Author: The Arty Teacher
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Artist’s Bedroom in a Shoebox
Art teacher Maria Romanski recently shared these amazing photos of her students’ work on social media. For their holiday homework, she challenged them to design an artist’s bedroom inside a shoebox. The students’ creativity and enthusiasm shine through in every detail! Maria explained that she set this task for Year 7 and/or 8 students (Ages…
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Navigating Ai Art in Art Education
I’m torn and feel unsure about the whole Ai image-creation thing. I can see that there are two sides to this story. On the one hand, it feels like cheating, like theft and devoid of skill. On the other, I’m mindful of previous advances that frightened the artworld like the printing press, photography and digital…
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Artists Who Use Mark Making in their Work
Mark-making is part of most school art curriculums as it aims to broaden students perceptions of what drawing is and what is can be. When taught well, it helps students express emotions, ideas, and individuality by simply making marks on a surface. Although it can open up a world of exciting drawing, it could seem…
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Fall Art Lessons
I really enjoy delivering Fall art lessons. It’s a good idea to get students to respond to the world around them and a great excuse for observational drawing and colour mixing. The resources below encourage both of these skills. Wonderful Winter Squash The winter squash images below are so Autumnal and beautiful. They could inspire…
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Book Review: Creative Careers – Unlocking Art School Admissions by Julie Read
It’s refreshing to read a book that loudly acknowledges that the routes into a creative career often differ from those of an academic career. To art teachers this is obvious, but to schools who promote the sausage factory conveyor belt to University, the parents who hear their mantra and the students who absorb it, it…
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Art Club Activity – Lizard Bananas!
This is a fun art club activity to try with your students, and certainly a little different. An extra-curricular activity is meant to offer something the curriculum doesn’t and this definitely ticks that box. Your students may think you’ve gone bananas! You need to cut out and tape the lizard image, or any suitable image,…