The Arty Teacher

Some of my most rewarding lessons have been when students have really engaged with the discussion. Art teachers are exposed to many different methods of using questioning in the art classroom but what is right for you? You will have learnt about it in your training, read about it in books and stumbled across it […]

Art teachers continue to find exciting and innovative ways to make contextual links to artists.  The recycled animal art below, created by the students of art teacher Rachael Hughes and teaching assistant Lowri Hoddinott, was inspired by the artist J. Vincent Scarpace.  If you’re looking for a new recycled art project, this just might be it. […]

It’s good to have a list of questions to ask before you accept that Art Teacher job.  When you are interviewing for a job, you are interviewing the school as much as they are interviewing you.  How do you know if you should accept the art teaching position?  How do you know if the school […]

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 […]