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I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.
I work in one of the leading independent schools in the country where our latest inspection report achieved the highest level of 'excellent' in all areas.
I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.
This three-page colour theory exam, with professional looking front cover and answer sheet, is an editable word document and ideal for end of year exams. This resource includes:
Versions for the UK and USA to allow for different spellings.
An editable exam paper that includes 10 questions on primary, secondary, tertiary and complementary colours. Also, tints, shades, warm and cool colours. Colour mixing and harmonious/analogous colours.
An editable front cover where there is space for the student’s name and a space for marking.
An answer sheet.
5 Owl Grid Drawings.
Go on, you know you wanna.
Teach drawing skills, such as line and tone. Ideal for homework, a cover lesson or some end of term fun.
This super-useful worksheet teaches students the art of cross hatching. It gives two examples, Durer and Da Vinci and asks student to complete two tasks. This would fit into any drawing skills workshop or work as a cover lesson or homework.
There are two versions of this one page resource - one which uses the word ‘tones’ and one which uses the word ‘values’.
Click on the drawing skills bundle to the right of this resource to buy this with other drawing skills worksheets.
This worksheet has been designed for gallery visits. There is a space in the middle to make a sketch. It asks the following questions:
Your Name
Title of Artwork
Name of Artist
What have you looked at?
What media has the artist used?
what colours has the artist used?
What kind of marks or techniques has the artist used?
What kind of shapes and forms can you see?
How does the artwork relate to other artworks in the exhibition?
How does the artwork make you feel?
The same worksheet is uploaded as a .jpg and pdf. I'm not sure why you can only see the top part of the pdf. When you download it, it is all there - I have checked!!
Keywords: gallery visit, gallery education, analysing art, visiting galleries, gallery activities.
A grid to help assess an observational drawing. The grid looks at line, tone, shading, detail and accuracy. This could be used for teacher, peer or self assessment.
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Three different 'ice-breaker bingo' sheets. This is ideal if you have a new group of students. All students need to do is talk to everyone in the group and find individuals who have done the things on their bingo sheet. e.g. eaten sushi, play a musical instrument, broken a bone, been to a festival...
This really gets students talking to each other and is a great warm up activity.
This creative Pointillism Eye project, teaches students about Pointillism, Seurat and optical mixing. It includes everything you need. Ideal for a post-sats project or for Year 7.
It starts with Students looking at a PowerPoint on Pointillism focusing on Seurat. (16 slides) It includes a script and looks at:
A definition for Pointillism
Seurat & Signac
How the Impressionists influenced them.
Two of Seurats paintings in detail.
Pablo Jurado Ruiz, a contemporary artists who used pointillism today.
How to mix colours using Pointillism.
Then a stage by stage look at how the ‘good example’ (Main picture above) was built up.
A Pointillism worksheet enables students practice optical mixing - this also helps create a great display.
You then have two choices. Either get your students to draw an eye, (using the eye drawing reference sheet provided) or use the faint eye provided and ask students to add dots over the top.
There is a Self Assessment sheets that looks at how closely they have applied their dots and how neatly. (Two on an A4 page)
There are suggested extension tasks.
Duration:
Using faint eye: 2 hrs 5 mins.
Drawing own eye: 3 hrs.
(There suggested extension tasks could make this a lot longer!)
I am always looking to improve my resources, so if you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments box.
Three useful worksheets to complement any Angie Lewin Project
The first worksheet I use to get my class to work in different media in the four different boxes e.g. hot colours, cold colours, blending, pencil work, watercolour etc
The second sheet has blank boxes. This would be useful if you wanted your class to come up with four different designs for a final piece.
The last work sheet is a larger line drawing. You could either work in one media (perhaps the one that was the most successful on the first sheet) or use a compass or viewfinder to select sections of it, and work in different media.
These would also be useful for cover work.
I know! I know! You hardly ever have a spare minute in form with all those diaries to sign or check and all those letters to give out! However, if you ever have a spare moment here are 14 fun and/or educational activities to keep them busy. Each are 5 to 10 minutes long.
Activities include discussion, word and maths puzzles, guess the artwork, name the flag, recognise the logo and many more! All the instructions and answers are in the notes section of the PowerPoint and each activity includes an objective so you are inspection ready!
This took hours to make! I hope you find these useful, and if you do, please leave some positive feedback.
Enjoy!
Students copy the detail of the sugar skull and then the mirror image of a sugar skull. Ideal to teach drawing skills and to link with Day of Dead festival units of work.
Includes a lesson plan.
3 gargoyle grid drawings which are excellent for teaching detailed, tonal drawing.
There are two versions of each grid drawing. One with the grid in place and one where there are tiny marks around the edge of the square so that students can draw their own lines.
This drawing fruit worksheet is a must have for fruit and vegetable projects. High-resolution images work well in colour and when photocopied into black and white. Use it as a sub lesson or integrate it into fruit or natural forms projects.
The accompanying lesson plan is written as a sub lesson and includes a scripted paragraph for a non-specialist.
This useful presentation could be used to start many different projects but was written for a scheme of work that focuses on ‘Close-Ups&’.\nAfter this presentation you could draw close-ups of natural forms and then turn the drawings into paintings.
Are you fed up with hearing ‘I can’t draw’? Me too! I shall be doing everything I can to change this fixed mindset attitude with my classes and will be using this one page resource to infuse a growth mindset into my students.
This resources also includes a page of suggested answers. This makes a great starter or discuss it in class and then set it as a homework.
This ‘Managing Wellbeing and Stress’ assembly talks to students about the importance of exercise, sleep and how they can use meditation, natural sounds, healthy eating and positive thinking to help relieve stress. It’s tone is light-hearted and engaging. It includes a section where students have the choice to join in with a meditation or to just listen.
It will send you students out into the day feeling positive.
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes
