The Arty Teacher

I have been lucky enough to be sent a copy of the photography book ‘Open Aperture.  The Evolution of Photography in an Abstract World’ by its author Paul Matte.  I’m really pleased that it has been brought to my attention as the more I’ve looked at it, the more I’ve realised that it is pure […]

Are you being asked to design a recovery curriculum for your art and design department? A recovery curriculum is a curriculum, as suggested by Barry Carpenter, CBE, Professor of Mental Health in Education, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Matthew Carpenter, Principal, Baxter College, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, UK, that uses the five levers ‘Relationships’, ‘Community’, ‘Transparent Curriculum’, […]

Artist Klari Reis creates art in Petri dishes.  Like the cultures you would expect to find there, the daubs of colour bloom, bleeding paint seems frozen in time, whisps and tendrils reach across the glossy surfaces reminding us of past science lessons and images from under the microscope.  The desire to peer closer is inevitable. […]

This blog post details 5 ways to extend student work after lockdown.  I’ve seen a lot of art teachers on social media worrying about the quantity of work their students have created in lockdown.  First things first, don’t worry you are not alone.  You are not the only one who is worrying like crazy that […]

I’m so excited about this!  When you subscribe to 10 resources a month, you also get access to my online art Venn diagram maker.  Watch the video to learn more: Use it to compare two artworks by an artist or two artworks by different artists. Of course, you can link it to projects you are […]

The ideas below are all easy art starter activities for zoom.  Many of us are zooming away every lesson and it’s good to have some new ideas to keep things fresh and students engaged. Students Change their Background Picture This first one is so simple. Your students will already know how to change their background […]