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 key stage 3 project where students do a polyprint on fabric using printing inks. This is a short 6 week project but could be developed to incorporate embellishments and sewing skills to fabric. I did this with year 8 and it took 6 weeks. Student enjoyed the outcome and it could have been made into a cushion for each student but we made a class fabric wall hanging. (There is a second Powerpoint in a Bundle which has all the pictures used for students to work from - A-Z of nature pictures)
Artists used: Angie Mitchell and Ernst Haeckel
Resources required
Polyprint blocks
Printing ink
Rollers
Tables to roll out on
Fabric square per child
Paper for test prints
Research sheet for drawings and artist research.
Project schedule 6 weeks
The resources for the students to work from. Each student chooses what they would like to draw.
The steps to take while making the print and examples of student’s outcome.
Students begin by researching Angie Mitchell and Ernst Haeckel and make up a sheet with these two artists and their drawings. The drawings they do of one of the pictures of the slide pictures of animals and bits of nature from A-Z. Students choose which animal or fish or plant they would like to draw. Students spend time doing a detailed drawing and design a border pattern for this work in black and white.
Success criteria of drawings
To use fine lines and to capture quality detail
To concentrate on negative and positive shapes
To develop a border pattern from nature around the drawing
To try to layer up your drawing with foreground and background shapes
The students drawings are then photo-copied and transferred to the polyprint block. Students use the photocopy to press through onto polyboard. The students are given a square and a strip of polyprintboard . Students first of all experiment printing on paper with their design and border. Students can do a black and white print or do a polyprint print of two colours overlaying their inks.
The slide presentation gives you also opportunities for reflection and evaluation of outcome at the end.
I have presented my artists in my book
I have compared the works of 2 nature artists
I have written a short paragraph on the style of artists
I have a careful line drawing of my subject
I have created my own artwork based on my research of subject colour
I have a plan for my print design and have written about relief printing
I have tested working with polyprints
Student outcome is a wall-hanging and we sewed all the students outcomes together to make a fabric collage of squares.
Aim to make a small A5 booklet ‘A Beastie Booklet’ and to draw various gargoyles in different techniques and to evaluate their pages.
Aim to make a sculpture in clay of one of the their beastie designs.
The powerpoint also allows students to look at Monster inc and Lisandro Demarchi and to design their own creative beastie or medieval creature.
The powerpoint gives you lots of pictures of gargoyles and examples of student work and refers to different techniques students can do. It also gives a list what should be in the booklet.
There is also an instruction sheet with video links to make a clay pinch pot and how to join this to make animal shapes.
Finally there are examples of students display of their sculptures and booklets.
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.
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.
This is part of a set 5 powerpoints on Cubism, painting skills and colour mixing and constructing a 3D sculpture.
This attached Powerpoint deals with the development of the 3D sculpture
Powerpoint 1
Using a drawing of face break this up into geometric shapes and compose an outcome to paint and analyse a cubist analytical painting and develop and understanding of Cubism
Powerpoint 2
Explore a mixing of colours, especially complementary colours and develop an understanding of contrasting colours
Powerpoint 3
Practice painting skills and applying paint smoothly
Powerpoint 4. Painting skills using a card
Poweerpoint 5.
Simplify and construct a 3D analytical sculpture from your painting and evaluate your putcome.
The powerpoint gives instructions and examples to show how to cut and join this. Firstly pasting on cardboard a copy of the painting and then cutting this up in shapes and building a construction of form as a 3D sculpture
This then becomes a construction of a 3D sculpture using cardboard to make a mobile or standing sculpture based on Cubism.
To paste painting onto Cardboard Ceareal box and to paint the back of the box
To finally construct with glue gun to form a hanging mobile.
Evaluation of project
This is a series of 5 powerpoints where students to learn to paint a Cubist painting using a celebrity picture and complementary colours.
Students to gain an understanding of Analytical Cubism and how to fragment a picture into geometric shapes and then learn to paint it in complementary colours.
Develop this into a 3D sculpture and make a construction mobile cutting a copy of the painting into shapes.
This is lesson 4 in the portrait project.
Students firstly do a pencil shading of their face using the grid technique and learn how to draw different parts of the face carefully.
Secondly students do a monoprint and this is in lesson 2 portrait project and they use their photograph to trace off into the ink to make the monopring.
Thirdly students then collage into the monoprint and use Paolozzi as an artist and collage into the monoprint.
In this powerpoint the student use one of their photographs and draw into the photocopy. Students look at the artist Chila Burman and look at the way she interprets her Asian and British identity. Students need to think about their own identity and the way they are going to collage into their own photo-copy.
Students use felt tips and draw into the photocopies making patterns and try to interpret cultural patterns in bright colours.
Your Learning Objective was:
To study an example of CHILA BURMAN n your book and describe what you see
Students to find out about CHILA BURMAN and begin to understand her Asian and British identity.
Students to use their photograph and develop the bright colours and cultural identity in the portrait.
To use cultural patterns and to create a self identity photo portrait.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Cultural awareness of our differences
Understanding of different styles and using digital photography creatively with patterns
Appreciation of own patterns and self-identity
Collaging: Photographs of everyday items, patterns, favourite clothes, magazine text, Newspaper highlights, paint textures and close up of photos of household items: objects that show own culture and self-identity
**What are the Learning Objectives for this project in Art? **
Students learn from examples and a clear understanding to totem poles is explained visually in slides, also different video clips about Totem poles and their story telling. There are slides which give a background to totem poles. Lots of symbols for different animals given on separate slides which could be used ot make the totem pole.
Students through the research into totem poles will gain an appreciation of how religion and spirituality holds in Native American cultures.
Students will be able to communicate experiences, moods, and stories and reflect on their own family history and family tree in a group project.
Students to create images using the elements and principles and design their totem imaginatively.
Using pictures of animals - students can stylise and create a symmetry outcome to use in the building of their animal/sun/bird/man for their totem pole.
Each student completes a different part of the totem pole and students need to work in teams
Students create images in response to objects from a variety of cultural contexts as students look at and watch various ‘You Tube’ video links about the Totem pole story telling.
Students demonstrate awareness of Pacific Coast heritage
The slides give a sequence of classroom activities leading to the making of a cardboard totem pole.
Students use recycled materials and build their animal/bird/sun/man they designed.
There is an emphasis on coloured paper and pasting this into the cardboard and building up the structure.
Students will complete the following:
**Teamwork: **Complete a group totem pole.
Graphic Design: Design a group/tribe logo.
Independent Research: Interview a Family member and research family history
3D Sculpture Design: Design a totem sculpture that represents your family history in 100 years time.
Recycling materials: Students use recycled materials and construct a standing Totem.
Students can embellish and decorate their totem with coloured paper cut outs and black pen line work.
**Self -Identity portrait project. **
This is lesson 1 where students take their own photo and then start to do a drawing of parts of the face. There are examples of face details and then there is an example of how to scale this up. There is a homework biro drawing task.
(In the Bundle there are other lessons to follow up on this drawing of task, where students have to interpret their face in various artist styles and culturally interpret their own identity. )
Lesson objectives
Objectives
To draw the proportions of the face in your book
To do a photo-shoot and take a photo to use for your portrait drawing where you scale up this picture.
To consolidate how to draw parts of the face.
To do a pencil tonal value
To practise mark-making with a pen
Through out the whole scheme the project
**success criterias **are:
To learn about the proportions of the face
To practise drawing various parts of the face
To draw a portrait drawing using the grid technique
To look at various examples of portrait drawings
To develop a tonal grid and to understand the light and dark planes in a face.
To understand how to do a grid drawing
Looking at the work of Cindy Sherman in depth with all her major themes and developing one’s own photo-shoot and selfie and a history portrait
Cindy Sherman and her photographs and how she captures gender and stereotypical poses, Alter-ego images, Self-identity figures, Bus riders,
examples of History portraits, Film Stills, grotesque portraits and her Clown images.
There are 11 questions to answer on her work and students should look through the slides and answer the questions analysing her work.
Discussing what makes a gender? What are stereotypes?
The pictures show how Cindy changes her identity showing how we make our own identity and we are not born with it.
There are lots of examples of photographs by Cindy to inspire Year 9/10 and A-level students to question their identity and what makes an identity.
Students should
1 Set up a scene and capture a stereotypical identity they would like to capture or
2 Transform their image completely and to take on a new identity or
3 Capture themselves as they see themselves with all their own interests.
4 Develop a History portrait based on examples of Cindy Sherman.
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.
Describe what type of lines, shapes, space, colour and textures do you see in the work. Try to add one word to the element ……………
For example: Wobbly Lines, Dark Colours, Rough Texture, Mathematical shapes
Wide Space
‘We are learning to develop your written work looking at a work of Michael Craig Martin
We are learning to make a presentation of this in a powerpoint:
We are learning to show slides which should include: Artist name, and pictures of his work,
We are learning to write an analysis using questions on our slides
We are learning to make our own response to the work using pencils, pencil crayons and felt tips
We are learning to reflect on the work of Michael Craig Martin and how he has used still-life.’
Research
On the internet students find examples of the work of
Michael Craig Martin
Choose two images by this artist, one you like and one you do not like.
Students answer the following questions and display visually:
'Why do you like the first image?
Why do you not like the second image?
What bit in each photo do you look at first?"
Students Choose one image to analyze and to use as the basis for their own drawing – the one students are asked to copy. Students evaluate:
“What do you like about this artwork?
Which section do you look at first?
How are you going to copy this artwork (remember its your own version it, not a perfect copy)”
Plan the layout of your page first in pencil, carefully. Presentation is VERY important!
Title: ‘Line, Shape & Colour – Michael Craig-Martin.
Decorate your page.
Next copy one of Craig-Martin’s paintings using colouring pencils.Stufents ask the following questions:
What are your most favourite objects?
What objects do you use all the time?
Are there any objects that you can not do without?
Think carefully about these questions and find 4 images of objects on the internet
You may using the internet or take you own photos.
Try out different viewpoints, fill the photo with the object and photograph on a plain background.
We are going to try to trace off the screen or draw objects with a pencil from the screen
Why do we look at things in certain ways?
How can we make objects look interesting?
Can you guess the objects photographed from different angles?
Divide your page into four sections.
Title: Line, Shape and Form/Overlapping and Composition
Now in each box you are to draw in pencil the outline only of your favourite objects. Try to draw the object four times, once in each block and try to draw a different viewpoint each time
Remember to………….
keep the lines neat and clean.
look carefully at the shape and form of each object.
fill each box with the 4 objects and presentation is important.
4. layout and the way you overlap should be different in each block
Find objects at home to use in your Michael Craig Margin
Interpretation or objects on the internet to copy from
Take at least 4-6 objects and try to combine them together
Plan out a rough sketch first………. See example
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.
These are important skills for Key Stage 3
There powerpoints aim to develop the following skills below and in so doing develop confidence in drawing
Line exercises with blind, contour, gestural drawing skills
Upside down drawing -how to copy
Sphere drawing - teaching tonal drawing
Drawing to create an impact with pattern and different techniques - feather drawing
Portrait drawing - looking at proportions in a face drawing
Fun- confident line combining a photo in drawing
A group of different A-level Art projects and tasks to develop
Information to absorb about Art - On Style and Principles and Elements
Examples of student work
Drawing exercises linked to contextual skills
Good for introduction to course.
Academic theorists to use like John Berger and H Wolfflin to encourage discussion and a deeper understanding.
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.
This is a lesson for self identity project after students complete the scaling up of their face in pencil.
Using a photocopy students then do a mono-print of their face and later interpret this into an artist style.
There are also some links to You tube clips of different ways to do the mono-print.
To do a set of three monoprints using one’s photograph to draw with
To do 1. a line drawing of one’s portrait carefully following the detail of portrait. Use one’s fingers to create some tonal areas
To do 2. a line drawing of ones portrait and then in the ghost print to draw into this surface and to print this
To do 3 a line drawing of a portrait but to lay a stencil on your ink block before you do the print.
This is a summary for files - a 5 min Scheme of Work to help with having all the essential information required. This is my project Modern Movements - cupcakes where students make a cupcake in various different modern art styles: Expressionism - black and white polyprint, Neo-Impressionism stippling and dots with paint or crayon, Fauvism - splash arbitrary colours and learn how to use water-colour, Realism - pencil shading accurately, Surrealism - make a magical fantasy creature like Miro to go on the cupcake. There is a Scheme of work for this unit.