This resource is helpful at GCSE and A-level to teach how to apply acrylic paint with a scraper, a ruler or a card to drag colours and to overlap layers of colours. The resource has examples of Viera da Silva’s work to give to students. Students will need cardboard and a bank card and use this to apply the paint. Students need to practise copying her work with only a bank card to create the marks. Students need to cut the card in various sizes

There are a number if pictures resourced that relate to the song ‘12 days of Xmas’ Lyrics On the first day of Christmas My true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree On the second day of Christmas My true love sent to me Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the third day of Christmas My true love sent to me Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the fourth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the fifth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the sixth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Six geese a laying Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the seventh day of Christmas My true love sent to me Seven swans a swimming Six geese a-laying Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the eighth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Eight maids a milking Seven swans a swimming Six geese a-laying Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the ninth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Nine ladies dancing Eight maids a-milking Seven swans a-swimming Six geese a-laying Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the tenth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Ten lords a-leaping Nine ladies dancing Eight maids a-milking Seven swans a-swimming Six geese a-laying Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the 11th day of Christmas My true love sent to me I sent 11 pipers piping Ten lords a-leaping Nine ladies dancing Eight maids a-milking Seven swans a-swimming Six geese a-laying Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree On the 12th day of Christmas My true love sent to me 12 drummers drumming Eleven pipers piping Ten lords a-leaping Nine ladies dancing Eight maids a-milking Seven swans a-swimming Six geese a-laying Five golden rings (five golden rings) Four calling birds Three French hens Two turtle-doves And a partridge in a pear tree And a partridge in a pear tree

This is a powerpoint which gives tasks to interpret the style of Hundertwasser. There are worksheets and information on the artist. This is part of a project where students design a tile shape in colour using a building phito as an inspiration and stylise this into their own design. Students then turn this into a clay tile outcome.

The powerpoint gives key questions to ask under the theme of Self-identity and shows some examples of interpreting oneself in different styles - Picasso, Van Gogh, Gainsborough and Chila Burman. There are questions to use to make an artist study on chosen artist.There is a further brainstorm on what one could make as a final idea which would embody my identity and examples of student’s work.

The powerpoint consists of the following: Students will learn about Wassily Kandinsky and his abstract Art and be able to make their own version of Kandinsky while listening to four pieces of music. Task 1: Describing artwork tasks (slide2) Task 2: Answer questions on Kandinsky (slide 3) Task 3: Listening to music and interpreting this (slide 4) Divide your paper into 4 blocks as seen in the example and in your blocks you need to draw what you interpret while listening to the four pieces of music. Listen to the You Tube tracks of music - one at a time. While listening to the music in each block while you listen to the music you need to draw what the music makes you feel. (Copy the http address into search to hear music) That is, you need to Interpret the music by drawing shapes, colours, textures, lines, forms, images and what you feel the music represents.

A short presentation highlighting the key facts and characteristics of the German Expressionism. There are references to a number of artists, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rotluf, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Otto Mueller. Expressionism was made up of Der Brucke Art movement and Der Blaue Reiter - there are also examples of these artists linked to Expressionism. Der Blaue Reiter is Frans Marck and Wassily Kandinsky. Key examples given with notes about the movement to be used as worksheets for students.

This is for all ages - showing how one can use found objects and recycle them to make creative designs. It is to inspire students to design a dress/ costume and to then find re-cycled materials to use. There is also a page of techniques- showing how to use plastics and fuse these with string, threads and to add in wax, pastels drawings. There are outcomes as well with the result of making the plastic fusion. Some good examples of innovative designers and how they have used materials to make dresses. This is good for GCSE for those students who want to make dresses or for a project on recycling and fashion.

A sculptural project or life drawing project inspired by the famous British artist, the drawings of Henri Moore. Looking at the ink wash drawings of Henry Moore in detail his presentation shows loads of examples of the way he sketched his body shapes and looks at the way he simplified the bodies into organic shapes. This is a good presentation to show KS3 how to simplify and to distort drawings of different poses into organic shapes. This can be used for KS3 making abstract body sculptures and shows how to reduce, simplify, re-arrange and to distort drawings into a pleasing harmonious shape. It can also be used for A-level students doing life drawing and giving ways to explore different wax resist techniques with ink washes. There are loads of pictures of Henri Moore’s Drawings and hopefully will inspire outcomes and enable students to develop some confidence when drawing figures. This presentation can be bought with the Life drawing presentation.

To explain various printing techniques - like relief printing, mono-printing and silkscreening. Slides showing a history of printmaking, from Early letterpress, to Japanese, Picasso, Expressionism and Andy Warhol. Students to be shown how printmaking developed in visuals. There are various historical examples to show the early print works and how they developed. Also linking to projects for students to get ideas to develop their own work. Each printing technique has You Tube clips with specific tasks in the presentation. Student tasks - to write a definition for each style of print. Students to make a presentation in books. Heading in book Stick in your prints when they are totally dry What is … printing? What types of . _____are there? E.g additive, subtractive? Give an example a print artist. Describe your print process. Did you find it difficult or easy.? Do you like the quality of your printing? There is a detailed explanation of each of these three types of printing for students to copy and very informative to support printing techniques. Good for KS 3 but also at GCSE.

A set of 8 slides which describe the key characteristics of Dadaism and gives some examples of their works and looks at Surrealism and gives examples of some Surrealist artists. To use as worksheets in class where students can read about the movements and develop an understanding on the movements. A description of Duchamp, Man Ray, Dali, Ernst and Magritte with key examples of their work.

This is an examples of photographs of a sketchbook of an A* Art coursework project for an A2 student, who looked at experimental surfaces and textures to develop an exciting unique outcome. This was based on her nature photographs and showed a number of different layering techniques. The final piece was a window display made up of glue skins with layers and textures. There are references to artists she used as well.

This is a slide of lots of different images of pictures of portraits and figures. The next slide is of the vocabulary list and words to match with the pictures. Print the pictures out on a sheet of A3 and get students to match the visual and words. This is for any age group and relates to a topic on portraiture.

This is a powerpoint on the theme Broken and refers to the Eastern concept of Wabi Sabi - where one sees beauty in imperfections. There are lots of examples to get students to think of broken and the meaning of this and what is beauty? Students are asked to do a mind map of broken and try to describe situations where something is broken and what the meaning is of this and question its beauty? Lots of examples of different examples of artworks to show Broken. If this was a GCSE theme students to use this as prompts to help develop ideas on the theme.

This is a few slides of portrait drawings and to use as a starter activity where students can analyse the marks, lines and textures used to capture the portrait. Students in pairs look at the lines used in the portraits and quickly analyse and describe the quality of the marks and what effect this has on the drawing. A good way to find meaning in the marks and to get the mood of a drawing.

Examples of paintings of different viewpoints of famous paintings from the Early Renaissance, to Max Beckmann and Anthony Green - looking at composition and different ways of looking at a subject.

This is a resource of examples of artists who use text in their artwork and there are some examples of artists who show movement in their work. There is also an activity to collage a set of black and white newspaper/magazine and make your own version creatively using text to show movement.

Use the Singh Twins to inspire a collage on Self-identity Year 9 project at KS3. Students make a collage of their own photographs and favourite things. Transfer this and trace to a coloured washed background and paint in shapes and add in the fine pen line work to give detail.

This is part of a set of HUNDERTWASSER POWERPOINTS. In this powerpoint the students use their design they made for their tiles and make a tile in clay in the style of Hundertwasser. In this powerpoint there are examples of how to roll and make the tile with key clay steps to follow and include in tile. There are student outcomes to look at while using key skills in making of a tile. Students paint these with acrylic paints and varnish with PVA glue or a Varnish gloss when dry.

Students are to first of all look at the artist Gregg Segal and analyse his work and then take a photograph in the style of this artist. There are two tasks to this project: Task 1: Read the text and complete the questions on the artist Gregg Segal Task 2 Make a photograph in the style of Gregg Segal Steps for Success: Make it original and interesting, your animal, dog, space and all the things that make you during quarantine. You do not have to show your face. Develop an understanding of Gregg Segal and answer the questions.

Used in a house competition where each House makes a different set of animals for Chinese New year in a different technique. Animals in paper art, photoghrapy manipulation of animals, Painting animals, Plastic animals and paper mache artists. Students work in groups and each group makes a different way of making a set of animals. This is a fun activity for KS 3 Art project or an after school club.