Author: The Arty Teacher

  • Halloween Art Lessons

    Halloween Art Lessons

    It’s fun to have Halloween art lessons but I still want to deliver lessons that are full of creativity and teach new skills.  Dumbing down and colouring in certainly isn’t good enough.  All the resources below teach valuable skills but are ideal for this spooky time of year! Complete the Spooky Halloween Skull Simple: Students…

  • Free GCSE Assessment Objective Posters

    Free GCSE Assessment Objective Posters

    I’m delighted to show you these ‘GCSE Assessment Objective Posters’ made by art teacher Miranda Pennington.  You can find Miranda on Twitter @mirapennington  and also her school twitter account @strichardsart where there is lots of excellent work to be viewed. You can save these directly from this page; simply right-click and save.  These make excellent…

  • How to Gradate Watercolour Video

    How to Gradate Watercolour Video

    Teaching how to gradate watercolour is a really useful skill for students to learn.  This short video makes an excellent start to a lesson and breaks down the process of gradating watercolour into 3 easy steps.  You can show this video to your students or use it for your own professional development. The resources to…

  • Art Teacher Earrings

    Art Teacher Earrings

    Some earrings look like art teacher earrings to me!  This post is full of the artiest earrings available on the internet.  And when I say arty, I mean in-your-face obvious arty.  Wouldn’t these also make a great gift for an art teacher?  Fabulous. Art Supplies Earrings! We use art materials every day and sometimes they…

  • Art Teacher Scribble People!

    Art Teacher Scribble People!

    I saw these humorous ‘art teacher scribble people’ on Instagram posted by art teacher Karen Nall.  She kindly said I could share these images with you and that these scribble people were not her idea.  She told me: “We read the book ‘I Am Not Just a Scribble‘ by Diane Alber. The students were then…

  • Copyright for Artists

    Copyright for Artists

    Copyright for artists can be very confusing.  When I saw the images below on a Facebook group, I knew I had to contact the owner, Stephanie Longoria, to see if I could share them with The Arty Teacher community.  Luckily Stephanie was happy to share them stating that “I feel that it is important for…