Author: The Arty Teacher
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Art Supplies for the Art Classroom from Dryad Education
Sourcing and ordering art supplies for the art classroom is a time-consuming part of our jobs. It’s expensive and can be frustrating when mediums don’t come up to the standard we expect. I’ve ordered art supplies through Dryad Education and the Special Crafts and Spectrum range for a long time and have found them to…
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A Strategy to Raise Achievement in Art
This strategy is for GCSE students who struggle to work independently or for those teachers who have enormous mixed ability classes where it is impossible to support a them in a truly independent course of study. You may have behavioural issues and difficulty in encouraging students to complete homework. This simple strategy asks students to…
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Strong Starts – How to Make a Strong Start to a Lesson
This is a guest blog post from art teacher Fiona Leadbeater and is taken from her excellent blog Perfectly Imperfect Educator. Observing other teachers is such a great form of professional learning. There are many things to be learned from being part of a lesson taught by a more experienced teacher. However, sometimes I worry…
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What is Form in Art?
Form is one of the elements of art and refers to three-dimensional objects. Shapes are flat and have two dimensions (height and width). Forms have three dimensions. (height, width and depth). Real Forms Real Forms occupy space, such as sculptures or buildings. Implied Forms Implied Form. An artwork can have implied form if it appears to…
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How to Make Drawing Charcoal
This blog post explores how to make drawing charcoal. When I saw these step-by-step images below on Facebook, uploaded by art teacher Bernard Ionesco, that clearly show how to make charcoal, I just had to get in touch and see if I could share them. You would need one hell of a risk assessment to…
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eBay Ruins Charity Auction
I’ve always admired and supported #sophiespostcard which is a charity postcard art auction in memory of a pupil of St Richard’s Catholic College, Sophie Maria Taylor, who was cared for by The Royal Marsden but lost her life to cancer on 5th April 2017. Since that time, this school has raised thousands of pounds for…