I work in one of the leading independent schools in the country where our latest inspection report achieved the highest level of 'excellent' in all areas.
I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.
I work in one of the leading independent schools in the country where our latest inspection report achieved the highest level of 'excellent' in all areas.
I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.
Are you fed up with hearing ‘I can’t draw’? Me too! I shall be doing everything I can to change this fixed mindset attitude with my classes and will be using this one page resource to infuse a growth mindset into my students.
This resources also includes a page of suggested answers. This makes a great starter or discuss it in class and then set it as a homework.
A grid to help assess an observational drawing. The grid looks at line, tone, shading, detail and accuracy. This could be used for teacher, peer or self assessment.
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This drawing fruit worksheet is a must have for fruit and vegetable projects. High-resolution images work well in colour and when photocopied into black and white. Use it as a sub lesson or integrate it into fruit or natural forms projects.
The accompanying lesson plan is written as a sub lesson and includes a scripted paragraph for a non-specialist.
A great art cover or sub lesson. Students think creatively and turn the circles into different drawings on this one page resource.
Includes lesson plan which has full instructions and an extension idea.
Don't you find that when you are marking compositions that you are writing the same thing again and again? These stickers address that problem! This set of stickers includes each type of error students make both as a target and as a Question. (I know that in some schools like mine, you have to mark with a question!)
Targets and Questions include: annotation, identifying students best design, colour, contrast/tone, links to artists, quality of drawing, and using the space on the page well.
These stickers are made to go on Avery L7163 or stickers that are 99.1mm x 38.1mm.
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Happy and Speedy Marking
This super-useful worksheet teaches students the art of cross hatching. It gives two examples, Durer and Da Vinci and asks student to complete two tasks. This would fit into any drawing skills workshop or work as a cover lesson or homework.
There are two versions of this one page resource - one which uses the word ‘tones’ and one which uses the word ‘values’.
Click on the drawing skills bundle to the right of this resource to buy this with other drawing skills worksheets.
This presentation and lesson plan combine to make a superb cross-curricular art/music lesson. View the presentation with your students to look at mark making in figurative and abstract artworks. The presentation includes a script with questioning. Then complete marking making to music with your students.
The lesson plan includes a starter (which is the presentation), demonstration, development, plenary and 4 suggested homework tasks.
This would fill a lesson which is 50mins - 1hr. Just add music!
This creative Pointillism Eye project, teaches students about Pointillism, Seurat and optical mixing. It includes everything you need. Ideal for a post-sats project or for Year 7.
It starts with Students looking at a PowerPoint on Pointillism focusing on Seurat. (16 slides) It includes a script and looks at:
A definition for Pointillism
Seurat & Signac
How the Impressionists influenced them.
Two of Seurats paintings in detail.
Pablo Jurado Ruiz, a contemporary artists who used pointillism today.
How to mix colours using Pointillism.
Then a stage by stage look at how the ‘good example’ (Main picture above) was built up.
A Pointillism worksheet enables students practice optical mixing - this also helps create a great display.
You then have two choices. Either get your students to draw an eye, (using the eye drawing reference sheet provided) or use the faint eye provided and ask students to add dots over the top.
There is a Self Assessment sheets that looks at how closely they have applied their dots and how neatly. (Two on an A4 page)
There are suggested extension tasks.
Duration:
Using faint eye: 2 hrs 5 mins.
Drawing own eye: 3 hrs.
(There suggested extension tasks could make this a lot longer!)
I am always looking to improve my resources, so if you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments box.
Don't you find you are writing the same thing again and again when you mark drawing? The attached 7 pages of stickers will CUT YOUR MARKING TIME IN HALF as they give a target for the 7 most common mistakes.
Stickers include targets for: improving the overall shape, not giving a drawing a dark outline, adding more detail, smoother shading, not working too faintly, not working too small, not smudging work.
These stickers are designed to be printed on Avery L7163 or stickers that are 99.1 x 38.1 mm.
Should you think of a common mistake that students make that I have missed out email me on scrowther99@gmail.com and I will add it to the selection.
Happy Marking!
Learning Objective: To practice careful observation and detailed drawing.
Complete the detail on the blank half of the crab. There are three versions of this. A plain one, one with a title, and one with 8 spaces to add keywords. These keywords could describe the crab.
This could fit into a mark making project or a natural forms project.
I know! I know! You hardly ever have a spare minute in form with all those diaries to sign or check and all those letters to give out! However, if you ever have a spare moment here are 14 fun and/or educational activities to keep them busy. Each are 5 to 10 minutes long.
Activities include discussion, word and maths puzzles, guess the artwork, name the flag, recognise the logo and many more! All the instructions and answers are in the notes section of the PowerPoint and each activity includes an objective so you are inspection ready!
This took hours to make! I hope you find these useful, and if you do, please leave some positive feedback.
Enjoy!
This drawing sweets resource could be used for a close-ups project, a food art project or just for drawing practice. The high resolution, detailed drawings of gummy bears provide a challenge for your students. Print in colour and ask your students to work in coloured pencil, or print in black and white and work in pencil.
This one-page resource has two versions – one with the spelling ‘colour’ and the word ‘tone’, the other with the spelling ‘color’ and the word ‘value’. Other key words are Line, accuracy, shading and highlights.
Make links to artists: Sarah Graham, Roberto Bernardi or Daryl Gortner.
Encourage beautiful drawing with this converse grid drawing. Ideal as part of any drawing module or this would make an excellent homework or cover lesson to improve drawing skills.
It comes with two lesson plans which are exactly the same apart from one is titled 'Cover Lesson' and one is titled 'Sub Lesson'.
This three-page colour theory exam, with professional looking front cover and answer sheet, is an editable word document and ideal for end of year exams. This resource includes:
Versions for the UK and USA to allow for different spellings.
An editable exam paper that includes 10 questions on primary, secondary, tertiary and complementary colours. Also, tints, shades, warm and cool colours. Colour mixing and harmonious/analogous colours.
An editable front cover where there is space for the student’s name and a space for marking.
An answer sheet.
This ‘Managing Wellbeing and Stress’ assembly talks to students about the importance of exercise, sleep and how they can use meditation, natural sounds, healthy eating and positive thinking to help relieve stress. It’s tone is light-hearted and engaging. It includes a section where students have the choice to join in with a meditation or to just listen.
It will send you students out into the day feeling positive.
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes
