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.
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.
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.
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
This is part of the self-identity project. Students firstly do a mindmap questioning and finding out about their own personal identity.
Students then do a monoprint and then use cultural images to collage into their monoprint portrait.
Then after this there is an extension to this project where students use Chila Burman and draw out a large body and in a group collage into this using tattoo patterns and symbols.
The Learning Objectives for this task is:
To develop into monoprinting cultural symbols and patterns.
Brief study of Chila Burman and looking at her collage work.
Cultural awareness of our differences and create interesting patterns and textures and symbols of our culture.
Understanding of different styles
Looking at a brief understaning of Tattoo art.
Appreciation of own patterns and self-identity
Collaging: Photographs of everyday items, patterns, favourite clothes, pictures of household items, objects that show own culture and self-identity
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.
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.
A mandala drawing - showing basic steps - to build a patterned line drawing.
In this task the students are asked to draw 4 rings using any object they have at home to make the circular rings.
Students are then given clear instructions on how to break up the circle and are given examples of patterns to follow.
There is also a very good video clip which gives clear guidelines.
At the end of the making of the Mandala students are asked to do research into the Mandala and to find out what makes up a mandala. There are questions for students to answer.
Attached are three powerpoints for developing a KS3 Collage in Fabric on the 12 Days of Xmas and the artist Aminah Robinson.
Students use the ‘resources’ powerpoint to draw ideas to make up their own design for the 12 days of Xmas.
Class divided and each child gets a different day to design.
I used Black velvet fabric as my backing fabric and each time the student did their drawing I traced this onto different coloured fabric shapes and students then cut this out and pritt sticked this onto the black velvet fabric.
see powerpoint of song '12 days of xmas ’ for resources
see powerpoint Artist interpretation and learning about different fabric artists.
see powerpoint on stitchung techniques
Thirdly, students then cut their designs out in fabric - I used transfer receipt like paper so students could trace onto the fabric and then cut out.
Finally students then embellish their fabric with different stitches and I have a powerpoint with video links on how to do the different stitches: running stitch, blanket stitch, satin stitch, chain stitch and daisy stitch…
This is a full unit of work on Still life. It starts with an appreciation of what was before there was Modern Art and students draw a mindmap in their book.
There is a wealth of pictures of still-life objects to draw from so teachers can just copy the slides for students to work from.
Students will need to do a mark-making exercise in pencil and pen and complete two drawings of the objects.
Students then look at how to use chalk and charcoal on black paper and do a study of Still-life in the Dutch era by looking at the ‘vanitas still-life’s’ and do a skull drawing using the chalk and charcoal. Students will also need to practice markmaking in this technique.
Students then go on to look at Pop Art and what happened with the development of photography and the influence of this consumer style on the art world. There is a study of Pop Art and students will be able to have an opportunity to look at what makes up Pop Art. The students need to make up a Pop art style, coloured collage in coloured paper or use felt tips to create an object in Pop art style.
There is on this powerpoint a wealth of objects for students to draw from and this can be printed off for students.
Finally students put this together into a finished still life arrangement and there are lots of student examples for you to use.
I hope you enjoy this project.
A powerpoint outlining some tasks for a Key Stage 3 project on Tim Burton. In this project there are a number of skills, pencil drawingwith pen work, chalk and charcoal drawing on black paper, making a black and white silhouette cut out, collaging harcoal drawing onto bottle and painting bottle, further developing a character on a bottle and making a wool paper character. This also has a few quizzes and student examples of work to support the tasks.
Starting with presenting a title page for Tim Burton and copying some of his scenes by practising pencil tone and mark making. Layering pencil and black pen in drawing when copying Burton’s work Photocopy examples for students to work from to print off.
Then developing a cut out in black paper looking at the strange, Gothic type black and white silhouettes of some of his scenes and making a page on his settings using black paper and cut-outs.
The slides give a number of the silhouette type scenes for students to use for inspiration. Further developing a character drawing and students are to look at the number of different slides and these could be printed off for students and letting them develop their own character. Some of the You tube film clips are linked on the slides as well. Students draw out the character and then colour this in.
Tim Burton’s scenes are often dark and atmospheric and this is an ideal opportunity to practise drawing with white chalk, charcoal or black soft pastel on black sugar paper and to do a drawing of one of his black and white characters. There are some examples to use to copy from to support the students learning. This black and white scene can further be photocopied and collaged onto a bottle. There is also an extension task to make a head on a wine bottle in paper-mache and lots of inspirational examples of student work
Another fun task is to play with wool and paper and to make a rolled animal using newspaper in rolls and then wrapping wool around this and to bend into shape. This can further be embellished by adding bits and bobs like buttons, braid and other decorative details to develop a character type animal which has been inspired by Burton.
There are a few quizzes and homework tasks as well.
Looking at the work of Peter Blake- there is a page of information and questions on his work.
There are examples of his alphabet artworks and cover designs for Famous Music artists.
Students are inspired by his work of collage, photography and free drawing style.
Task 1. Students make their own Pop art alphabet style and this links to Graphics and students can look at Pop art letter styles.
Task 2 Students are asked to find their own popular things linked to each letter of the alphabet. Students are asked to make their own alphabet using the similar ideas as Peter Blake, but to focus on trying to create a favourite thing for each of letter of the alphabet. Students then put these ideas on an A4 or A3 paper. There are examples of different alphabets and student examples of final outcome.
Task 4 Students play with letters and take one letter and make this in various different designs This is a Graphics exercise and students learn to play with one letter and styles.
Task 3 Students put a collage together in the style of Peter Blake. Students should use lettering/ graphics and link this to their own favourite things and then make a collage of this in a 26cm square shape. students can use pictures from magazines , comics and newspaper and cut out and collage.
Task 5 Students should creatively now make their own album design. There are formats for the CD covers to use as a template. Presentation gives examples for inspiration of Peter Blake’s alphabet designs and album covers and looks at some of his famous Album cover designs. Students need to make their own CD cover of their favourite musician. Students to use a variety of media for final task.
**Self -Identity portrait project. **
This is lesson 1 where students take their own photo and then start to do a drawing of parts of the face. There are examples of face details and then there is an example of how to scale this up. There is a homework biro drawing task.
(In the Bundle there are other lessons to follow up on this drawing of task, where students have to interpret their face in various artist styles and culturally interpret their own identity. )
Lesson objectives
Objectives
To draw the proportions of the face in your book
To do a photo-shoot and take a photo to use for your portrait drawing where you scale up this picture.
To consolidate how to draw parts of the face.
To do a pencil tonal value
To practise mark-making with a pen
Through out the whole scheme the project
**success criterias **are:
To learn about the proportions of the face
To practise drawing various parts of the face
To draw a portrait drawing using the grid technique
To look at various examples of portrait drawings
To develop a tonal grid and to understand the light and dark planes in a face.
To understand how to do a grid drawing
This is a project where students are asked to choose an artist to study their style.
Student’s question and develop an understanding of What is a style?
Outcome of this project is that students in year 7 do their own portrait interpretation using the artists and create a mixed media collage based on the selected artist.
There is an exploration on using a variety of media.
Students develop their own skills exploring how to make their own portrait in the style of the artist.
Students use a photocopy of a photograph of themselves to work from.
There is an emphasis on experimentation and students can bring in found textures to collage.
Students use the four artists to make a copy of the four artists styles in a grid on a page: Hundertwasser, Klimt, Ofili and Van Gogh.
TASK 1
The first part of the project is the Artist Research in 4 grids. One for each artist.
Students in the grid discuss the characteristics of each artist’s use of line, colour, shape and texture. There is an individual slide on each artist which highlights with close up pictures showing the markmaking of each artist.
Teacher to go through each slide of each artist and copy the pictures as an example for students to work from.
Students write out the name in each gird, how each artist has a different way of using their marks and then in the grid copies a detail of the artist’s work. This is completed in pencil crayons. Students can also use an object and interpret this in styles - there is an example
Students also brainstorm words to describe the artist. Students also describes the use of elements in each work. Students also discuss the main characteristics of the artist and how they have used their line, colour, shape, texture and how the artist has composed the picture (that is, put it together).
This should take 2 lessons - with students completing the work for homework
TASK 2
Once students have analysed this they can go on to make their own portrait by choosing one of the artists. There are lots of examples of students work in this powerpoint to give examples of how to go about this project. Students to be given a photocopy picture of themselves to work from
This should take 3 lessons in class.
Objectives:
Use of found textures, collage materials and paint to interpret a style looking at the way the student experimented with the use of materials to create the style
Explore media creatively when interpreting artist.
Develop vocabulary and to understand the different ways of using lines, shapes and colours and students begin to analyse the artworks critically describing each work.
To begin to understand that each artist has their own way of interpreting their subject and each person has the own way of making their own style
To analyse and interpret four different artist’s styles and begin to make a personal response to one of these artists.
To complete a self- portrait in the style of an artist.
This is a step by step drawing of a cupcake - showing how to start with basic shapes and then adding in the detail and the shading. This is part of the modern movements project where students make a cake stand with various cup cakes in different art styles linked to modern movements: Expressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Fauvism, Realism, Surrealism.
It also has some slides showing how to do some mark-making exercises to build up students ability to control pencil skills and to capture detail.
Students can also draw from a picture of a cup-cake or preferably have a real cup-cake in front of them to draw from.
Students can also use the grid method to draw a cupcake and there is a picture of this technique to help.
This is a source to show students various art styles and examples of artists who do interesting portraits.
It starts with Frida Kahlo and then goes through all the important portrait artists like Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Van Gogh, Picasso and then takes through a number of other artists with interesting styles, Hundertwasser, Gary Hume, Chila Burman, Sonya Boyce, Leger, Picabia, Dali and much more.
To be used as presentation to introduce students to artists who paint portraits in different styles.
Could be printed out as laminated sheets for students to see different portraits.
**What are the Learning Objectives for this project in Art? **
Students learn from examples and a clear understanding to totem poles is explained visually in slides, also different video clips about Totem poles and their story telling. There are slides which give a background to totem poles. Lots of symbols for different animals given on separate slides which could be used ot make the totem pole.
Students through the research into totem poles will gain an appreciation of how religion and spirituality holds in Native American cultures.
Students will be able to communicate experiences, moods, and stories and reflect on their own family history and family tree in a group project.
Students to create images using the elements and principles and design their totem imaginatively.
Using pictures of animals - students can stylise and create a symmetry outcome to use in the building of their animal/sun/bird/man for their totem pole.
Each student completes a different part of the totem pole and students need to work in teams
Students create images in response to objects from a variety of cultural contexts as students look at and watch various ‘You Tube’ video links about the Totem pole story telling.
Students demonstrate awareness of Pacific Coast heritage
The slides give a sequence of classroom activities leading to the making of a cardboard totem pole.
Students use recycled materials and build their animal/bird/sun/man they designed.
There is an emphasis on coloured paper and pasting this into the cardboard and building up the structure.
Students will complete the following:
**Teamwork: **Complete a group totem pole.
Graphic Design: Design a group/tribe logo.
Independent Research: Interview a Family member and research family history
3D Sculpture Design: Design a totem sculpture that represents your family history in 100 years time.
Recycling materials: Students use recycled materials and construct a standing Totem.
Students can embellish and decorate their totem with coloured paper cut outs and black pen line work.
This is a lesson for self identity project after students complete the scaling up of their face in pencil.
Using a photocopy students then do a mono-print of their face and later interpret this into an artist style.
There are also some links to You tube clips of different ways to do the mono-print.
To do a set of three monoprints using one’s photograph to draw with
To do 1. a line drawing of one’s portrait carefully following the detail of portrait. Use one’s fingers to create some tonal areas
To do 2. a line drawing of ones portrait and then in the ghost print to draw into this surface and to print this
To do 3 a line drawing of a portrait but to lay a stencil on your ink block before you do the print.
Firstly consolidating watercolour skills in this project the powerpoint then goes to look at the artist called Hundertwasser. Looking in depth at Hundertwasser, developing an Artist Study presentation after going to the computer room to find information on this artist and to analyse one picture of his work.
Students are then asked to on four separate sheets to draw out the key symbols and elements in Hundertwasser’s work. .
Students are then given pictures of buildings and asked to continue to apply his style and to make some drawings inspired by his work.
Examples of all these are given with student examples.
This project then further developed into making a clay tile after formulating an orignal own interpretation of Hundertwasser. There are plenty of student examples for you to look at.
I have also added further extension tasks on Hundertwasser and some further interesting facts about his work.
OBJECTIVES
To develop an understanding of the work of Hundertwasser by studying the elements from Hundertwasser’s work.
To copy some of Hundertwasser’s symbols with your pencil.
To draw out Hundertwasser’s Onion domes, Lollipop trees, Faces and Spirals.
To draw out a large picture of Lollipop trees of Hundertwasser and to use colour on this
To use pictures of buildings and then to imaginatively interpret one’s own version of Hundertwasser using the research ideas completed into his use of symbols
Students make up their own design of Hundertwasser in pencil and then in colour.
To make a clay tile based on the design steps above- examples of student outcomes are given.
Task 1 ‘Key Elements in the Art of Hundertwasser’
Copy out the picture given on slide 3 and label the key elements Hundertwasser uses in his work. You may use any materials you have to do this. It can be in colour or black and white with your pencil. Do this carefully.
This tasks help to assess abilities and specific skills in Art. This helps to establish a Baseline Assessment for Art after having completed all these exercises. This should take 10-12 lessons. Please work through each exercise carefully.
The aim of this diagnostic assessment is to look at specific skills used in art.
This diagnostic study is to try to assess different skills in Art. The tasks given are for the different learning/skills in art and it allows the pupils to explore these. There are tasks given for each area of learning.
Areas of learning with task:
ILLUSIONISTIC learner: draw illusionistically, blind drawing and upside down drawing exercises.
CARTOGRAPHIC learner: draw a personal logo (black and white pattern)(use on art books as a name tag).
TACTILE learner: Looking at Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Chris Ofili and Hundertwasser’ portrait works, their use of lines, shapes, colours and textures. Pupils will choose one of these artists to develop in a tactile way using re-cycled materials.
SPATIAL learner: drawing with wire and string, assess whether good at sculptural form.
Furthermore, assess the students ability to write ANALYTICALLY and to critically analyse a painting… The pupils will also need to self assess and evaluate their outcomes.
At the end of this exercise we would be able to assess pupils strengths and weaknesses in art at KS 3 and there are many opportunities in the presentation for evaluation.
How to create an illusionistic space and to draw from first hand observation using blind drawing skills, contour line drawing, upside-down drawing and mark-making.
Focus on how to shade using dark and light tones with pencil and biro pens and focus on mark-making.
3 a To critically analyse other artist’s styles and techniques and select and question critically, making reasoned choices when developing work from observation.
3 b. Explore tactile qualities and select a range of materials to interpret a style of an artist. Develop a portrait using tactile materials.
Investigate how to express ideas using design skills and design processes and the formal elements like line, colour and flat shapes with patterns
Exploring drawing with a 3D structure and looking at shape and line with construction of wire developing spatial recognition.
Analysing an artwork and investigating the formal elements used in an artwork.
Reflect on and evaluate one’s own and others’ work, adapting and refining the outcomes.
Presentation should also be assessed at the end of these exercises. Students should also always write a heading and the lesson objective clearly at the top of each page. There are clear evaluation sheets and assessment opportunities in the unit of work.
All tasks are presented with Lesson Objective and clear practical tasks.