Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
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.
Examples of paintings of different viewpoints of famous paintings from the Early Renaissance, to Max Beckmann and Anthony Green - looking at composition and different ways of looking at a subject.
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?
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.
The powerpoint consists of the following:
Students will learn about Wassily Kandinsky and his abstract Art and be able to make their own version of Kandinsky while listening to four pieces of music.
Task 1: Describing artwork tasks (slide2)
Task 2: Answer questions on Kandinsky (slide 3)
Task 3: Listening to music and interpreting this (slide 4)
Divide your paper into 4 blocks as seen in the example and in your blocks you need to draw what you interpret while listening to the four pieces of music.
Listen to the You Tube tracks of music - one at a time. While listening to the music in each block while you listen to the music you need to draw what the music makes you feel. (Copy the http address into search to hear music)
That is, you need to Interpret the music by drawing shapes, colours, textures, lines, forms, images and what you feel the music represents.
This is a very successful drawing lesson to build confidence with drawing. It can be used at any level as skills are on invaluable. It can be stretched over two lessons.
I have a shoe box of little ornaments wrapped in fabric and tied up with tape that I use for this lesson and over the years this is one of my favourite lessons.
I finally tried to make a powerpoint and hope you enjoy !
There is a drawing starter exercise
Then the fun begins
Objectives
To explore observational drawing techniques: blind drawing and contour drawing
To investigate how to capture techniques (markmaking) when drawing
To build confidence in capturing a form with line by using different styles when drawing: gestural drawing and pattern drawing
To develop a design from observational details
There are 17 drawings to make … and each slide gives you the instruction and an example of drawing
Resources
A3 cartridge
sharp 2B pencil
small objects to draw wrapped to start
oil pastel each
Fine-liner each
ruler
pencil rayons
small bit of tracing paper cut in squares ( size of unit for repeat)
starting with the following
. TOUCH DRAWING
Draw through TOUCH ONLY
Feel the object under a cloth draw the object – and try to imagine the shape, texture, and form
Try to draw and outline only.
2 minutes
BLIND DRAWING
Draw with CONTINUOUS LINE and BLINDLY 3 min
Draw the object and draw blindly. DO NOT LOOK AT YOUR PAPER as you draw.
Instead imagine your pencil as a contour ( an ant crawling on the object) exploring all the edges, outlines, shapes, textures and details of the object.
2 minutes…
Follow the slides
There are pictures of student examples.
Success criteria
The line and markmaking quality is MORE important than accuracy
This gives students a realisation that drawing is about lines and marks.
A project with a number of resources on Self-identity to support a portrait project and a digital photo print of a face or a photography outcome. Discussions on Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo and what is a stereotype. Also a presentation on how to go about making a portrait drawing .
To explain various printing techniques - like relief printing, mono-printing and silkscreening. Slides showing a history of printmaking, from Early letterpress, to Japanese, Picasso, Expressionism and Andy Warhol. Students to be shown how printmaking developed in visuals.
There are various historical examples to show the early print works and how they developed.
Also linking to projects for students to get ideas to develop their own work.
Each printing technique has You Tube clips with specific tasks in the presentation.
Student tasks - to write a definition for each style of print. Students to make a presentation in books.
Heading in book
Stick in your prints when they are totally dry
What is … printing?
What types of . _____are there? E.g additive, subtractive?
Give an example a print artist.
Describe your print process. Did you find it difficult or easy.?
Do you like the quality of your printing?
There is a detailed explanation of each of these three types of printing for students to copy and very informative to support printing techniques.
Good for KS 3 but also at GCSE.
Students learn to draw what is around them and simplify this into a basic painting
Students learn to use watercolour and explore techniques in sketchbook
Students learn about Henri Matisse and the random Fauvist use of colour
Students enjoy making a precious painting
Students learn about the basics in Art looking at the elements of Art
Developing an understanding of pattern
A good starter project on the basics in Art
Projects to develop an understanding of the basic elements and the use of pattern.
Also developing a printing project using a repeat pattern.
Developing an understanding of William Morris
Also looking at Japanese concept of pattern and the use of Notans
This is part of a set of HUNDERTWASSER POWERPOINTS.
In this powerpoint the students use their design they made for their tiles and make a tile in clay in the style of Hundertwasser.
In this powerpoint there are examples of how to roll and make the tile with key clay steps to follow and include in tile.
There are student outcomes to look at while using key skills in making of a tile.
Students paint these with acrylic paints and varnish with PVA glue or a Varnish gloss when dry.
This is the final part of a series of Still-life lessons where students do drawings in different techniques and then make a mod-roc outcome.
In this powerpoint the students go to a computer room and do a presentation on the artist LOUISE NEVELSON and then make a mod-roc outcome. Steps are showing how to make the mod-roc relief and criteria for success with this medium.
Students then evaluate their mod-roc outcome by doing a tonal drawing of this and reflect on the outcome
Computer room research: Louise Nevelson - students write and answer the questions and resource information on this artist.
After making the mod-roc students evaluate their mod-roc outcome and do a drawing of your outcome and as a group discuss how they will as a group present their own work like Louise Nevelson.
Learning Objectives:
To explore developing a relief surface of an area of my still -life drawing and develop this in mod roc technique
To build a mod –roc outcome looking at relief techniques
To in a group build your Modroc into a standing tower with the rest of the group.
Do a study of the artist Louise Nevelson and present her work by doing an artist study of her work.
Complete the project by doing an evaluation of their mod-roc relief sculpture and do a pencil drawing of this
This is lesson 4 in the portrait project.
Students firstly do a pencil shading of their face using the grid technique and learn how to draw different parts of the face carefully.
Secondly students do a monoprint and this is in lesson 2 portrait project and they use their photograph to trace off into the ink to make the monopring.
Thirdly students then collage into the monoprint and use Paolozzi as an artist and collage into the monoprint.
In this powerpoint the student use one of their photographs and draw into the photocopy. Students look at the artist Chila Burman and look at the way she interprets her Asian and British identity. Students need to think about their own identity and the way they are going to collage into their own photo-copy.
Students use felt tips and draw into the photocopies making patterns and try to interpret cultural patterns in bright colours.
Your Learning Objective was:
To study an example of CHILA BURMAN n your book and describe what you see
Students to find out about CHILA BURMAN and begin to understand her Asian and British identity.
Students to use their photograph and develop the bright colours and cultural identity in the portrait.
To use cultural patterns and to create a self identity photo portrait.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Cultural awareness of our differences
Understanding of different styles and using digital photography creatively with patterns
Appreciation of own patterns and self-identity
Collaging: Photographs of everyday items, patterns, favourite clothes, magazine text, Newspaper highlights, paint textures and close up of photos of household items: objects that show own culture and self-identity
A short presentation highlighting the key facts and characteristics of the German Expressionism.
There are references to a number of artists, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rotluf, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Otto Mueller.
Expressionism was made up of Der Brucke Art movement and Der Blaue Reiter - there are also examples of these artists linked to Expressionism.
Der Blaue Reiter is Frans Marck and Wassily Kandinsky.
Key examples given with notes about the movement to be used as worksheets for students.
An visual reference to architectural features with reference to Classical Greek and Roman architectural features in Artworks, various building ornaments and different buildings.
There are lots of artists who have use classical architecture in their own art. Also lots of examples of artists and reference to examples of John Piper and his paintings on classical architecture and students could develop their watercolour techniques copying this artist. But there are a number of different artists to use to inspire students to develop their own technique.
Also, developing the style of John Piper in different techniques: for eg. wax painting, water-colour techniques.
**The resource includes: **
Examples of architectural artists
Examples of a student work collages of architecture Examples of student work of combining buildings into a collage
Resource sheets of architectural photographs of churches to use for studies
Resource sheets of different buildings ornamentations to use in collage
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**Learning Objectives **
To develop a Classical Greek and Roman element in one’s work of art at KS3, KS 4 - GCSE Art and A-level Art
To study various examples of how artists have used these classical architectural elements in their works of Art
A look at various contemporary artists and how they have used the Classical elements and architectural features
To develop a collage combining photographs, painting and pen work.
Choose one of the artists and copy their style and collect examples of their work to use in your collage.
Take photographs of buildings in your local environment and use this in your collage.
Aim to make a small A5 booklet ‘A Beastie Booklet’ and to draw various gargoyles in different techniques and to evaluate their pages.
Aim to make a sculpture in clay of one of the their beastie designs.
The powerpoint also allows students to look at Monster inc and Lisandro Demarchi and to design their own creative beastie or medieval creature.
The powerpoint gives you lots of pictures of gargoyles and examples of student work and refers to different techniques students can do. It also gives a list what should be in the booklet.
There is also an instruction sheet with video links to make a clay pinch pot and how to join this to make animal shapes.
Finally there are examples of students display of their sculptures and booklets.
A summary of objectives and the requirements for students to continue to do homework based on these. A few lists of homework ideas and a summary of what is required.