides and examples of other peoples work doing land art. Students will also need to identify various examples of materials used in Goldsworthy’s work. Students will also need to complete an analysis of one example of one of Goldsworthy’s work: Penpont in Cairn. There are questions to answer on this work. Also there is a project task for students to make their own land art outcome and examples to be inspired from.

Success Criteria- Develop a range of textural paint techniques Experiment with blending colours Experiment by layering and combining different techniques Create a water colour exploration page to show variety of techniques. Make a page of experiments following the list below. Try to explore each technique. When complete cut these into square shapes and display this neatly in your sketchbook. Heading: Watercolour experiments A Graded wash warm colour to cold colour B. SGRAFITTO-scratch paper wash over with watercolour C. DRIPPING TECHNIQUE D. WET IN WET- drop another colour of waterscolour into a wet wash E. GRADED WASH light to dark F. CLING FILM-put over wet wash and let dry G TRANSPARENT washes of colour overlapping each other H. OPAQUE to transparent I. USING BLOCK OUT TO CREATE WHITE shapes J. FLAT WASH K LAYERING OF PAINT details L. SPLATTER TECHNIQUE M. Wet paint and drop salt N. Use a dry brus over colour O. Use masking tape to block out areas P Stippling with watercolour The powerpoint gives an example for each technique There is also an exercise to match the correct picture with technique and an answer page.

This is a slide presentation which explain how to make a fold out sketchbook and then gives tasks in each of the folds to do to make a creative sketchbook. Students will need to follow the slides and be selective what they would like to do in each of their 16 blocks of their A2 paper. The slide presentation has a lesson plan, a set of notes which need to be copied for the lesson and some collage sheets which need to be copied for students. It is a good year 9 project and can link to Self-identity project or used for GCSE to make a small drawing sketchbook to pull out in their sketchbook. Students enjoy making this interesting special fold out little booklet. Lesson Objective: 1.Discover what it is to be creative and how to apply this by following the prompts on the slides. 2. Make a fold out sketchbook - by following the instructions. 3. Use ideas, thoughts, pictures and prompts to be creative, examples given on the slides. 4.Use collage and drawing techniques- examples shown in slides. 5. Learn about Keri Smith as a contemporary illustrator and Guerrilla artist and her ideas to prompt creativity Some CREATIVE ACTIVITIES - Good homework project tasks as well to set. Make a SMALL ART JOURNAL based on KERI SMITH’s "Wreck my Journal’ YOU COULD TRY complete A RECTANGLE OF YOUR A2 SHEET EACH DAY These are some of the tasks… Draw something interesting Draw what makes me feel ‘calm’ Draw what is a ‘happy place’ and write words that make you happy Draw the people I meet on a day Frame collage and draw in the space a drawing Do Zentangles (DOODLES) Make visual thoughts – a ‘thought garden’ - draw in the collage of grass Paste the ‘Blue frame’ and draw a beautiful scene in the frame Draw on a shopping label, date and paste this. Paste the television picture and then draw a picture in the TV. Draw over the wall-paper (graffiti) Paste the picture of the window frame and draw in the window Draw to the sound of music and something that is loud. Draw the family and friends I meet Draw my hand and write down in the hand everything I touch for the day Draw a pencil on a crushed piece of paper (Crush it) and paste this in Transform the stone texture picture and turn it into something else. …see other activities HAVE FUN! AND ENJOY BEING CREATIVE Lesson Outcome Create a drawing booklet to take home for the summer Show the ability to use ideas, pictures, thoughts to generate a drawing Show an ability to collage and to combine this with drawings. Presentation of drawing ideas in the booklet Understanding of layering and juxtaposing concepts to generate ideas Exercising and opening the mind to new ideas like Keri Smith. Lesson Resources A2 white cartridge paper Pencil Eraser and sharpeners Pritt stick Scissors Evaluation: - see fin Discuss students have achieved? Review creativity?

Students given examplesof nature pictures and to create a repeat pattern from a pencil drawing of these pictures Pictures of nature for students to draw from and then how to make a repeat unit from this drawing Showing how to make a mirror repeat, half-drop repeat, straight repeat and diagonal repeat. Resources needed: Tracing paper, pencils, calico fabric cut in squares, ink rollers, waterproof inks, Step by step breakdown of design and printing processes Guidelines on how to use polyprint. Students make a repeat pattern on fabric and then sew this into a cushion There are lots of student examples to support Examples of student work Success Criteria Simplifying drawing into a line pattern and making a repeat unit, Choosing a colour combination for repeat unit and drawing out the unit on fabric Carefully rolling out the colours and layering the print from light to dark. Strong contrasts of colour Careful accurate layering of colours.

Students will create their own open window painting after been inspired by Henri Matisse Students to write about Henri Matisse 'The open window ’ and understand what is Fauvism Easy student examples - outcomes of watercolour designs Clear step by step drawing of the windowdesigns and students left to add in own detail to make it more interesting Students gain confidence in drawing using the simplified shapes of Fauvism and practise watercolour techniques

This is a good exercise to teach students about symmetrical pattern design and to learn about an interesting culture in South Africa - the Ndebele. The powerpoint gives you loads of examples of their work and links to You tube clips and South African songs. Develop an understanding of the Ndebele culture through the links on the powerpoint. There are lots of examples of their work to inspire and enable students to develop their own symmetry pattern in the style of the Ndebele artists. There are questions and info sheets. Students will be able to make a symmetry pattern - a piece of jewellery as students Paint a piece of thin wood- cut into a shape. This is a good project for an ‘international project’ to develop a cultural awareness. Students design and make a symmetry pattern in the style of the Ndebele artists and then transfer this to a piece of wood shape.

This is a powerpoint of some of Rauschenberg’s work so that GCSE students can explore transfer techniques while making an artist study of his work. There are examples of how to do the transfer technique but also helpful question sheets for analysis of the artist for GCSE objective - ‘Develop ideas…’. Lots of examples of Raushenberg are given and each child should be given one of his work to copy. Students should then make their own Rauschenberg example using their own project topic and own photograph and practice the transfer technique and paint washes of Rauschenberg. There is a detailed critical analysis - lots of questions for students to make a comprehensive artist study in their books.

This is a key stage 3 project where students do a polyprint on fabric using printing inks. This is a short 6 week project but could be developed to incorporate embellishments and sewing skills to fabric. I did this with year 8 and it took 6 weeks. Student enjoyed the outcome and it could have been made into a cushion for each student but we made a class fabric wall hanging. (There is a second Powerpoint in a Bundle which has all the pictures used for students to work from - A-Z of nature pictures) Artists used: Angie Mitchell and Ernst Haeckel Resources required Polyprint blocks Printing ink Rollers Tables to roll out on Fabric square per child Paper for test prints Research sheet for drawings and artist research. Project schedule 6 weeks The resources for the students to work from. Each student chooses what they would like to draw. The steps to take while making the print and examples of student’s outcome. Students begin by researching Angie Mitchell and Ernst Haeckel and make up a sheet with these two artists and their drawings. The drawings they do of one of the pictures of the slide pictures of animals and bits of nature from A-Z. Students choose which animal or fish or plant they would like to draw. Students spend time doing a detailed drawing and design a border pattern for this work in black and white. Success criteria of drawings To use fine lines and to capture quality detail To concentrate on negative and positive shapes To develop a border pattern from nature around the drawing To try to layer up your drawing with foreground and background shapes The students drawings are then photo-copied and transferred to the polyprint block. Students use the photocopy to press through onto polyboard. The students are given a square and a strip of polyprintboard . Students first of all experiment printing on paper with their design and border. Students can do a black and white print or do a polyprint print of two colours overlaying their inks. The slide presentation gives you also opportunities for reflection and evaluation of outcome at the end. I have presented my artists in my book I have compared the works of 2 nature artists I have written a short paragraph on the style of artists I have a careful line drawing of my subject I have created my own artwork based on my research of subject colour I have a plan for my print design and have written about relief printing I have tested working with polyprints Student outcome is a wall-hanging and we sewed all the students outcomes together to make a fabric collage of squares.

A sculptural project or life drawing project inspired by the famous British artist, the drawings of Henri Moore. Looking at the ink wash drawings of Henry Moore in detail his presentation shows loads of examples of the way he sketched his body shapes and looks at the way he simplified the bodies into organic shapes. This is a good presentation to show KS3 how to simplify and to distort drawings of different poses into organic shapes. This can be used for KS3 making abstract body sculptures and shows how to reduce, simplify, re-arrange and to distort drawings into a pleasing harmonious shape. It can also be used for A-level students doing life drawing and giving ways to explore different wax resist techniques with ink washes. There are loads of pictures of Henri Moore’s Drawings and hopefully will inspire outcomes and enable students to develop some confidence when drawing figures. This presentation can be bought with the Life drawing presentation.

A short glossary list of words and students to choose the correct answers. These can be printed and cut up so students could match the correct term.

A set of words to print out for display in the Art classroom. Elements of Art and Principles of Design.

Just a slide to help with students making a moodboard in a projecr