A set of tasks used during the original distance learning. The three tasks (and extensions) direct each student into research, pastiche and caricature of a given artist.
Students were assigned a prominent artist from the past 150 years and tasked with responding to the tasks.
Once complete, the work can be displayed in a timeline format or placed onto a website to aid with Art History understanding.
Suitable for KS3 and KS2. List of artists used and tracking feedback sheet included, but can be modified.
A series of activities leading students through a mixed media architecture project. Suitable for GCSE or Y12 study, the scheme explores:
2 point perspective technical drawing
Location photography
Urban sketching (artist Lyndon Hayes)
Monoprinting and collage
Mixed media (artist Daniela Gullotta)
Final outcome planning
Introduction to oil painting pack. Including lesson plan, cut out card activity and template for applying skin tones to a portrait.
Used for Y12 but may be adapted to suit acrylic paint.
A project exploring Matisse’s works and his cut out style. Students link his technique to the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic games, creating a contemporary minimal sports poster.
Extending the technique, students progress onto the work of Bernardo Henning, who has influences of Matisse’s shapes and mark making within his designs.
The project can be completed by hand, or digitally using Photoshop.
Worksheet introducing students to the work of Lucy Stephen, who creates city themed designs inside a typography letter shape.
The resource also includes an A-Z sheet. Simply crop the letter you wish students to complete and print out A5 for the class to complete.
Example also attached using this method with B for Birmingham!
A worksheet demonstrating how to achieve a pin hole light illustration in the style of photographer Daniele Buetti.
Originally set as an online, distance learning task, it may easily be adapted into a one off cover lesson.
Photography summer booklet. Prompts encouraging students to take an image each day of their summer holidays.
Print the sheet to A3 size and fold using the instructions within the document. Creates a small A6 booklet for students to take away.
You may also print double sided and include the inspiration poster as further prompts.
Cover lesson activity designed for art or graphics lessons. Students to use inspiration from the MTV logo and various formats to create their own version using various stimulus.
The download includes a worksheet with examples and inspiration as well as two printable documents - one with a large, faded MTV logo and another with 12 MTV logos, for students to create multiple designs.
Creating patterned cultural tiles in the style of Jill Ricci.
2 x worksheets for students to create patterned tiles based on a chosen country. One sheet offers a shape for students to complete work in, cut around and place together as a class whilst the other can be extended into a Photoshop piece.
GCSE Photography digital sketchbook exploring portraiture. The sketchbook has 4 photoshoot suggestions and one in depth digital tutorial.
Used during online learning, all tasks are designed to be completed with limited resources and mobile phones.
Mini GCSE Photography project exploring contemporary food photography. Emphasis on students exploring lighting and camera angles to capture work in the style of:
Vanessa McKeown
Albert B Balein
Ryan MacEachern
Slides include analysis questions and diagrams to support photoshoots. Final Ryan MacEachern tasks allows students to develop more conceptual outcomes, linking research into food types into data driven photoshoots.
2 x Greek Mythology grid drawing worksheets.
A photograph of a statue of Medusa and one of Athena. Students are asked to copy the grid lines onto their A4 piece of paper and copy box for box from the sheet.
A good activity for scaling images and building confidence with portrait drawing, which can be used as a starting point for further exploration into Greek Mythology.
Digital tutorial to create a Magdiel Lopez piece of Graphic Design. Layout in a sketchbook format, students make their own copy and track their progress through the easy to use tutorial.
Used for AS Level Graphic Design but suitable for GCSE, BTEC or KS3.
Can be used during online learning by using Photopea instead of Photoshop.
A presentation with outlines of tasks introducing students to a Vanitas themed coursework project. The project challenges students to:
Analyse a traditional Dutch Vanitas painting
Record with experimental techniques
Complete a photoshoot
Complete a still life drawing
Experiment in the style of Andy Warhol
Develop ideas for their own independent ideas to the theme of ‘life luxuries’
A simple sheeting allowing students to apply pre taught shading and tonal techniques to 3D shapes.
Used as a practice builder into more substantial 3D still life drawings.
Hand drawn story map for Julia Donaldson 's ‘The Singing Mermaid’. The map illustrates key points of the story on an A4 sheet.
There is also a blank copy of the map, with only the illustrated Mermaids for students to draw their additional parts around.
KS3 Art & Design lesson plan and presentation for the illustrator Ben Brown. Full lesson plan tasks students to create their own Day of the Dead, Brown inspired skull observation.
A Powerpoint exploring the theme of jungle through typography and illustration.
The slides begin with a step by step guide to creating a leafy letter using Photopea. Students then develop an illustrated book cover for the Jungle Book using Henri Rousseau’s paintings as inspiration.
Originally used during online learning, there are differentiated tasks to consider resources found at home and online accessibilty.
Photography analysis guide with directed questions to help students consider concept and meaning behind the work of Matt Wisniewski and his digital overlays.
Poster designed to encourage students to move away from writing 'I think . . . ’ when describing art works.
Can be printed and displayed in any context.