The Arty Teacher

If you are wondering where you can find good examples of artist research pages, you’ve come to the right place.  It is great to have a collection of pages to show your students to inspire them and now you can just send them the link to this blog post.  Thanks to all the talented art […]

Student artwork inspired by artist Sarah Graham regularly brightens up our social media feeds.  Her hyper-realistic paintings of brightly coloured sweets, stacks of liquorice allsorts, Brighton rock, shiny marbles, plastic toys and her signature Chupa Chups are clearly capturing the imaginations of art teachers and students alike.  I went to her studios in the south […]

Sgraffito is a form of decoration or drawing made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting colour.  This can be done on ceramics as well as paper.  This blog post is a step-by-step guide on how to create sgraffito on paper using oil pastels. You are going to need […]

At some point in your art teaching career, it is likely that you will be asked for the strategies that you employ for incorporating numeracy in your curriculum. What is numeracy? Numeracy is the ability to apply mathematical knowledge and skills in a wide range of situations both in school and in life. As an […]

Have you ever wished you knew how to cut cardboard easily? As an art teacher, I’ve cut a heck of a lot of card over the years.  I wish I had known about this device sooner.  I first heard about it on Facebook where other art teachers were talking about how great it was.  Our […]

Ronnie Houselander-Cook is an ECT art teacher here in the UK and responded to my call on social media for ECT’s to blog in return for a free subscription to The Arty Teacher.  An ECT teacher is an ‘Early Careers Teacher’ and a term used here in the UK. ECT art teachers have contacted me […]