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 simple poster focused on charcoal artists that students may consider for researching, or perhaps teachers may want to use as examples of varying styles using charcoal.
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This resource includes an initial brief and worksheets on understanding pattern.
If this is something that interests you, I would be happy to add to this resource with a more in-depth scheme of work, step-by-step guides for teachers and students etc.
This is a brief I created almost ten years ago and remains a great project that covers a wide variety of areas in art craft and design. This project lends itself to students being able to display their work around the school and is an opportunity for the art department to contribute to the whole school environment.
"Understanding Pattern"
This resource teaches students about pattern structures.
Students will learn about a variety of different types of pattern and demonstrate their knowledge using the worksheets provided.
This resource includes answers for the worksheets (for teachers), as well as a lesson teachers could deliver following from the worksheets.
x5 Documents in A3 pdf format. Easily printed A4 - A2.
Included examples of past students designs printed, displayed and photographed in situ and a mindmap.
This is a brief I wrote for year 9 students last year.
The theme is transformation and it is a graphic design based project for the magazine Juxtapoz.
This includes -
Brief scenario
A list of how to start the project - for students
Example of a mind map to follow in the next few days.
This questionnaire asks students to select a work of art (from the 4 provided) and answer questions that help them learn how to analyse a work of art focusing on the formal visual elements.
Page 1. Student questionnaire.
Page 2. Basic information on each work of art and links to further information.
Page 3. Teacher aid - Full analysis of Salman Toor’s “Bar Boy”.
You may want to start this activity with a class Q&A discussion.
Using the questions on page 1 to ask directed questions on their thoughts on the piece. This page gives you answers to those questions and may ignite some new ones.
What is a personal investigation?
This document was made for students to understand the requirements of a personal investigation.
I found GCSE and A Level students found this useful as it clearly lays down the areas they will need to focus on and how to start.
Mind map
It is a starting point for a project you may want to create.
I usually start my projects with one word ideas, and then create my own mindmaps as a way to start thinking about artists I want to introduce to students and then consider possible subthemes to that topic.
This usually helps me then write a brief and a scheme of work.
I just found this old mindmap on a project I didn’t deliver but it’s a nice visual starting point for anyone looking for ideas.
Creating project themes from scratch can be time consuming, and so I intend to share more of these briefs that I have created in the last 12 years.
This brief focuses on the theme of Perception.
I have edited the brief so it is not directly linked to an exam board, it can be modified by teachers to link more directly to your own specifications and assessment criteria.
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.
This is a 2 page informative worksheet which takes students through the use of line in its many forms. It is informative and interactive and has enabled my students to develop their understanding of the integral nature of line.
Page 1: Information - What is line and how can it be used by artists? Students asked to define different types of line - literacy.
Page 2: Student worksheet - students instructed to develop line drawing skills demonstrating knowledge and skill.
Page 3: Teacher resource example of possible outcome for page 2.
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x3 Resources
This worksheet/questionnaire that can be used in lessons to ensure your students are aware of good practice as well as health and safety protocol when lino cutting and lino printing.
It is formatted at A3 and can be printed from A4 and up to A2.
I have also tried to add some humour to keep students on their toes.
Lino printing tips Poster - good practice.
Worksheet /Homework-A list of questions for students to answer about Lino printing history. Extension tasks added to this worksheet.
PLEASE leave a review - this is very useful for me and I would really appreciate your feedback