This is a resource on examples of Victoria Crowe’s work and this has been used with year 11 to get them to experiment with acrylic paint and gold leaf Students ts find out about Scottish painter and write up a paragraph on her work. Questions included for Critical analysis Artist study for GCSE and A-level - interpreting artist. Learning a new technique and painting with gold. Also a link to a video on using gold leaf to help with artist interpretation. STUDENTS TO SELECT ONE OF HER WORKS FROM SLIDES PRACTISE HER TECHNIQUES EXPLORING PAINT AND GOLD LEAF EXPERIMENTS MAKE A PAGE In sketchbook FOR AN ARTIST STUDY ON HER WORK

Introductory info for GCSE and A-level A powerpoint clearly showing what is style visually but also showing how people interpret the same subject matter differently. To clearly understand what is a style? Slides showing how style is grouped by culture, country, period, artist periods, time, and art movement. Lots of questions and discussions about what makes a style. Lesson Objective To understand what is Style in Art? To develop a deeper understanding of how artists are grouped together. To begin to analyse and question and discuss various artworks To look at examples of elements of Art and principles of design. To define each Art element and respond by making own interpretation To define each Art Principle and respond by making own interpretation Also after this a list of all the elements of art with good examples of artworks on each element. For example what is a line, shape, pattern, texture…? A list of all the principles of Design with good examples of artworks on each principle explaining what is Balance, Rhythm, Harmony…? Tasks are included Discussions on style and then completing an artwork for each principle and design and element of art. Excellent introductory powerpoint for GCSE or A-level

Students to be given a strip of paper and fold this into 8 sections. On the end two folds students make a front cover. There is a You tube video link to this project. In the six sections in the middle of the fold out paper there are 6 tasks for each of the elements of art. Line, Shape, Colour, Texture, Space and Value. Students on the one side of the fold out write information about the element and on the other side students are to do a drawing of the element as a creative response to each element This is a fun project and the outcomes are successful.

Students make a fold out booklet of each of the principles. Video clip on how to make a booklet and then to make each fold on each principle. This powerpoint gives a slide for each principle and students need to make each side of the booklet as creative as they can. One side is the explanation of each principle and the other side one’s own interpretation. The powerpoint has examples of artwork of each principle to help students to develop their own ideas. Sheets are copied and students follow making a booklet where one side of the booklet is to give information and definitions on the principles and the other side of the booklet is the student’s own interpretation of the principle. There are prompts given on each slide explaining what is required for students to write on each principle and examples of what is expected for the student to gather some notes on each principle.

We will be learning about Ben Heine and how he uses Drawings and Photography Complete the questions attached: Heading: Ben Heine Create your own version of Ben Hearn. IDEA 1 DOING A DRAWING IN A PHOTOGRAPH Steps for success Take a photograph and load this up on a Powerpoint. Do a drawing to add to this photograph. Load this up on the powerpoint over the photograph. Remove backgrounds. Look at the examples of Pencil and Camera on slide 2 and 3. You could try make it quirky, personal or relate to your situation. It must not be an exact copy of the photograph but be combined in an original quirky way. You may add in interesting ideas that change the photograph IDEA 2 TAKING A PHOTO GRAPH AND ADDING IN CIRCLES KEYS FOR SUCCESS Take a photograph and DRAW over the photograph all the circles like the examples of Digital Circlism Try to use your own photograph Make it as unique as you can. You could try make it quirky, personal and could relate to your situation.

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.

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 resource of examples of artists who use text in their artwork and there are some examples of artists who show movement in their work. There is also an activity to collage a set of black and white newspaper/magazine and make your own version creatively using text to show movement.

A set of 8 slides which describe the key characteristics of Dadaism and gives some examples of their works and looks at Surrealism and gives examples of some Surrealist artists. To use as worksheets in class where students can read about the movements and develop an understanding on the movements. A description of Duchamp, Man Ray, Dali, Ernst and Magritte with key examples of their work.

The song In A Gadda Da Vida inspired an exhibition of work at the Tate Gallery. This powerpoint just highlights the work at the gallery and gives examples of the Garden of Eden by different artists. There is also a link to a You Tube clip of the original song.

There are two tasks ; Making your name with zentangle patterns- there are student outcomes and sheets to support this activity. Students to work in groups making a letter to put together into a word. making a large cardboard letter and use paper craft- ~coiling and quilling to embellish Learning objective Students Learn to do lettering and patterns and to make a 3D constuction of letters Students learn to do block lettering : Every letter should be 3 blocks across and 5 letters down. The only letters that are different are M which is 4 across and 5 down and W is 5 across and 5 down. Learning to coil with paper craft students each develop their own letter working in a group. Students to choose one word in a group and to draw the letters of the word out BIG on cardboard Students Practice drawing out boldly own name using the block lettering sheets provided to support. Resources maths block paper cereal box felt tips glossy magazines pritt stick glue

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

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.