Engaging, easy-to use, challenging, adaptable art resources for happy, busy teachers and highly productive students. Designed by a Head of Creative & Performing Arts, Head of Art and GCSE and A-level Art moderator.
Engaging, easy-to use, challenging, adaptable art resources for happy, busy teachers and highly productive students. Designed by a Head of Creative & Performing Arts, Head of Art and GCSE and A-level Art moderator.
-Use this resource to get your AS students thinking about the exam theme Structures.
-Students will explore portraiture through drawing as well as learn about portraits by notable traditional and contemporary artists.
-Students will practice their portrait-drawing skills and independently create a self-portrait working in the style of a chosen artist.
An engaging mixed-media drawing task that challenges all abilities of Art students to create Art that combines their creative and technical abilities.
This lesson offers criteria to push and effectively assess LAPS, MAPS, HAPS & G&T students.
Students will spend 2+ hours creating a piece of Art inspired by the heart.
L.O: Take creative risks to make an imaginative, detailed response to your original heart drawing using your choice of mixed media.
Teacher Prep for this lesson:
-Print out some anatomical images of a heart (I've included some photos of lamb's hearts for you to use if you wish) or borrow a heart few models from the science department.
-Get some interesting collage materials (photocopied pages of M.C. Escher's work, graffiti books work well).
-Provide a range of wet & dry media (pastels, inks, sharpies, colouring pencils etc).
-Give students a choice of sugar papers & drawing papers to work on.
Enjoy!
Everything you need in one ppt!
-Use this resource to get ALL of your year 11 students effectively researching and writing high quality Artist Study pages to earn top marks for AO1.
-Hopper is featured in the new Beginnings/End exam Edexcel paper, why not use this ppt to scaffold for your students how to do a proper artist study.
Featuring:
-A foolproof system with step by step instructions on how to analyse Hoppers’ work using SEMI
-Printable differentiated worksheets for students to answer questions and fill in the blanks
-A comprehensive and engaging introduction to Hopper’s work
-Examples of high quality GCSE research pages
-Success Criteria & Edexcel mark scheme
-Tips and tricks for top attainers
-Video clips to an analysis of Hopper’s work.
Get your students drawing animals realistically and imaginatively as well as researching relevant artists, earning marks for Assessment Objective 1, 2 & 3.
A powerpoint featuring...
-introduction to a range of different traditional and contemporary animal artists for students to choose from
-Instructions and success criteria for an observational animal drawing task
-Instructions and success criteria for an imaginative animal drawing task
-Use this resource to get students to earn marks for all Assessment Objectives and to effectively plan for their 2017 Art exam Beginning/End.
Features:
-Differentiated pathways to ensure student confidence and success in planning & producing a high quality final piece for the art exam
-Examples of high-quality outcomes
-Questions for students to evaluate where they are at with their exam-planning
-Formulas on how to achieve a high-quality outcome for different skills and tastes
-Use this resource to add purpose and build skills in any lesson where students will be drawing an object.
-Can be used as a Baseline test for year 9 and GCSE Art students.
-Includes a lesson plan outline and differentiation.
The Activity:
1. Gather a variety of objects (we use shoes, wooden mannequins, bottles, spray cans etc) and have them out on the table ready for each student.
2. Have students section an A3 paper into 4 and complete 4 separate studies of the same object progressively working from least difficulty to most challenging using: pencil, pen, ink wash technique (black fineliner with a wet paintbrush overtop) and colouring pencil.
-Use this resource to teach students how to draw using 1 & 2-point perspective
-Learn and understand key terminology
-Engage students by showing interesting perspective video clip (link included) to Julian Beever Street Artist.
Use this resource to get your students using a wide variety of marks to add energy and style to their art.
In this lesson students will...
-experiment with a wide range of expressive lines
-create art in the style of artist Nina Chakrabarti
-evaluate their own & each other's work against the assessment criteria (provided)
All you need for a fun & meaningful lesson is this powerpoint, some black pens, printed out images of faces and students.
Enjoy!
Use this ppt to inspire Art & Design students to pursue an art-related career as well as enable them to create their own gallery.
Featuring:
-Assessment Criteria for task
-Key Vocabulary
-List of Art-related careers
-Link to a video clip on 'What Does a Curator do'
Student mission: To select famous works of art to make a collection and curate an exhibition in my own imaginary art gallery.
-To present my gallery in a unique way on a page in my sketchbook
-To give my gallery a name and use an interesting lettering style to draw the title on my page
-To use the resources provided as well as researching at home to collect images of art to display in my gallery
- To include the title of each artwork and the artists name
Use this resource to empower your students and help them develop their painting skills.
Artist mission: To learn how to control a combination of wet media to create a realistic chocolate bar painting.
Includes:
-Success criteria
-Media strengths & weaknesses
-Key vocabulary
-Links to relevant artists
-Homework tasks
I used this for a 2-month A2-sized year 10 candy painting project, but it could be adapted for any length of time and any year group. My students combined acrylic, watercolour, ink and aquapencils to achieve their outcome.
The exam is just around the corner- are your students ready?
Use this resource to help make sure they are…
In a hurry and need some useful exam planning pages to print off to use immediately? 24, 35 & 41
With a focus on idea development for a final exam piece, this resource includes…
-a printable/shareable student self-checklist handout to exam success (developing metacognition and to help prepare for the exam)
-a printable/shareable ‘EVENT’ planning tutorial handout (where students or teacher records suggestions for success)
-a guide to compositional/thumbnail sketches
-a guide for successful artist research
-introduction to a range of pertinent EVENT artists to inspire students
& more…
Need a drawing Assessment quick? Print this out and you’re ready to go!
Observational drawing task, ideal for KS3.
Includes:
-Instructions
-Assessment Criteria
-Easy to mark
A handy step-by-step guide using artist JIM DINE to help your students create excellent Artist Research pages.
Includes:
-Assessment Objectives
-Examples of Artist Studies
-Animated diagram explaining how to create an Artist Research
-Template that helps students in interpreting an artwork
-Resources to support Art vocabulary
Use this resource to teach students about Ernst Haeckel, explore Biology in Art and guide your students how to produce a high quality Artist Research page.
Includes:
-Template to help students analyse art
-Examplar material with GCSE levels 1-8
-Key information and links to resources for Research
-Simple step-by-step approach to completing tasks
2 Art lessons exploring the topic of Vanitas, including…
-Analysis of ‘The Ambassadors’ Vanitas artwork by Hans Holbein the younger.
-Skull drawing practice worksheets using the observational/upside down/ grid drawings methods
-Match of the Day using Key Terminology
-Exercise where students set up their own Still life, research the symbolism of the objects and photograph it.
-Much more!
My year 9s loved it.
Teach Colour Theory properly and create a high quality outcome using Watercolour paint.
Includes:
-Slides content and printable worksheets for several lessons (6 or more)
-Introduction to relevant artists
-Success Criteria
-Colour Theory Key vocabulary
-Exemplars
Need a high quality lesson to deliver in school or set as remote learning?
This easy to use resource will have your students learning key art vocabulary, deciphering famous vanitas paintings and practising their own drawing skills using the observational, grid or upside-down techniques.
I set this for my year 9 & 10 remote learning- they loved it and asked for more!
Need a high quality lesson to deliver in school or set as remote learning?
This easy to use resource will have your students learning key art vocabulary, deciphering famous vanitas paintings and creating their own vanitas still life set up using objects from home .
I set this for my year 9 & 10 remote learning- they loved it and asked for more!
Learn about Synaesthesia and artist Kandinsky and try creating art using his neurodiverse ability.
Includes:
-Ready to print worksheet
-homework challenge
-Do Now task