-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 get your students exploring the theme of BEGINNING/END and creating extraordinary collages while earning marks for Assessment Objective 1. -Instructions for how to use collage as an artistic process -Explanation of what COLLAGE is and tricks on how to use it effectively. -Examples of artists who use collage as a medium -Examples of GCSE student collages

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

One of my favourite lessons to teach. Now your students can enjoy it too! Featuring differentiated resources and a skill-building handout ready to print. Everything you need for a dynamite lesson all included in this ppt. Just add fineliners… and students. -Empower your students by teaching them how to skilfully use the ink wash technique against success criteria -Learn about the dark art of Goya and Redon and link to Beginning/and/or End -3 ready-to-print skill worksheets offering different levels of challenge -Includes a variety of Goya and Redon images for students to work from -Differentiated with key art vocabulary in 8 different languages -Reflection plenary questions to deepen learning and self-evaluate

-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!

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.

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!

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.

A variety of warm-ups & observational drawing tasks.

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

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

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