Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
Students will create their own open window painting after been inspired by Henri Matisse
Students to write about Henri Matisse 'The open window ’ and understand what is Fauvism
Easy student examples - outcomes of watercolour designs
Clear step by step drawing of the windowdesigns and students left to add in own detail to make it more interesting
Students gain confidence in drawing using the simplified shapes of Fauvism and practise watercolour techniques
A short presentation highlighting the key facts and characteristics of the German Expressionism.
There are references to a number of artists, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rotluf, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Otto Mueller.
Expressionism was made up of Der Brucke Art movement and Der Blaue Reiter - there are also examples of these artists linked to Expressionism.
Der Blaue Reiter is Frans Marck and Wassily Kandinsky.
Key examples given with notes about the movement to be used as worksheets for students.
A powerpoint outlining some tasks for a Key Stage 3 project on Tim Burton. In this project there are a number of skills, pencil drawingwith pen work, chalk and charcoal drawing on black paper, making a black and white silhouette cut out, collaging harcoal drawing onto bottle and painting bottle, further developing a character on a bottle and making a wool paper character. This also has a few quizzes and student examples of work to support the tasks.
Starting with presenting a title page for Tim Burton and copying some of his scenes by practising pencil tone and mark making. Layering pencil and black pen in drawing when copying Burton’s work Photocopy examples for students to work from to print off.
Then developing a cut out in black paper looking at the strange, Gothic type black and white silhouettes of some of his scenes and making a page on his settings using black paper and cut-outs.
The slides give a number of the silhouette type scenes for students to use for inspiration. Further developing a character drawing and students are to look at the number of different slides and these could be printed off for students and letting them develop their own character. Some of the You tube film clips are linked on the slides as well. Students draw out the character and then colour this in.
Tim Burton’s scenes are often dark and atmospheric and this is an ideal opportunity to practise drawing with white chalk, charcoal or black soft pastel on black sugar paper and to do a drawing of one of his black and white characters. There are some examples to use to copy from to support the students learning. This black and white scene can further be photocopied and collaged onto a bottle. There is also an extension task to make a head on a wine bottle in paper-mache and lots of inspirational examples of student work
Another fun task is to play with wool and paper and to make a rolled animal using newspaper in rolls and then wrapping wool around this and to bend into shape. This can further be embellished by adding bits and bobs like buttons, braid and other decorative details to develop a character type animal which has been inspired by Burton.
There are a few quizzes and homework tasks as well.
Looking at the work of Peter Blake- there is a page of information and questions on his work.
There are examples of his alphabet artworks and cover designs for Famous Music artists.
Students are inspired by his work of collage, photography and free drawing style.
Task 1. Students make their own Pop art alphabet style and this links to Graphics and students can look at Pop art letter styles.
Task 2 Students are asked to find their own popular things linked to each letter of the alphabet. Students are asked to make their own alphabet using the similar ideas as Peter Blake, but to focus on trying to create a favourite thing for each of letter of the alphabet. Students then put these ideas on an A4 or A3 paper. There are examples of different alphabets and student examples of final outcome.
Task 4 Students play with letters and take one letter and make this in various different designs This is a Graphics exercise and students learn to play with one letter and styles.
Task 3 Students put a collage together in the style of Peter Blake. Students should use lettering/ graphics and link this to their own favourite things and then make a collage of this in a 26cm square shape. students can use pictures from magazines , comics and newspaper and cut out and collage.
Task 5 Students should creatively now make their own album design. There are formats for the CD covers to use as a template. Presentation gives examples for inspiration of Peter Blake’s alphabet designs and album covers and looks at some of his famous Album cover designs. Students need to make their own CD cover of their favourite musician. Students to use a variety of media for final task.
This is a GCSE coursework project on a theme called ‘Surfaces’ giving you loads of ideas to develop with your students. It deals with developing ideas to gain confidence with different media and to develop sketchbook skills. It is about the process of developing the Examboard Assessment Objectives AO1- Develop ideas from artists and AO2 Exploring different media for coursework.
It gives a set of observational photographs to work from for Assessment Objective 3 - AO3.
It gives you different artists to look at to gather resources on and students will be able to use these as artist studies and begin to explore these artists techniques and do studies in their book. This if for Assessment Objective 1 and students can gain ideas on ways to develop their skills in techniques through these artists and in so doing ‘Develop ideas’.
There are further sets of techniques for Assessment Objective 2 and one can explore, experiment with ideas for developing ‘creativity’ in your classroom. That is, exploring a number of different media and showing how one can take risks with the media in order to create an interesting effect. There are slides giving you a set of techniques to use - explaining how to use media in creative ways. These techiques link with the list of artists given on slides to start with.
The experimental techniques are:
=white paint printing,
=wax and scratch,
=distressing surfaces,
=dripping paint, scraping paint,
=using sgrafitto,
=cardboard collaging
=layering digital manipulations with collage
=using fabric and sewing into surfaces.
Emphasis here is that students should play and take risks and experiment with different materials and begin to layer and be able to draw on different surfaces.
It is a fun set of techniques at GCSE and/or A-level with students using their own resource material and developing their confidence and fluency with making creative experiments. Students can develop their own responses using the techniques.
There are questions so that students can write a final evaluation.
After this set of work students should be confident and independent enough to find their own photographs and to develop their own idea for a final piece for Assessment Objective 4.
In the first part of the powerpoint students are asked to listen to pieces of music and to formulate slogans from them.
Students then are asked to do a critical analysis of the work of Banksy by selecting one of his works and answering questions.
After this students are asked to copy a picture of Banksy and then make their own collage of his work using magazines and newspapers.
The theme of their poster is on the pandemic.
We will be learning:
To create a poster collage in the style of Banksy that describes the pandemic occurring and linking this to the UK
To use magazines, newspapers and pictures and to make a collage of these to create a poster.
To make a slogan, drawing the lettering or finding letters in magazies or newspaper.
Success Criteria
Your poster must include the following:
A key phrase or work linked to the pandemic
Two image that links to what is happening in the UK
or something that is key in the NEWS.
It should have graffitti style lettering and pencil work
Accurate shape outline
Good use of negative space
Link between font style and theme
Clear placements/readable
This is a good exercise to teach students about symmetrical pattern design and to learn about an interesting culture in South Africa - the Ndebele. The powerpoint gives you loads of examples of their work and links to You tube clips and South African songs.
Develop an understanding of the Ndebele culture through the links on the powerpoint. There are lots of examples of their work to inspire and enable students to develop their own symmetry pattern in the style of the Ndebele artists. There are questions and info sheets.
Students will be able to make a symmetry pattern - a piece of jewellery as students Paint a piece of thin wood- cut into a shape. This is a good project for an ‘international project’ to develop a cultural awareness.
Students design and make a symmetry pattern in the style of the Ndebele artists and then transfer this to a piece of wood shape.
year 7
Diagnostic for year 7
Celtic letters
Paper mache plants
Clay Gargoyles
year 8
Cubism
Making Insects - paper craft
Modern Movements - collage and paint
Surrealism - painting project
To understand what the elements of art are: line, shape, colour, texture, space,value and tone and where PATTERNS appear in nature.To learn about different terms in pattern making and how to make a repeat designTo make a page of patterns, combining cultural patterns and everyday patterns
Create a title on your page called ‘Pattern’
Describe the word pattern using keywords- looking at examples of patterns and how one makes a pattern
Students are asked to list 3 areas where pattern can be recognised in everyday life. There is an understanding also in slidesto explain what the elements of art are, line, colour , shape and how to make patterns
Students are asked to research the internet pictures that show different words relating to patterns
students are given tasks to make a display slide on a Powerpoint showing the following patterns.
Students research the names below and find an example of this type of pattern online - then save a copy of the picture.
Students make their own powerpoint on PATTERN and write out the words below of different patterns and paste an example of this pattern ,on a piece of paper to draw your own pattern for each.
Flowery pattern
Geometrical pattern
Variegated pattern
Organic pattern
5.Linear Pattern
Symmetrical pattern
Radial balance pattern
Informal balance pattern
Check pattern
Animal pattern
Paisley pattern
Chevron pattern.
Basketweave pattern
Repeat pattern
A sculptural project or life drawing project inspired by the famous British artist, the drawings of Henri Moore.
Looking at the ink wash drawings of Henry Moore in detail his presentation shows loads of examples of the way he sketched his body shapes and looks at the way he simplified the bodies into organic shapes.
This is a good presentation to show KS3 how to simplify and to distort drawings of different poses into organic shapes. This can be used for KS3 making abstract body sculptures and shows how to reduce, simplify, re-arrange and to distort drawings into a pleasing harmonious shape.
It can also be used for A-level students doing life drawing and giving ways to explore different wax resist techniques with ink washes.
There are loads of pictures of Henri Moore’s Drawings and hopefully will inspire outcomes and enable students to develop some confidence when drawing figures.
This presentation can be bought with the Life drawing presentation.
This is a few slides of portrait drawings and to use as a starter activity where students can analyse the marks, lines and textures used to capture the portrait.
Students in pairs look at the lines used in the portraits and quickly analyse and describe the quality of the marks and what effect this has on the drawing.
A good way to find meaning in the marks and to get the mood of a drawing.
These resources support a study on Hundertwasser.
This helps with making an artist analysis of his work, interpreting a photo you take of houses into your own style and making a coloured drawing
Secondly taking this into a clay tile.
This is a resource on examples of Victoria Crowe’s work and this has been used with year 11 to get them to experiment with acrylic paint and gold leaf
Students ts find out about Scottish painter and write up a paragraph on her work. Questions included for Critical analysis
Artist study for GCSE and A-level - interpreting artist.
Learning a new technique and painting with gold.
Also a link to a video on using gold leaf to help with artist interpretation.
STUDENTS TO SELECT ONE OF HER WORKS FROM SLIDES
PRACTISE HER TECHNIQUES EXPLORING PAINT AND GOLD LEAF EXPERIMENTS
MAKE A PAGE In sketchbook FOR AN ARTIST STUDY ON HER WORK
Use the Singh Twins to inspire a collage on Self-identity Year 9 project at KS3. Students make a collage of their own photographs and favourite things. Transfer this and trace to a coloured washed background and paint in shapes and add in the fine pen line work to give detail.
This is part of a set of HUNDERTWASSER POWERPOINTS.
In this powerpoint the students use their design they made for their tiles and make a tile in clay in the style of Hundertwasser.
In this powerpoint there are examples of how to roll and make the tile with key clay steps to follow and include in tile.
There are student outcomes to look at while using key skills in making of a tile.
Students paint these with acrylic paints and varnish with PVA glue or a Varnish gloss when dry.
This is the final part of a series of Still-life lessons where students do drawings in different techniques and then make a mod-roc outcome.
In this powerpoint the students go to a computer room and do a presentation on the artist LOUISE NEVELSON and then make a mod-roc outcome. Steps are showing how to make the mod-roc relief and criteria for success with this medium.
Students then evaluate their mod-roc outcome by doing a tonal drawing of this and reflect on the outcome
Computer room research: Louise Nevelson - students write and answer the questions and resource information on this artist.
After making the mod-roc students evaluate their mod-roc outcome and do a drawing of your outcome and as a group discuss how they will as a group present their own work like Louise Nevelson.
Learning Objectives:
To explore developing a relief surface of an area of my still -life drawing and develop this in mod roc technique
To build a mod –roc outcome looking at relief techniques
To in a group build your Modroc into a standing tower with the rest of the group.
Do a study of the artist Louise Nevelson and present her work by doing an artist study of her work.
Complete the project by doing an evaluation of their mod-roc relief sculpture and do a pencil drawing of this
This is a powerpoint of some of Rauschenberg’s work so that GCSE students can explore transfer techniques while making an artist study of his work.
There are examples of how to do the transfer technique but also helpful question sheets for analysis of the artist for GCSE objective - ‘Develop ideas…’.
Lots of examples of Raushenberg are given and each child should be given one of his work to copy.
Students should then make their own Rauschenberg example using their own project topic and own photograph and practice the transfer technique and paint washes of Rauschenberg.
There is a detailed critical analysis - lots of questions for students to make a comprehensive artist study in their books.