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.
Optical Art lessons where students learn op art techniques and then create their own dazzle ships. Optical illusions.
Includes:
Content for 2 to 4 lessons
Examples
Success Criteria
Do Now Tasks
Printable worksheets
Marksheet
Keep students motivated and improving their art skills all summer long so when they come back in September they already have some high quality work for their GCSE portfolio!
Includes:
KNOWLEDGE: Learn about artist & illustrator Iain MacArthur
PRACTICE: Timed drawing tasks of different lengths & warm ups,
CHALLENGE: Mark-making and creative detailing challenge
I work in a boys school where homework doesn’t always get done. With this is mind I’ve designed this exciting, varied book of activities that will delight and challenge students while subconciously introducing them to the GCSE Art Assessment Objectives.
An entire SOW for your year 12 art students written by a Pearson Edexcel & OCR A-level Art moderator.
Download & share with your students today to get them started on producing a wide variety of high quality outcomes that develop and showcase their technical skills, personal style and analytical abilities.
Includes:
Step by step instructions & examples outcomes for students to complete the highest quality of mindmaps, moodboards & artist research
A diverse selection of artists for students to choose from
Guided instructions on how to take your own photos, present, annotate and sketch from them.
Instructions and artist links on how to created a sophisticated collage working from copies of their own photos and other collage materials to create an inspired outcome.
Guidance to produce an extended focus drawing with a choice of 7 different media & techniques.
Instructions on how to complete a final mindmap that articulate clearly the direction the personal project & outcome is going to take.
Just print out & go!
This 18 page booklet provides your A level Art students with full guidance on how to get top marks on the Personal Study essay.
Includes:
A clear format on how to sequence your writing
Instructions on how to write an essay
A breakdown of tasks into different drafts
Useful links
Word bank
Bibliography template
Written by an A level Art moderator.
-Use this resource to enable your students to analyse and evaluate their own & their peers final art outcomes for the Edexcel 2017 Beginning/End exam
-Improve the quality of writing to earn marks for Assessment Objective 3:Record & 4: Present
-S.E.M.I. Writing frame with question prompts and model answers
-Red/Amber/Green sketchbook to-do checklist
-Clear breakdown of Assessment Objective 4.
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!
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…
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 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!
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.
-Use this ppt to start your KS3 students onto a baseline drawing, working from any object. (We use this at the beginning of the year to assess ability on entry and collect a sample of existing skill).
-Succinctly explain what observational drawing is and get your students to practice the skill right away.
Featuring:
-Instructions for the activity
-6 Steps to success
-Tonal chart
Just add: Objects, pencils, paper and students.
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 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!
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.