Expressive Painting Formal Elements: Age 11-16 FULL Contemporary Scheme inc. thinking skills. Improve your student's painting techniques whilst learning the FORMAL ELEMENTS of art. Using Essential Big Questions this FULL Unit of Work is beautifully designed to challenge and stretch your students whilst learning the history of abstract art from beginnings to present day. It has been written for students with a reading age of 11 years and is designed to be delivered over a longer period of time. There's so much deep learning in this project and it can be used on many levels, use it for a full GCSE project or just cherry pick elements of it to suit your teaching.

This fully illustrated 80 page guide to classroom printmaking features thirteen printmaking ideas and techniques that you can use in your busy classroom using common, low cost, everyday and scrap items. They don’t require you to have any art experience, just the willingness to give them a try. The techniques can be linked to many areas of the curriculum, especially maths, where some suggestions are outlined. Your pupils will LOVE doing these creative activities and they can be used at Primary Key Stage One, Key Stage Two or Secondary Key Stage Three or even Key Stage Four. Featured printmaking methods include: Collograms, Foil Etching, Mono Printing, Neoprene Foam Printing, Glue Gun Printing, Making your own stamps, String Printing, Repeat Printing, Playdough Printing, Roller Printing and many many more. Each technique is shown as a fully photographically illustrated, step-by-step guide. The download comes with a printable Pdf guide to Printmaking and an accompanying Powerpoint slide presentation to use in your classroom. Also included is a FREE illustrated guide to Lino Printing!

Suitable for most age ranges, this very flexible project combines digital photography with the art of observational drawing. It is a great project for getting some quality, expressive drawing work in student’s portfolios at exam stage or for teaching younger students to ‘see’ more closely. A very expressive and open lesson, students are free to express what they see in a variety of styles. I've had great results from this as a topic for less able students or teaching experimentation with materials. I've used it as a GCSE project and in the Primary phase. It's easy, effective and fun!

This lesson is well loved by children and uses my own secret techniques for making 3D animals that gets great results! It contains a Lesson Plan, Powerpoint presentation and teacher instructions and shows you in a clear, step-by-step guide how to make beautiful clay animals. Includes a ‘How to Make your own air-drying clay’ recipe so you can use this even if you don’t have a kiln. My students love doing this at Primary and Secondary level, everyone loves making animals!

This lesson challenges students to invent a secret language then use it to draw in an abstract way to communicate words and phrases in their own unique style. By comparing this to abstract artists they will be able to better understand the language of drawing. Complete with full Lesson Plan and Resources, it also comes with a free Doodle starter activity and an extension task presentation.

I've revised and updated my baseline test to include measuring across the four main attainment areas of Making Skills, Ideas, Knowledge and Evaluation. My test takes only one lesson to complete plus one homework task and marking is done in the lesson itself. I've used this test for years and I know it works well. I was a member of the NSEAD Curriculum Writing Group that wrote the curriculum competencies, more formally called the: 'Framework for Progression, Planning for Learning, Assessment, Recording and Reporting 2014.’ For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

For those who would assess their current ability as: “I can draw a little bit, but I'm not very confident. I need lots of help.” This stage of drawing develops the idea of seeing simple geometry when drawing from observation. It develops more advanced drawing and shading of 3D objects and observational shading to create form. There is also a 3D lettering project that brings all of these skills together. Beginner Stage drawing is for students approx 7-11 age to develop 3D drawing and shading. This stage contains lessons in: 3D Shapes. Shading a Cube/Cylinder, Shading a Sphere, Still Life Drawing, Lettering, Perspective, Cartoon Shading, Plus worksheets and assessment sheets. The download contains 3 Windows format videos, 8 Powerpoint presentations plus a fully illustrated marking Pdf. This is an NSEAD recommended resource.

This 3D sculpture unit focuses on creating a whole class 3D mural in the style of contemporary artist Tony Cragg whilst at the same time teaching colour theory and craft techniques. It develops visual literacy and the ability to analyse art work and incorporates three different ways of making the final piece from cheap, common everyday items. It is slightly more expensive due to copyright royalties of Tony's work, but you will have a great school mural at the end of it. It comes with a student booklet, photocopiable resources, presentation, lesson plan and templates for making a large classroom art piece.

Complete with beautiful supporting illustrations, a teaching Powerpoint a detailed Lesson Plan with full instructions, fish illustrations and a cross-hatching animation, this 4-6 hour project teaches students to illustrate fish in detail using cross-hatching pen and ink techniques, before inventing their own weird and crazy fish to draw, design and make in a variety of ways. The tutorials show you methods of making fish in clay, wire or 3D. Great for Primary or key stage 3 year 7 to 8.

A delightful project for key stage 1 that draws on the artwork of the contemporary artist Takahashi Murakami to inspire painting skills, colour theory, colour mixing, and lots of imaginative painting exercises. One for younger key stage 1 children, the lessons support literacy too. Contains presentation, work booklet with worksheets and art images for you to use in class. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

The Alien Landscape Lesson is a 2-3 hour lesson comprising of Lesson Plan, Powerpoint resources, photographs, artist links and handouts. It will show your students the principles of landscape drawing and painting, colour, depth of field, tonal range and scale etc. in an enjoyable and stimulating project that young people enjoy. Boys LOVE this project! Once your pupils have learned these principles they can move on to landscape painting with the knowledge and tools they need to do it successfully.

Fully Revised and updated for 2016! This 36 page eBook explains how to embed effective art assessment into your classroom practice at the Secondary key Stage 3 phase from Year 7 to Year 9. It outlines the new DfE and Ofsted expectations, and also contains a fully illustrated PROGRESSION model showing you examples of students work, it lists specific learning targets year on year to help making the teaching of art easier and includes baseline benchmarking tests. Everything you need is included including exciting posters for your classroom and supporting files. Written by a member of the team that wrote the NSEAD art competencies, Paul is an AST and experienced art teacher at both Primary and Secondary levels. He was also a member of the DfE subject expert group for art. This is an NSEAD recommended resource. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

Pop Art gets a 21st Century facelift! This a Contemporary Scheme aimed at improving thinking skills and asks deep, Essential Questions of your students to learn how Modern Art has evolved into a thriving contemporary movement. And instead of just making a bland Pop Art style picture, the students are challenged to think about how the media affects their life. I’ve taught this unit to young children and exam classes alike with great results. Crucial to the project's success is the student refining and developing their ideas in light of peer and self evaluation. Includes resources on thinking skills and the 'Pointless' game to help you teach the thinking skills your students need. This project is very motivational and can be used year after year with constantly different results, my students loved it.

A comprehensive introduction for those who are at the very beginning stage of drawing and would assess their current ability as: 'I can't even draw a stick man!' The download contains video tutorials, presentations and exercises. As its name suggests, Foundation pre-stage drawing is the level I would place people on who are complete novices. Contained in these tutorials are lessons about how to shade simple shapes, some basic drawing tips and your very first drawing lessons for the stick man artists out there. Typically, students working at this stage will be aged 7-9 or completely lack the confidence to draw anything. The download contains: Basic Tips in drawing, Drawing Simple Shapes, Shading Part 1a; Flat tones, Shading Part 1b; Light to Dark, Cartoon Drawing. Also provided are worksheets, baseline test and assessment sheets. Contains 5 Windows format videos, 5 Powerpoint presentations and a fully illustrated marking sheet. This is an NSEAD recommended resource.

Three photocopiable worksheets for teaching children how to mix colours to make them darker and lighter, increase brush control and blend them smoothly. I've used these exercises for years so I know they work well. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

Whatever phase of art you teach at, these exercises will help redefine and refocus your art practice. This eBook is a series of 12 art and design approaches that have been designed to show you how to create new, or adapt existing art themes into alternative ways to approach art. It explains each approach clearly and gives simple examples of what they mean and how to apply them. Armed with this knowledge you will be able to more easily adapt an existing art activity, project or topic into a much more relevant learning process. You should gain a clearer understanding of how to make your art lessons fun, thought provoking, engaging and interesting. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

This exciting project is a new slant on the traditional 'identity' project used in many school art departments, except this version does not depend on the ability to draw a self portrait, but rather uses found objects and symbolism to create deep, meaningful pieces of art. What's more, the project embeds cross-curricular learning, integrating Religious Education themes on identity with Mathematics of Net Making and construction of 3D shapes. The download contains a full Scheme of Work and four PowerPoint presentations as well as photocopiable NET templates, artist links and student examples to help you. This was one of my favourite projects as a teacher!

A simple skills sheet to show you how to make textured images. Great for novice teachers. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

How can you teach pupils how to generate high quality ideas in art? What different types of ideas are there in art and how can you easily demonstrate to pupils what they look like? This entirely original concept has been produced by me from years of teaching original art. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700