A fun project for students to learn about the Art Nouveau Artist Gustav Klimt and to do their own interpretation using patterns to make their hair. Students are asked to firstly read about Klimt and to answer questions. Secondly students are asked to practice doing Zentangle patterns and look at the patterns of Klimt Finally students take a photo of themselves or anyone else and paste this in an interesting position on their paper and begin to draw the Gustav Klimt patterns. TASK: Paste a picture of yourself, friend, family member and interpret the patterns of Klimt around the face. Making hair-styles or clothes using Klimt’s patterns. STEPS TO SUCCESS On an A5 paper paste a picture of a person and draw Klimt patterns making a dress or hair around the face. Look at the examples on the sheet. On your paper firstly divide the areas using lines into shapes around the photo of your face/head and begin to do Zentangle patterns in the shapes. Use a pencil or a pen and try to draw light and dark contrasts. Try to make patterns in the shapes. Use the video clip to help with making zentangles.

To find out about who was Ai Weiwei and some key examples of his work and to find out what makes him one of the most famous artists in China. He is the only artist in China known to the West as he pushes boundaries, makes the authorities more aware and is an Activist. The powerpoint gives examples of a number of his artworks to look at and is an informative powerpoint highlighting key works of Ai Wei Wei and some video clips which give a background to his life. Learning Objective To give students a background into art as being a statement to reform society, to see an artists who works as an activist to make statements about the corruption in the Chinese Government. Ai Wei Wei started out as going to a Film school and he was a son of a father who was a poet. But, his father was banned from practising as a poet and Ai Wei Wei grew up in a society where he realised how important it was to use his mind and his imagination to make artworks. He realises that Chinese society prevent personal comments and censors artists. Ai Wei Wei is so disappointed with Chinese society he leaves to go and work in the USA. He realises how artists are heavily punished and he knows he has a strong sense of criticising society. He goes to America and he cannot contribute to this society so he decides to go back to China to do his art there. Ai Wei Wei’s work have a meaning and relate to events in society and he uses Art to change society.

This is part of a bundle making a fabric collage and shows examples of different stitches with you tube links to support the various stitches.

This is a short project for students to take a photograph of a doodle they do and where they combine it with an object. Students look at the artist Vincent Bal and there are video links to his Shadowology work. Students are then asked to make up their own version of this by taking an object in their house and then turning this into a picture by combining this object with a doodle. There are some short questions to answer on the work of Vincent Bal.

This is a free resource of a tonal shaded sphere showing key requirements.

A free 5 min Scheme for a portrait project.

This is one sheet that summarises the main assessment objectives of the GCSE Art and Design course

The Powerpoint is a short set of 4 slides which gives the students 4 exercises to copy straight symbols and elements in the work of Hundertwasser. There are clear instructions for each task and printable slides for teachers to print off or merely to use on a screen in front and to copy onto A4 paper. I have also attached the lesson plan - so there are clear instructions so students can even learn remotely.

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

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.

Words for Art and terms used for portraits.

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.

Match the correct art movement with a description of the art style. Also match the art movement with an artist and a picture from the movement

Some key words used in Art with definitions to use as Starters in lessons

This is a summary for files - a 5 min Scheme of Work to help with having all the essential information required. This is my project Modern Movements - cupcakes where students make a cupcake in various different modern art styles: Expressionism - black and white polyprint, Neo-Impressionism stippling and dots with paint or crayon, Fauvism - splash arbitrary colours and learn how to use water-colour, Realism - pencil shading accurately, Surrealism - make a magical fantasy creature like Miro to go on the cupcake. There is a Scheme of work for this unit.

A poster to put up in the class to help with what behaviour is expected in an art class

A project for KS3 possible Year 8 looking at Surrealism and the ‘psycho-automatism’ of the artists. Students develop a FANTASY LANDSCAPE for their own paintings out of ink blobs dropped onto their paper and out of random scribbles. Students learn to use these abstract shapes creatively in a composition and are able to thus learn how to shade with paint from light to dark to create a 3D effect of form. The emphasis is on getting students to understand what is chiaro=scuro through the light and dark modelling of abstract shapes. The abstract shapes help them understand that there is no wrong and helps them focus on getting the 3D modelling right. The students need to make a wash for a background with watercolour - using perhaps a sponge. The emphasis is on creating a sense of space with a horizon line and students have to compose their blob/scribble shapes in this infinite space to create a sense of depth on a flat surface. Students need to repeat the shapes and arrange them in different sizes. Students also need to create a sense of interest in the painting. Their surreal shapes are repeated and they are able to change the scale of their forms to develop their fantasy landscape. The second task is to do a black and white pen drawing of their painting, this develops mark-making skills and patterning. This is also a technical exercise where students have to then transform their painting into a black and white pen rendering. This powerpoint has examples of student’s work which helps to support the development of these activities.

This is a standardisation test for KS 3 testing drawing skills. You will need to as a teacher to resource the following for students: Year 7 Thick rope tied up, Year 8 Piece of fabric square with a peg or/and ribbon or a paintbrush to replace peg, Year 9 Xmas baubels or large spoons that have a reflection. This did not cost too much to put together for a yearly assessment. Year 7: Rope drawing - looking at the ability to create volume with tone and then to add in the pattern lines of the rope texture with the volume effect. Some students are able to capture good line patterns showing good design skills and line qualities. More able students are able to capture the volume. Year 8: Peg/large paintbrush and Fabric drawing - This is an exercise in capturing the volume, pattern and shading and accurate perspective drawing of the peg. Some students are able to show this more accurately and can show good tonal variations and the illusion of the 3D form in the peg and the brush. The lovely use of colour in the fabric supports students with strong design skills and pattern Year 9: Self identity drawing a portrait in a spoon or a bauble supports a theme on Self identity in year 9 and students can re-fine their skills in drawing themselves carefully in a bauble. Looking at volume and accurate tonal shading to draw a sphere with the distorted self portrait. Students enjoy capturing themselves having learnt about portrait drawing they can begin to excel in trying to create an illusion of themselves.

Making something out of the resources you have at home. This gives a visual list of resources you can use at home to draw with, paint with and make 3D forms with. Good for GCSE students and above for they need to explore a number of techniques for assessment objective. There are videos to motivate and to demonstrte and there are examples of different types of art you can do. Think of some ideas for making art out of cardboard, recycled containers, toilet rolls, toilet paper, old books, magazines, old clothes, wool, ear buds, toothpicks, straws, stones/plants. It also suggests you could also on your phone make a piece of artwork using a photo and an app or draw on your phone. This is to inspire and students to decide what you are going to make…….

In this powerpoint there are key objectives: To use photographs of your school building and change them to emulate artists/photographers who show decay. To learn how to crinkle the picture up to show paper creases To blend in pictures of decay and textures into a school building photograph in the style of the artist. There is a clear definition for decay and students can use this to start there project. There are slides of a number of photographers to use for this theme and then examples of how to use Adobe Photoshop with steps to show progress in building your own outcome. The photographers are Cedric Wilson, Serj Fedulov, Paul Stokinger,Stikki Peaches, Martino Zegwaard and Armita Raafat. Students can use these photographers and there are steps to show how to achieve these effects on Adobe photoshop used by the photographers There is also a clear example on how to do an analysis of a photographer in your sketchbook To start with there is a recap on composition - how to take a photo and a reminder of the 4 Key objectives used in Photography and an explanation of what key objectives this meets. This powerpoint focuses on the assessment objective 'Develop ideas" from photographers and then how to " Explore" Adobe photoshop techniques to develop your Decay theme.