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.
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
A Key Stage 3 project on Surrealism. A WEALTH of resources for this project giving starters and different short tasks with a landscape surreal project to improve skill in painting.
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
A support for teaching GCSE art
A number of powerpoints on individual artists to use as part of Developing ideas for Assessment Objective One.
Learning skills in Art
Acrylic painting with card - Viera Da silva
painting layers and using Gold - Victoria Crowe
Photocopy drawing with Chila Burman
Klimt patterns
Transfer medium with Robert Rauschenberg
Tim Burton drawings and fantasy art
Printing with Angie Mitchell relief prints
Figure drawing and simplification using Henry Moore
City street painting with Lowry
Peter Blake graphic CD cover
Photography of Cindy Sherman
All of these tasks will build skills for GCSE final project
Starting in year 9 and year 10 begire students choose own topic to develop
This is a unit of work for the first 12 weeks at school.
There are questions to assess the students knowledge of Art from KS2 and then a project to assess he strengths and skills of the students. This is a diagnostic project looking at the Illusionary, Spatial, Tactile, Cartographic skills of the students with tasks to do.
There is also a fun project on making a sketchbook and giving prompts to help students to be creative in the Keri Smith powerpoint.
A scheme of work starting with a pencil drawing, then a monoprint and the students interpret this in different artist styles.
Asian -British artist, Chila Burman and Frida Kahlo with a variety of different portrait artists to look at.
They use the monoprint and combine this with a Pop art collage
The students then take a photograph and then do a cultural drawing in felt tips interpreting this using cultural patterns.
I have also added a few other portrait powerpoints to use in the project.
These are important skills for Key Stage 3
There powerpoints aim to develop the following skills below and in so doing develop confidence in drawing
Line exercises with blind, contour, gestural drawing skills
Upside down drawing -how to copy
Sphere drawing - teaching tonal drawing
Drawing to create an impact with pattern and different techniques - feather drawing
Portrait drawing - looking at proportions in a face drawing
Fun- confident line combining a photo in drawing
In this powerpoint there are key objectives:
To use photographs of your school building and change them to emulate artists/photographers who show decay.
To learn how to crinkle the picture up to show paper creases
To blend in pictures of decay and textures into a school building photograph in the style of the artist.
There is a clear definition for decay and students can use this to start there project.
There are slides of a number of photographers to use for this theme and then examples of how to use Adobe Photoshop with steps to show progress in building your own outcome.
The photographers are Cedric Wilson, Serj Fedulov, Paul Stokinger,Stikki Peaches, Martino Zegwaard and Armita Raafat. Students can use these photographers and there are steps to show how to achieve these effects on Adobe photoshop used by the photographers
There is also a clear example on how to do an analysis of a photographer in your sketchbook
To start with there is a recap on composition - how to take a photo and a reminder of the 4 Key objectives used in Photography and an explanation of what key objectives this meets. This powerpoint focuses on the assessment objective 'Develop ideas" from photographers and then how to " Explore" Adobe photoshop techniques to develop your Decay theme.
Exercises, activities to develop an understanding of shape and a wide variety of tasks to experiment with the dynamics of shape.
Looking at energy points, different typeface shapes, negative and positive shapes, symmetry patterns, repeat patterns, NOTAN, designing with geometric and organic shapes, drawing shapes to different smells, using music to capture shapes, looking at the meaning of words to capture shapes and the play with tangram shapes.
This can be used with A-level students to inspire, GCSE students for starters and Key Stage 3 to develop a foundation knowledge of the basic element ‘shape’.
There are also a number of different artists like David Bomberg, Joan Miro, Stuart Davis, Escher, Lisa Milroy and Henri Matisse - artists who use a simplified shape in their work and students can interpret there own ideas from these artists.
There are lots of exercises and different tasks to experiment with shapes.
A detailed Celtic medieval project looking at examples of how to draw in a simplified stylised way and to represent one’s own family, friends, animals in an illuminated letter.
Students make up two large letters in pencil crayons learning to draw stylising their own pictures and study a number of medieval examples of letters and learn to elongate and to distort their own pictures capturing a simple picture with expression.
Students draw this on white paper their two initials and add in all the medieval patterns. There are loads of examples on this powerpoint of various medieval letters and illuminated manuscripts to copy from to give the students enough resources to work from .
There are also tasks and steps to follow for teachers. An enjoyable project that also should include how to shade carefully using light and dark tones with pencil crayons as part of unit of work and how to draw using warm and cold colours.
The work is finally presented cut out and pasted onto black paper and students can then use oil pastels and further decorate their presentation to create the intricate pattern work of an illuminated manuscript letter.
Used for A-level students to develop their interest in ink-wash techniques by looking at the work of Renaissance artists. History of Art - Renaissance ink wash methods and outcomes.
A discussion with loads of examples of their work and how they formed their compositions and developed their drawings.
Also how to make home inks.
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
Students to be given a strip of paper and fold this into 8 sections. On the end two folds students make a front cover.
There is a You tube video link to this project.
In the six sections in the middle of the fold out paper there are 6 tasks for each of the elements of art.
Line, Shape, Colour, Texture, Space and Value.
Students on the one side of the fold out write information about the element and on the other side students are to do a drawing of the element as a creative response to each element
This is a fun project and the outcomes are successful.
We will be learning about Ben Heine and how he uses Drawings and Photography
Complete the questions attached:
Heading: Ben Heine
Create your own version of Ben Hearn.
IDEA 1
DOING A DRAWING IN A PHOTOGRAPH
Steps for success
Take a photograph and load this up on a Powerpoint.
Do a drawing to add to this photograph. Load this up on the powerpoint over the photograph. Remove backgrounds. Look at the examples of Pencil and Camera on slide 2 and 3.
You could try make it quirky, personal or relate to your situation.
It must not be an exact copy of the photograph but be combined in an original quirky way.
You may add in interesting ideas that change the photograph
IDEA 2
TAKING A PHOTO GRAPH AND ADDING IN CIRCLES
KEYS FOR SUCCESS
Take a photograph and DRAW over the photograph all the circles like the examples of Digital Circlism
Try to use your own photograph
Make it as unique as you can.
You could try make it quirky, personal and could relate to your situation.
This is a resource of examples of artists who use text in their artwork and there are some examples of artists who show movement in their work.
There is also an activity to collage a set of black and white newspaper/magazine and make your own version creatively using text to show movement.
A set of 8 slides which describe the key characteristics of Dadaism and gives some examples of their works and looks at Surrealism and gives examples of some Surrealist artists.
To use as worksheets in class where students can read about the movements and develop an understanding on the movements.
A description of Duchamp, Man Ray, Dali, Ernst and Magritte with key examples of their work.