A project for KS3 possible Year 8 looking at Surrealism and the ‘psycho-automatism’ of the artists. Students develop a FANTASY LANDSCAPE for their own paintings out of ink blobs dropped onto their paper and out of random scribbles. Students learn to use these abstract shapes creatively in a composition and are able to thus learn how to shade with paint from light to dark to create a 3D effect of form. The emphasis is on getting students to understand what is chiaro=scuro through the light and dark modelling of abstract shapes. The abstract shapes help them understand that there is no wrong and helps them focus on getting the 3D modelling right. The students need to make a wash for a background with watercolour - using perhaps a sponge. The emphasis is on creating a sense of space with a horizon line and students have to compose their blob/scribble shapes in this infinite space to create a sense of depth on a flat surface. Students need to repeat the shapes and arrange them in different sizes. Students also need to create a sense of interest in the painting. Their surreal shapes are repeated and they are able to change the scale of their forms to develop their fantasy landscape. The second task is to do a black and white pen drawing of their painting, this develops mark-making skills and patterning. This is also a technical exercise where students have to then transform their painting into a black and white pen rendering. This powerpoint has examples of student’s work which helps to support the development of these activities.

Exercises, activities to develop an understanding of shape and a wide variety of tasks to experiment with the dynamics of shape. Looking at energy points, different typeface shapes, negative and positive shapes, symmetry patterns, repeat patterns, NOTAN, designing with geometric and organic shapes, drawing shapes to different smells, using music to capture shapes, looking at the meaning of words to capture shapes and the play with tangram shapes. This can be used with A-level students to inspire, GCSE students for starters and Key Stage 3 to develop a foundation knowledge of the basic element ‘shape’. There are also a number of different artists like David Bomberg, Joan Miro, Stuart Davis, Escher, Lisa Milroy and Henri Matisse - artists who use a simplified shape in their work and students can interpret there own ideas from these artists. There are lots of exercises and different tasks to experiment with shapes.

Used for A-level students to develop their interest in ink-wash techniques by looking at the work of Renaissance artists. History of Art - Renaissance ink wash methods and outcomes. A discussion with loads of examples of their work and how they formed their compositions and developed their drawings. Also how to make home inks.

There are two tasks ; Making your name with zentangle patterns- there are student outcomes and sheets to support this activity. Students to work in groups making a letter to put together into a word. making a large cardboard letter and use paper craft- ~coiling and quilling to embellish Learning objective Students Learn to do lettering and patterns and to make a 3D constuction of letters Students learn to do block lettering : Every letter should be 3 blocks across and 5 letters down. The only letters that are different are M which is 4 across and 5 down and W is 5 across and 5 down. Learning to coil with paper craft students each develop their own letter working in a group. Students to choose one word in a group and to draw the letters of the word out BIG on cardboard Students Practice drawing out boldly own name using the block lettering sheets provided to support. Resources maths block paper cereal box felt tips glossy magazines pritt stick glue

This is a project where students are asked to choose an artist to study their style. Student’s question and develop an understanding of What is a style? Outcome of this project is that students in year 7 do their own portrait interpretation using the artists and create a mixed media collage based on the selected artist. There is an exploration on using a variety of media. Students develop their own skills exploring how to make their own portrait in the style of the artist. Students use a photocopy of a photograph of themselves to work from. There is an emphasis on experimentation and students can bring in found textures to collage. Students use the four artists to make a copy of the four artists styles in a grid on a page: Hundertwasser, Klimt, Ofili and Van Gogh. TASK 1 The first part of the project is the Artist Research in 4 grids. One for each artist. Students in the grid discuss the characteristics of each artist’s use of line, colour, shape and texture. There is an individual slide on each artist which highlights with close up pictures showing the markmaking of each artist. Teacher to go through each slide of each artist and copy the pictures as an example for students to work from. Students write out the name in each gird, how each artist has a different way of using their marks and then in the grid copies a detail of the artist’s work. This is completed in pencil crayons. Students can also use an object and interpret this in styles - there is an example Students also brainstorm words to describe the artist. Students also describes the use of elements in each work. Students also discuss the main characteristics of the artist and how they have used their line, colour, shape, texture and how the artist has composed the picture (that is, put it together). This should take 2 lessons - with students completing the work for homework TASK 2 Once students have analysed this they can go on to make their own portrait by choosing one of the artists. There are lots of examples of students work in this powerpoint to give examples of how to go about this project. Students to be given a photocopy picture of themselves to work from This should take 3 lessons in class. Objectives: Use of found textures, collage materials and paint to interpret a style looking at the way the student experimented with the use of materials to create the style Explore media creatively when interpreting artist. Develop vocabulary and to understand the different ways of using lines, shapes and colours and students begin to analyse the artworks critically describing each work. To begin to understand that each artist has their own way of interpreting their subject and each person has the own way of making their own style To analyse and interpret four different artist’s styles and begin to make a personal response to one of these artists. To complete a self- portrait in the style of an artist.

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.

Firstly consolidating watercolour skills in this project the powerpoint then goes to look at the artist called Hundertwasser. Looking in depth at Hundertwasser, developing an Artist Study presentation after going to the computer room to find information on this artist and to analyse one picture of his work. Students are then asked to on four separate sheets to draw out the key symbols and elements in Hundertwasser’s work. . Students are then given pictures of buildings and asked to continue to apply his style and to make some drawings inspired by his work. Examples of all these are given with student examples. This project then further developed into making a clay tile after formulating an orignal own interpretation of Hundertwasser. There are plenty of student examples for you to look at. I have also added further extension tasks on Hundertwasser and some further interesting facts about his work. OBJECTIVES To develop an understanding of the work of Hundertwasser by studying the elements from Hundertwasser’s work. To copy some of Hundertwasser’s symbols with your pencil. To draw out Hundertwasser’s Onion domes, Lollipop trees, Faces and Spirals. To draw out a large picture of Lollipop trees of Hundertwasser and to use colour on this To use pictures of buildings and then to imaginatively interpret one’s own version of Hundertwasser using the research ideas completed into his use of symbols Students make up their own design of Hundertwasser in pencil and then in colour. To make a clay tile based on the design steps above- examples of student outcomes are given. Task 1 ‘Key Elements in the Art of Hundertwasser’ Copy out the picture given on slide 3 and label the key elements Hundertwasser uses in his work. You may use any materials you have to do this. It can be in colour or black and white with your pencil. Do this carefully.

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.

In this powerpoint there is cultural information on the symbolism of the peacock in Indian Art and a look at the peacock dance. Students make a peacock feather drawing looking at a few essential oil pastel techniques: sgrafitto, layering, blending, stippling. Students then are asked to evaluate this outcome and then as a whole class the second project on the powerpoint is that each student is now asked to make a peacock feather which could then be added to a drawing of the body of the peacock. Resources given to support this.This could be completed in any medium, pen work or watercolour or oil pastel. There are examples of different large peacock outcomes in different media and the teacher will need to decide how she would like to do this.

This is for your Year 10 GCSE group and gives a summary of the GCSE course in two sheets. It is a very helpful sheet summarising each objective and the requirements and the amount of pages that are needed in your sketchbook. There is also the writing framework required for artist analysis - objective one. There is also a brief outline of the principles of design and what students need to look for. Also there are helpful questions to help students evaluate their outcomes. A must for GCSE Art and Design!!

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.

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.

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

Words for Art and terms used for portraits.

A short glossary list of words and students to choose the correct answers. These can be printed and cut up so students could match the correct term.

A set of words to print out for display in the Art classroom. Elements of Art and Principles of Design.