With 12+ years of experience in both state and independent schools, I combine my passion for teaching with expertise in the art industries. I create high-quality resources focused on printmaking, portraiture, and graphic design to inspire and support students and fellow educators.
If you've found any of my resources helpful, I’d greatly appreciate your feedback through a review. Your support helps me continue creating useful materials for teachers everywhere!
With 12+ years of experience in both state and independent schools, I combine my passion for teaching with expertise in the art industries. I create high-quality resources focused on printmaking, portraiture, and graphic design to inspire and support students and fellow educators.
If you've found any of my resources helpful, I’d greatly appreciate your feedback through a review. Your support helps me continue creating useful materials for teachers everywhere!
This is a step by step guide/handout for teachers and students on how to draw a portrait using the grid method. This method can apply to any object, not just portraiture. I created and used this handout for my Y10 Fine Art students. It was a success and something students referred to regularly.
This technique is not as easy as it may seem, and although it is not as demanding as drawing from observation, it still challenges students to improve hand eye coordination, and teaches them a way to draw proportionately.
Example on the worksheet is a ‘painting’ I did using Photoshop.
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This bundle of resources includes an in depth 23 page Powerpoint and 3 documents to help you and your students at the beginning stages of the externally set assignment (component 2- Gathering).
A booklet that helps your students research, evaluate and analyse their own work and the work of others, as well as a clear guide on analysis focused on the formal visual elements.
This is a comprehensive body of work formatted into a printable booklet. This was created for my students to help them improve literacy in art, and work more independently.
Students are regularly asked to research, evaluate and analyse throughout their art education. This book gives students the foundations in learning to write with confidence.
You can print this as a booklet OR you may choose to print each page as and when you need it for your lessons.
Included:
How to Research and Artist/Designer.
Understanding the difference between evaluation and analysis.
How to evaluate a work of art.
How to evaluate a pencil drawing.
How to evaluate a painting.
How to evaluate a response or a copy.
How to analyse a work of art.
Sentences starters.
Words linked to art materials.
Photography annotation.
Word bank of photography technical terms.
Word bank on - Atmosphere, Texture, Form, Pattern, Line, Tone, Shape, Colour.
Notes page - for students to write in.
This resource is aimed at helping teachers and students with the beginning stages of developing ideas for the Identity project.
Suggestions on how to start the project.
Mindmaps for possible directions based on the theme.
This is an informative poster that gives a brief history on the origins of Acrylic Paint.
I created this and used in lessons as a handout.
It worked well as a starter activity/discussion point on the benefits of understanding different mediums.
This leads on to students researching the history of oil paints (classroom activity or homework) and making comparisons between these mediums - pros and cons.
This poster can be used as a class display or to be handed out to students for a lesson on how colour is used by artists to convey message and meaning as well as emotion.
Links to information presented on the poster are discreetly displayed in light grey, where information has been copied and pasted from online sources, should you wish to do some further research for your own schemes of work.
US Spelling available too
This worksheet is for students to apply their knowledge of color theory by painting/coloring in the color wheel and answering the questions below the color wheel. I have also attached the answers to the questions should you need them.
I usually ask students to use acrylics for this task.
You may want to download for free, my color theory introduction page, which teaches students the history of color Theory.
This worksheet is also part of a bundle I have created available on my profile.
