The Arty Teacher

If you are looking for some Christmas art gifts for your arty friends (or for yourself) there are some great ideas below. You might be planning to be creative over the Christmas break.  Here are some products that are easily available on Amazon, good quality, versatile and have great reviews. I’ve coveted these arteza brush […]

I love it when students don’t realise they’re learning.  When they walk through the door in the few weeks before the winter break and say ‘Are we doing something fun’ or ‘Can we do something festive’, I want to be able to say yes, safe in the knowledge that what I have planned still teaches […]

This blog post outlines how to print with carbon paper and shows a couple of different ways to work into the prints. I was recently reminded by a colleague about the potential of printing with carbon paper and it made me want to revisit this technique. It is a dry alternative to monoprinting and can achieve […]

In the summer I was asked by the Art Education Association of New Jersey to contribute some professional development for their members about differentiation in art, so I created the video below.  This was for their online conference.  I’m pleased to say that AENJ said on Twitter that is was one of the top most-watched […]

Drawing skulls is appealing to so many students.  If you then want your students to make connections with artists, illustrator Mimi Ilnitskaya from Kazakhstan is an artist worth knowing about. Her whimsical drawings of skulls are inspired by some of her favourite artists: Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo […]

Using Showbie for art lessons is a solution for online learning.  I have found Showbie is the perfect platform for art teachers as for each child you can see a progression of their work within the assignments that you create.  It is intuitive to use and I’ve started to use it in more and more […]