Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
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 short project for students to take a photograph of a doodle they do and where they combine it with an object.
Students look at the artist Vincent Bal and there are video links to his Shadowology work.
Students are then asked to make up their own version of this by taking an object in their house and then turning this into a picture by combining this object with a doodle.
There are some short questions to answer on the work of Vincent Bal.
A Still-life project basic one page 5 min scheme with Dirt and Weekly plan.
See the Still-life project on TES.
This is an overview of acstill-life project which entails drawing in different media a still-life composition. Below are a list of all the lessons.
ART THEMES before modern art. What? Modern Art? and Still-life?
Composition? Rule of thirds. Organising still life. Paper prepare: Black/brown paper: newspaper/music, Draw Still-life in line.
3 Exploring pencil mark-making techniques. Pencil tonal study of geometric shapes
4 Pop Art discussions – To make a 2D coloured flat shape area of composition
5 Explore with Oil pastel: Using oil pastel detail
6 and 7 Exploring pen mark-making techniques. To draw over a Cubism Collage using a biro pen
8 Exploring Charcoal techniques Drawing on black paper using white chalk/charcoal.
Research Artist study on Robert Raushenberg library
10 – Evaluation of still-life drawing project
11, 12 and 13 Mod roc Relief
14. Evaluation
This powerpoint is about drawing in charcoal and white chalk on black paper. Students collage a black piece of paper on their paper and then draw a part of their still-life using this technique.
The overall Learning Objectives are:
To develop my understanding of Art and pre-modern art and the meaning of a Still-life drawing.
To develop my observational drawing skills.
To create a Still-life drawing learning to draw carefully from observation with a viewfinder
To learn how to compose a composition using the rule of thirds and developing an understanding of the Golden Mean AND COMPOSITION PRINCIPLES
To develop a further understanding of Pop Art and do a flat colour paper shape detail in your drawing.
To develop my knowledge of the elements of art: lines, shape and form
To develop techniques in different media in my drawing and to explore markmaking of pen, pencil, oil pastel and charcoal.
To practise my observational drawing skills in the following techniques: oil pastel, drawing with a bro pen, using chalk and charcoal
To develop my knowledge of Robert Raushenberg (Pop Art) and practise drawing over a light printed surface with pencil.
To explore developing a relief surface of an area of my still -life drawing and develop this in mod roc technique
This is the final part of a series of Still-life lessons where students do drawings in different techniques and then make a mod-roc outcome.
In this powerpoint the students go to a computer room and do a presentation on the artist LOUISE NEVELSON and then make a mod-roc outcome. Steps are showing how to make the mod-roc relief and criteria for success with this medium.
Students then evaluate their mod-roc outcome by doing a tonal drawing of this and reflect on the outcome
Computer room research: Louise Nevelson - students write and answer the questions and resource information on this artist.
After making the mod-roc students evaluate their mod-roc outcome and do a drawing of your outcome and as a group discuss how they will as a group present their own work like Louise Nevelson.
Learning Objectives:
To explore developing a relief surface of an area of my still -life drawing and develop this in mod roc technique
To build a mod –roc outcome looking at relief techniques
To in a group build your Modroc into a standing tower with the rest of the group.
Do a study of the artist Louise Nevelson and present her work by doing an artist study of her work.
Complete the project by doing an evaluation of their mod-roc relief sculpture and do a pencil drawing of this
Attached are three powerpoints for developing a KS3 Collage in Fabric on the 12 Days of Xmas and the artist Aminah Robinson.
Students use the ‘resources’ powerpoint to draw ideas to make up their own design for the 12 days of Xmas.
Class divided and each child gets a different day to design.
I used Black velvet fabric as my backing fabric and each time the student did their drawing I traced this onto different coloured fabric shapes and students then cut this out and pritt sticked this onto the black velvet fabric.
see powerpoint of song '12 days of xmas ’ for resources
see powerpoint Artist interpretation and learning about different fabric artists.
see powerpoint on stitchung techniques
Thirdly, students then cut their designs out in fabric - I used transfer receipt like paper so students could trace onto the fabric and then cut out.
Finally students then embellish their fabric with different stitches and I have a powerpoint with video links on how to do the different stitches: running stitch, blanket stitch, satin stitch, chain stitch and daisy stitch…
year 7
Diagnostic for year 7
Celtic letters
Paper mache plants
Clay Gargoyles
year 8
Cubism
Making Insects - paper craft
Modern Movements - collage and paint
Surrealism - painting project
This tasks help to assess abilities and specific skills in Art. This helps to establish a Baseline Assessment for Art after having completed all these exercises. This should take 10-12 lessons. Please work through each exercise carefully.
The aim of this diagnostic assessment is to look at specific skills used in art.
This diagnostic study is to try to assess different skills in Art. The tasks given are for the different learning/skills in art and it allows the pupils to explore these. There are tasks given for each area of learning.
Areas of learning with task:
ILLUSIONISTIC learner: draw illusionistically, blind drawing and upside down drawing exercises.
CARTOGRAPHIC learner: draw a personal logo (black and white pattern)(use on art books as a name tag).
TACTILE learner: Looking at Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Chris Ofili and Hundertwasser’ portrait works, their use of lines, shapes, colours and textures. Pupils will choose one of these artists to develop in a tactile way using re-cycled materials.
SPATIAL learner: drawing with wire and string, assess whether good at sculptural form.
Furthermore, assess the students ability to write ANALYTICALLY and to critically analyse a painting… The pupils will also need to self assess and evaluate their outcomes.
At the end of this exercise we would be able to assess pupils strengths and weaknesses in art at KS 3 and there are many opportunities in the presentation for evaluation.
How to create an illusionistic space and to draw from first hand observation using blind drawing skills, contour line drawing, upside-down drawing and mark-making.
Focus on how to shade using dark and light tones with pencil and biro pens and focus on mark-making.
3 a To critically analyse other artist’s styles and techniques and select and question critically, making reasoned choices when developing work from observation.
3 b. Explore tactile qualities and select a range of materials to interpret a style of an artist. Develop a portrait using tactile materials.
Investigate how to express ideas using design skills and design processes and the formal elements like line, colour and flat shapes with patterns
Exploring drawing with a 3D structure and looking at shape and line with construction of wire developing spatial recognition.
Analysing an artwork and investigating the formal elements used in an artwork.
Reflect on and evaluate one’s own and others’ work, adapting and refining the outcomes.
Presentation should also be assessed at the end of these exercises. Students should also always write a heading and the lesson objective clearly at the top of each page. There are clear evaluation sheets and assessment opportunities in the unit of work.
All tasks are presented with Lesson Objective and clear practical tasks.
A detailed set of slides showing the basic elements of art used in Art. Exploring what is a point, line and shape and giving colour theory. This is a supportive project for a Foundation course, Year 12 students to develop a deeper understanding of the principles and elements of Art.
Students make a cupcake in each of the modern movement styles and make a cake stand at the end of the project. This is a set of powerpoints for each movern movement, Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism and Realism. It is a set of 8 lessons and then there is the Scheme of Work for the project.
For each of the movements students learn a different technique:
Surrealism- Splash Chance watercolour imaginary creature out of this to add to cupcake.
Cubism - geometrical shapes to shade light to dark to create angular cupcake over a collage made of newspaper. Realism - Tonal realistic shading to capture 3D form.
Expressionism-Black and white polyprint to capture the agitated marks of artists. Neo-Impressionism - using a stippling technique with paintbrush to capture fine mark-making.
Fauvism- random use of arbitrary colour to capture the bright spontaneity of paint marks.
At the end of the project students then choose a party theme and independently decorate their party plate with the cupcakes on this.
These tasks relate to understanding the key building bricks in Art: Elements of Art and the principles of design and should give you 12 weeks of tasks for students to make two booklets.
Making a booklet on the elements of art and then one on the principles of design.
Understanding these key terms helps in enabling students to write about art and if this is completed at Key Stage 3 can be a real help at GCSE and A-level
The song In A Gadda Da Vida inspired an exhibition of work at the Tate Gallery. This powerpoint just highlights the work at the gallery and gives examples of the Garden of Eden by different artists. There is also a link to a You Tube clip of the original song.
German Art Historian, Heinrich Wolfflin in his “PRINCIPLES OF ART” (1915) isolated five opposing factors which he defined as the difference between
High Renaissance and the Baroque style. This can further relate to the contrasts in MODERN ART MOVEMENTS
There are the 5 main ways of interpreting forms with examples of the work of Heinrich Wolfflin that is:
1. painterly, linear,
2. closed, open,
3. planes and recession,
4. multiplicity, unity,
5. clearness and unclearness.
Wolfflin supports a theory on ways of analysing a painting and examples of style which he formulated between the Renaissance and Baroque style and this gives a good interpretation of the differences in ways of depicting a subject.
In the slide presentation examples are chosen to show the differences in style and hopefully students begin to understand the terminology used and begin to look at the ways different works are composed.
The styles of Wolfflin also link to modern art movements like for example, painterly characterizes the work of Pierre Bonnard, Francis Bacon, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt or Renoir.
Linear characterizes the work of Vermeer or Ingres.
The Impressionists and the Abstract Expressionists tended strongly to be "painterly”, while movements such as Pop Art or photo-realism emphasize flatness and could be referred to more as linear.
This also helps A-level students find their particular strengths and to make them reflect on what particular style they enjoy doing in their own work and gives them an excellent sense of vocabulary to use when analysing artworks and gives them an understanding of using art vocabulary when critically analysing their own and artist’s work.
Students after reviewing the following slides on Wolfflin’s theory and discussing what the differences are in style begin to formulate their own essay on style using 2 artworks of your choice.
TASK: Write an essay on two different artworks and analyse the composition and structure of the artwork in relation to the theories of style of Wolfflin. Begin to not only discuss the visual appearance of the subjects but try to relate this to the influences and background of the particular artists you choose.
This is a source to show students various art styles and examples of artists who do interesting portraits.
It starts with Frida Kahlo and then goes through all the important portrait artists like Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Van Gogh, Picasso and then takes through a number of other artists with interesting styles, Hundertwasser, Gary Hume, Chila Burman, Sonya Boyce, Leger, Picabia, Dali and much more.
To be used as presentation to introduce students to artists who paint portraits in different styles.
Could be printed out as laminated sheets for students to see different portraits.
A mandala drawing - showing basic steps - to build a patterned line drawing.
In this task the students are asked to draw 4 rings using any object they have at home to make the circular rings.
Students are then given clear instructions on how to break up the circle and are given examples of patterns to follow.
There is also a very good video clip which gives clear guidelines.
At the end of the making of the Mandala students are asked to do research into the Mandala and to find out what makes up a mandala. There are questions for students to answer.
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.
This is part of the self-identity project. Students firstly do a mindmap questioning and finding out about their own personal identity.
Students then do a monoprint and then use cultural images to collage into their monoprint portrait.
Then after this there is an extension to this project where students use Chila Burman and draw out a large body and in a group collage into this using tattoo patterns and symbols.
The Learning Objectives for this task is:
To develop into monoprinting cultural symbols and patterns.
Brief study of Chila Burman and looking at her collage work.
Cultural awareness of our differences and create interesting patterns and textures and symbols of our culture.
Understanding of different styles
Looking at a brief understaning of Tattoo art.
Appreciation of own patterns and self-identity
Collaging: Photographs of everyday items, patterns, favourite clothes, pictures of household items, objects that show own culture and self-identity
This links to Modern movement project and has activities for starters and a list of activities to take place weekly.
It has a Glossary with it for the project.
it has an evaluation for project.
Also resources for students to understand the movements.
There is a separate bundle for the whole project- with all the schemes for each movement with starter activities.
But, the outcomes are successful and students enjoy learning about the art movements and making cup-cakes in the various art styles.
WEEKLY
1 Discuss Art themes
2 Realistic drawing of a cup-cake and shading skills in book
3 Pop Art – To make a 2D relief cup cake using paper cut shapes
4 To draw a cake/biscuit e using the Cubism Collage and capturing geometric shapes light to dark
5 Continuation of drawing of biscuit/cake but doing this in Paint now and capture bright colours- Fauvism
6 Expressionism Doing a polyprint of cup-cake drawing in print and rolling ink
7Doing a Neo-impressionist cake drawing
8 and 9 Surrealism outcome –adding magical creature to cake
Presentation of cupcake stands
Evaluation of project
This is a project where Students interpret one object into different Modern movement styles. This is the style of Cubism when they do a cupcake in the style of Cubism and so learn about the art movement.
Learning Objective:
To develop a cup cake in the Cubism style
using a collage technique
To develop a drawing that shows geometric shapes and shading from light to dark in the shapes
This powerpoint gives you steps to follow for this lesson in class.
Students shade in geometric shapes over a newspaper collage - drawing their cup-cake in a geometric way.
Overall in the project.
Copying a detail from each Modern movement
Collecting a picture of each Modern movement
To understand some key words to describe each modern movements
To understand the key elements in Art: Line, Shape, Colour, Texture, Space
To develop an understanding of the work of Joan Miro by looking at the example ‘The Harlequin Carnival’ and describing what you see.
To draw out a cupcake consolidating what you learnt in class in pencil.
To make a magical creature out of a splash of coffee.
To trace this and to colour this in as best you can.
To then paste your magical creature on the cupcake drawing and to creatively colour this in.
To evaluate your outcome.
To take a photograph of your sheet of A4 paper and to upload this to the Shared drive X.
Task 1
Write for a Heading ‘Surrealism’ on A4 paper Look at the picture by Joan Miro on the right called: ‘ The Harlequin’s Carnival’. This is a typical Surrealist picture.
Describe this work on the paper, describe what you see in one sentence. Write 2 or 3 lines on your paper about this painting using descriptive words.
Task 2
On the piece of A4 paper carefully draw a cup cake. Size about the normal size of a cake place this at the bottom of the A4 paper
Follow the steps on this slide to help you to draw one cupcake.
Draw this lightly with pencil like the examples given on the right.
Task 3
Make a very little coffee, some black coffee in a cup. Wait for this to cool before using this. (You can make the coffee by putting half a cup of water and mix a spoon of coffee with this.)
Splash strong cold coffee on another piece of paper – ( not the drawing paper of cupcake)
When the coffee splash is dry draw in and around this splash in pencil and make a fantasy random magical creature like the examples on this slide and the next three slides
Task 4
Once you have your coffee splash and have drawn around this.
Try to copy this out again, that is, put a piece of white paper over the splash you can use your window light to help you trace it
Colour the tracing in.
Task 5
Cut this out. You have now made a magical creature!
You could outline this darkly with your pencil.
This is the style of Joan Miro –who uses flat shapes. You now need to colour in with flat colour shapes (that is, no shading!) . See examples. You can use pencil crayons and felt tips if you have. If you do not have this just use your pencil to colour this in.
Paste this on your cupcake
Decorate your cupcake creatively with magical creatures.
Task 6
Creatively finish colouring in your cupcake as best you can. You can collage – stick coloured papers and decorate.
Paste this on your A4 sheet with task 1.
Complete a short evaluation. Write next to your cupcake artwork. Telling me what went well and about any issues you had.
Take a photo of your A4 page work.
Save this giving the jpg. your name
Upload this to the Remote Learning Work load.
You will find your class with your name.
Upload this to your name please
The Powerpoint is a short set of 4 slides which gives the students 4 exercises to copy straight symbols and elements in the work of Hundertwasser. There are clear instructions for each task and printable slides for teachers to print off or merely to use on a screen in front and to copy onto A4 paper.
I have also attached the lesson plan - so there are clear instructions so students can even learn remotely.