Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
This resource provides visually stimulating slides from A to Z - showing a corresponding art word or term.
Words and terms are purposefully challenging, therefore stretching students specialist vocabulary and knowledge. The resource could contribute to the Art Department's literacy policy.
Included are words such as Decoupage, Impasto and Xylography.
This resource can be used as a slideshow or can be printed for permanent display around the Art room.
This resource comprises a slide show of images of dramatic landscapes, offering inspiration for Art students of all ages. The textural and compositional qualities of the images could potentially provide a starting point for media experimentation and artwork development.
This resource is equally suitable as a cross curricular tool, offering a visual reference for geography students or as inspiration for creative writing. It can be used in conjunction with other Art resources by Mael Matthews on TES.
This resource comprises a slide show of images of dramatic landscapes, offering inspiration for Art students of all ages. The textural and compositional qualities of the images could potentially provide a starting point for media experimentation and artwork development.
This resource is equally suitable as a cross curricular tool, offering a visual reference for geography students or as inspiration for creative writing. It can be used in conjunction with other Art resources by Mael Matthews on TES.
A step by step guide for students and teachers, walking through the development of a thorough Art sketchbook at Middle and High school.
This resource focusses on covering assessment objectives and helps students see how their work can evolve by making links between their observations, the artwork of recognised artists and media experimentation.
An invaluable resource for all students but particularly effective for use with students struggling to grasp the requirements of exam level Art.
This resource also provides the teacher with a clear methodology which can be adopted irrespective of the project theme.
This original resource has been written by Mael Matthews, experienced Head of Art, professional artist and Senior Art Examiner.
Over 30 instructional slides.
Help your students with this resource. The resource provides a set of files to support exam level Art students. Files cover:
How to apply for an art foundation course
How to paint a dramatic seascape
Periods of art history
Questions to consider when analysing art
A guide to 1 point perspective
A guide to the proportions of the human face
A guide to developing an effective sketchbook
This pack could easily be passed on to students in digital form and would provide them with a useful set of support materials.
This thorough resource provides two alternative units of study based on portraiture, two slideshows of faces to provide inspiration, and a step by step guide to developing a face using guidelines to capture accurate proportions. Everything needed to deliver an exciting, rewarding series of lessons based on portraiture.
Updated for 2017 - 18. This resource provides a clear, simple to follow rationale for a scoring system for Key Stage 3. For clarification, a new numeric scoring system is cross referenced with the previous levels and also links to projected GCSE grades (old grading system).
This model is suitable for all subject areas and can be used as it is, or modified to fit the particular needs of your school / college.
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This Christmas Colouring Book provides 24 original colouring sheets - one for each day of December in the run up to the big day! A fun activity to do with your students in the weeks leading up to the holidays ... and perhaps something that they can take away with them to finish off at home.
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15 Christmas themed colouring patterns for students of all ages. These kaleidoscopic patterns offer a fun activity in the run up to the Christmas holidays. They could even be used to inspire Christmas card designs. Many more resources available in our shop. Take a look at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/mael
Merry Christmas from Start Creative!
This fun, festive resource provides a step by step visual guide to drawing a picture of Santa Claus. 56 Slides progress from a blank page to a fully coloured Santa. All that children need to do is follow the visual instruction. Each slide shows a little bit more being added to the picture. There is also scope for them to personalise the picture with their own background. They could even use their pictures to make their own Christmas cards.
A fun activity to keep younger students engaged and happy in the run up to the holidays.
Merry Christmas from Start Creative.
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Christmas is coming and Santa and his Elves need colouring before they can get on with their work! 12 different Elves and Santa himself ready for colouring by Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 students. Merry Christmas!
Original drawings by Mael Matthews.
30 high quality photographic images with a Christmas theme. A PowerPoint containing easy to copy images suitable for insertion into Christmas cards and presentations.
This fun form time game challenges teams to respond to slides that describe a person or animal in or on a place or object doing something. One person then draws the scene whilst team mates try to guess.
This PowerPoint provides rules, descriptive slides and score card.
This is a resource that I have produced to use with my classes this week to give them a well deserved end of term treat.
Merry Christmas from Start Creative
Give students a relaxing colouring activity. Evidence suggests that colouring exercises are effective in calming busy minds in both adults and children. Teachers successfully use them in the classroom to help students re focus. Unfortunately most colouring books are prohibitively expensive. This affordable collection of beautiful original drawings is the solution. 65 beautiful mandalas ready for printing out and adding colour.
All drawings are original and have been produced by Mael Matthews.
This step by step guide will lead Junior and High School students through drawing a human figure in proportion. The simple to follow slides make it a useful tool for demonstrating how to use guide lines to develop the shapes.
This PowerPoint document provides the following information for each of the 5 exam questions:
1. Possible starting points
2. An array of supporting photographic images
3. A list of all critical and contextual studies documented in the questions, each one hyperlinked to a supporting website
4. Hyperlinks to an extensive range of other relevant artwork for each question
Questions covered are The seashore, The spirit of Art Deco, Machinery, Masks, Expressive qualities.
Good luck to you and your students at this important and busy time.
Art education resources. 90 FILES covering everything you could possibly need to run an effective Art Department. Schemes, visuals, planning documents, policies and much more.
This is the biggest, most comprehensive Art resource on TES - Developed to meet the UK Ofsted Framework, but equally suited to the US and Australian Curricula.
90 individual files suitable for students aged 11 to 18. Files include schemes of study, visuals, tutorials, policy documents, student handbooks, promotional materials, exam resources, art history information, images for inspiration, information on techniques … and much more.
Just look at the titles of the files to see what is included.
These resources have all been used in an Art department judged to be “Outstanding” three time in a row over 15 years by Ofsted. If you know of a bigger, more complete Art resource out there, please let us know. We value all feedback.
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This resource provides a "survival pack" for students and teachers. It includes:
How to apply for Art Foundation courses
How to paint dramatic seascapes
An image library of natural forms
Periods of Art history
Questions to consider when analysing art
A guide to 1 point perspective
Drawing faces in proportion
A step by step A level sketchbook guide
Careers in art