Putting personality on a page! A groovy mixed-media self-portrait project that builds on/assesses a range of skills: observational drawing, composition and graffiti. I used this scheme of work with year 9, but I'm sure you could adapt it for any age.

Use this to get your students thinking about how they can explore the Edexcel theme 'FORCE&' in their Art. Enjoy!

A 26 page booklet of art activities for artists of all abilities. Designed to challenge and inspire… while developing skill, knowledge and creativity. Staying home and don’t know what to do? Now’s a great time to learn something new. Refining skills, or just for fun- Drawing is for everyone! Creativity, technique, knowledge aplenty For humans aged 4 to 120 Parents, teachers, sisters, brothers- Let me know if this is useful and I will make others.

Explore the colour wheel Explore colour value, how colours are created by mixing other colours Explore complementary colours Create our own colour wheel blending/layering markers, colouring pencils and watercolour paints

Banksy, street, Art, graffiti, lettering. Best for use as a double lesson. 0. Go through the slides with the class. 1. As a class choose one of the quotes. 2. Have each student (or pair of students) draw out one of the words in their own graffiti style. 3. Have the students put all their words together to complete the quote. 4. Hooray! Enjoy.

A variety of warm-ups & observational drawing tasks.

The next episode- this time we’re focusing on COMPOSITION. A 25 page booklet of art activities for artists of all abilities. Designed to challenge and inspire… while developing skill, knowledge and creativity. Staying home and don’t know what to do? Now’s a great time to learn something new. Refining skills, or just for fun- Drawing is for everyone! Creativity, technique, knowledge aplenty For humans aged 4 to 120 Parents, teachers, sisters, brothers- Let me know if this is useful and I will make others.

Use this resource to empower your students in using the correct vocabulary while drawing & paintings. Offers tips, techniques and questioning. Particularly helpful for SEN, EAL, LA students.

Use this Ppt. to get your year 12's thinking about the 2012 exam theme.

Use these bookmarks to build confidence in your students and celebrate high quality work. -Print out a PRIDE PIECE bookmark for each of your students. (Laminate if you wish to resuse). The idea is to allow students to reflect on their work, developping self-criticality and celebrating when they complete work to a high standard.

A simple lesson to get students drawing- hearts, lungs and mixed body parts.

Portrait painting project using coffee Includes printable differentiated skillbuilding worksheets -To work cooperatively with peers to develop the Assessment Criteria for our self-portrait painting. -To build a self-portrait toolkit, practising the Art techniques which will help us to develop more realism in our work.

Use this Ppt. to introduce the artist (designer) Nina Chakrabarti to your students and get them experimenting with portraiture and exploring the limits of mark-making. You just need black fineliner pens and some photos of faces. Enjoy!

Staying home and don’t know what to do? Now’s a great time to do something for you! Quiet, focused, relaxing fun- Colouring is for everyone! I’m always drawing in black & white, I’d like you to help me make things right. Go get your markers, pick a place to start And help me add colour to my Art….

Sugar Skulls Challenge Use your own equipment to decorate the skull template. Consider whether you want your design to symmetrical or not. Experiment with different ideas and patterns. Use colour and outline in fine liner if you have this equipment in your pencil case. Develop the space inside the skull and the background as well.

Print out to create an educational and dazzling display of key art vocabulary Improve subject-specific literacy and promote excellent oracy. Great resource to help students evaluate their own work or to research an artist.

The perfect activity to follow up on a unit on portrait drawing. Use this to have your students developing their own pattern taking inspiration from a variety of sources. Complete lesson with lesson plan & differentiation. Create a Self Portrait taking inspiration from the style of artist Kehinde Wiley. There are two parts to this artwork : Your tonal grid drawing (last 2 lessons) Your personalised background pattern (today) Key words for this project: Pattern, Portrait, Design, Shape, Identity, Personalisation, Repeat, Symmetry, Flip, Reverse, Colour Scheme, Harmonious, Monochromatic, Complimentary

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.

Use these editable Art Activity Feedback Trackers to organise the learning for each of your year groups over the course of the year. These trackers can be stuck into the inside cover of the sketchbook and allow for you to communicate regularly with students about their progress as well as enabling students to take ownership and be more independent in their art-making. Includes: -Instructions for Artist Activity -Self/Peer & Teacher Main Assessment Checkpoints -Space for the teacher to write a quick target for improvement -Formative & Summative Assessment

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!