What is the Grid Method and How Can it Help You Teach Your Students to Draw? The grid method is a technique used in art that involves dividing an image into a series of smaller, more manageable sections using a grid. A grid is typically drawn over the reference image, and then students use the […]
Packed full of easy-to-follow, often quick and imaginative activities, ‘100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Art’ is sure to be popular. It shares 100 creative and innovative ideas to engage pupils in all areas of the primary National Curriculum for art. This book follows the same structure as the rest of the ‘100 Ideas’ series, with […]
Bea is an ECT, teaching KS3 Art and Product Design and KS4 Photography and 3D Design at a secondary school in Surrey. She completed her ITT in 2022 as an art teacher after a 20-year career in marketing and communications. Her biggest challenge this term is teaching multiple art and design disciplines whilst navigating ECT […]
Artist Duncan Cameron creates the sort of sketchbook pages that we’d love our students to create. Exquisite drawings in different media, on different surfaces explore the subject matter from a range of viewpoints. His pages reveal an artist who really investigates and explores his subject matter. Like many artists, he captures the world around him. […]
This has to be the most beautiful art apron I have ever seen. Hand-stitched by art teacher Jules White, it has been a true labour of love. She wrote on Facebook: “This project was started during Covid and took me about 15 months to complete. I bought this apron back in my Bangkok days and […]
I wanted to share with you these amazing tyre planters. Art teacher Rebekah Aleah had her 4th/5th grade Art Club students collaborate with Gardening Club who will turn them into planters. I asked her what the process had been and she told me: “First, I sprayed with a spray paint that had a primer built […]
