An interactive power point, accompanying writing frame and hand-out to support the analysis of “Big Self Portrait” by Chuck Close. The activity breaks the analysis into the four steps: description, analysis, interpretation and judgment in a whole class oracy task ( could be printed for individuals). This supports students in thinking about and applying a comprehensive criticism of a work of art that can also be applied to other artists and their own work. There is also a slide on art criticism and employability, and a comprehensive writing frame that can be bought separately from my shop. N.B The image is licensed

Easy for students to follow, “Writing about an Artist, designer or photographer”, is a comprehensive writing-frame for key-stage 3/4 that uses the 4-steps of art criticism: Description, Analysis, Interpretation and Judgment to structure and encourage an in-depth analysis and reflection of an artist’s work. Divided into sections with sentence starters. This includes a separate student friendly 4-step explanation guide.

A student friendly writing frame and accompanying explanation that uses the Four-Steps of Art Criticism: Description, Analysis, Interpretation and Judgment to encourage students to consider, analyse and reflect on their art, design or photography work. This can be used to build skills at KS3 and go on to be used for GCSE assessment objective requirements.

9 comprehensive printable and editable glossaries: ceramics, digital art, dry point etching, mono printing, drawing, painting, relief printing, sculpture and textiles. Presented in a powerpoint and ready to print to hand-out to students. Designed as an introduction to specialism at KS3/4.