This hugely detailed resource is a large scale poster that supports students with their artist analysis. Questions and sentences starters are used at every stop to encourage students to think deeply about what they are looking at, the context in which it was made and the elements and principles involved in its creation. Students are guided to describe, interpret, analyze and judge the work and then link this to their own practice and development of their ideas and intentions. This would best support students at KS4 and KS5. I have had this as a large display in my classroom, where it has been used constantly. Three JPG file sizes are included as well as a PDF version: Large: 84 cm x 47.1 cm Medium: 59.4 cm x 33.3 cm Small: 42cm x 23.5 cm

Designed to cover several lessons, this short project is a follow up to the Michael Craig Martin Artist Analysis resource currently available in my shop. The activities look at still life as a method of exploring self identity and investigates what collections of objects might say about us. Students are guided to take photos, and make studies from their own belongings and use these to create a response to the work of Michael Craig Martin. Several outcome options are given as well as extension activities for the more able or keener art student. This task is suitable for remote learning.

This PowerPoint is a single lesson and homework activity which supports analysis of Van Gogh’s still life painting of ‘Red Cabbages and Onions’. This would work well as part of a natural form project, with an emphasis on mark making. The painting itself is looked at in terms of the technique and colours used by the artist. The task involves a worksheet with a gridded study of the original painting and increasingly difficult questions to prompt students to analyse Van Gogh’s work and either discuss or write a response. This task is suitable for remote learning.

An activity that supports students to consider the products and services they use everyday and record in a creative way. This is a good resources to illustrate the idea of mass-production and consumerism as integral themes to Pop Art whilst making it all about the individual student and their daily experience. An A3 sheet of example logos is included to help support the activity. This task is suitable for remote learning.

A cover lesson designed to be fully self explanatory with an accompanying PowerPoint and worksheets to support a range of students in creating their own piece of kooky art inspired by Kandinsky himself. Rather than produce a copy, students are introduced to the artist, his methods and ways of working before being asked to create their own compositions with these key ideas in mind. A step-by-step slide is included to guide and structure the activity and another showing example shapes and designs. 3 different worksheets are also included, one blank and two with shapes to get students started. Can be a self-contained activity or used as a larger project or scheme of work.

This resource explores how the artists Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Naum Gabo were inspired by the masks and sculptures of Western Africa. The youtube video included (link below) was not created by me, but supports this PowerPoint and the discussion points it contains. Students are encouraged to comment on visual similarities and differences and make reasoned judgements as to how each artist was inspired. The worksheet provided encourages note taking, which can then be used to produce a page of visual research in to the topic. This resource can also be used as a contextual task which is part of a larger Cubism scheme of work.