For me, this year is going to be all about ‘process’ and this blog post explores 10 experimental drawing processes. What do I mean by that? Rather than concentrating on single media I’m going to think more carefully about creating processes that my students can go through so that they create exciting, experimental work. We […]
This blog post contains Is it too difficult to do Inktober in school? After all, can we really ask our students to draw every day for 31 days? I find Inktober so appealing, that I wanted to find a way to do it with my students. Asking for a drawing every day in October is […]
A few weeks ago I visited Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness. Jarman trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and went on to be a pioneering film-maker, stage designer, sculptor, painter, poet and costume and performance artist. His garden and home have been described as ‘ a living, breathing work of art’ by […]
Have you ever gone to school feeling like teaching is a chore rather than a passion? Then this post is for you. Having been in the profession for the best part of twenty years, I love my job now, probably more than I did when I took those first, tentative steps into the classroom. So […]
If you’re about to be interviewed or you’re a head of department who is going to be doing the interviewing, you’ll find the questions below useful. As an interviewee, you can’t anticipate every question but if you write down answers to the questions below, you’ll certainly fly through a good part of the interview. Writing […]
Knowing how to build a good rapport with students is useful knowledge and seems to come naturally to some teachers. If this is something you’d like to develop, there are some useful tips below. Smile There is a famous poem by Spike Milligan where the first line states ‘A Smile is Infectious’. (You can read […]
