Art Lesson Resources

This blog post is in progress! It’s a growing list of US state birds as grid drawings. Keep checking back to see if your state is here. What is the Alabama State Bird? The Alabama state bird is the Northern Flicker, also known as the Flicker. The Northern Flicker is a large, brown woodpecker with […]

Art teachers have been sharing some great ideas for fun art lessons for the first day on social media.  Some teachers go through expectations and rules and this may be the right thing to do in your school or even a requirement by your management but given the choice, I like to try to get […]

If you are looking for art exams to use at KS3 or middle school or junior high, you’ve come to just the right place.  Below are three art exams.  A drawing art exam, a colour theory art exam and an art analysis art exam.  Each has versions for the UK and US with different, appropriate […]

I love it when students don’t realise they’re learning.  When they walk through the door in the few weeks before the winter break and say ‘Are we doing something fun’ or ‘Can we do something festive’, I want to be able to say yes, safe in the knowledge that what I have planned still teaches […]

I really enjoy delivering Autumn 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 […]

How do you teach your students to analyse art? You can do this through a range of activities such as discussion, gallery education, research, written analysis and questioning. This blog post features my art analysis worksheets and art analysis Venn Diagrams. Both provide a structured way to approach art analysis. Each one comes with a […]