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 project can be used for the AQA GCSE Fine Art "Human Being " exam unit.
This is a project I delivered a couple of years ago to my BTEC L3 Art and Design students. I was inspired to create and deliver a project that empowered my students and gave them the opportunity to create their own visual narratives on a theme that is sensitive to most (especially young people), and extremely relevant today - Body Image. This brief is suitable for, and links to the AQA Fine Art “Human Beings” title.
This is a project that requires the teacher to be sensitive to young people’s views, thoughts and personal experiences. I would recommend that you deliver this knowing you have good relationships with your students and that you are open to tackling difficult topics with care.
This resource is a great way to help you get started with the theme if you are stuck for ideas.
Body Image project brief - powerpoint. Including artists to research, social, economic, cultural and political links, historical and current day views on the theme, and exemplar work by past students.
Visual mindmap, a questionnaire for students to start considering their own personal views on body image- pdf.
This is a worksheet focused on analysing “A Song for Travellers” by Robert Pruitt. It guides students to think about how to research and analyse a work of art by asking the right questions.
This work of art, compliments the exam theme perfectly and includes symbolism, as well as contextual references.
Included: Exemplar work by a student in 2024
PDF document- Can print up to A3
Included: Translations in French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese using Google translate.
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This is an informative poster on the history of colour theory.
This can be printed A3/A2 as a class display or as a smaller print out/handout for students sketchbooks.
It explains the origin of colour theory and who created the traditional and CMYK colour wheels.
A simple worksheet for students to practice mixing colours and create their own colour wheel. This worksheet also asks them a set of questions to assess their knowledge on colour schemes.
This can be printed A4, A3 and is a lovely page to put in their sketchbooks.
I have printed this on thin cartridge paper, allowing students to paint using acrylic paints.
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This is a quick and easy way to teach and meet healthy and safety requirements when using knives in the art room.
Page 1. A visual worksheet questionnaire for students to identify safe and unsafe practice.
Page 2. Answers with explanations- for teachers.
Page 3. Answer page for students to fill in.
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4 posters on questioning in Art.
This can be used in lessons or as classroom displays to remind students of questions they should be asking themselves when researching or producing their own work.
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 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 is an introductory worksheet on the Formal Visual Elements.
It defines what this means, and asks students to identify what these elements are.
Answers are available for teachers and an extension task with exemplar material is also available for teachers to deliver in lesson.
Students can go on to use the template provided to create examples of the formal visual elements. An example is available for clarity.
There are two copies available - one with the US spelling of color.
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