Techniques & Processes

‘Art Shaped’ by Darrell Wakelam should be in every art teachers collection, no matter what age group they teach.  And it should be recommended by tutors who run teacher training courses, that’s how good it is. Wakelam is a freelance teaching artist who spends his time creating card constructed projects with children in schools. You can […]

The word Zine (like MagaZINE) has evolved to represent a self-published, non-commercial magazine-like publication. Artists and organisations publish Zines to cover a variety of topics from art and social issues to personal thoughts. Their content can be written, drawn, printed, or collaged and usually combines words and imagery. One of the benefits of Zines is […]

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 […]

An exciting curriculum includes a broad range of different drawing techniques created with different media. I’m always looking for ways to get my students excited by drawing. Regularly offering different drawing techniques can be a small part of a larger plan and allows more students to find success. It is important to educate our younger […]

This exciting blog post explores my favourite strategy for raising attainment in a GCSE class where you have mixed/low ability learners or simply a very large class where it is hard to monitor progress.  This is subscriber only content.  

This blog post explores how to make drawing charcoal. When I saw these step-by-step images below on Facebook, uploaded by art teacher Bernard Ionesco, that clearly show how to make charcoal, I just had to get in touch and see if I could share them. You would need one hell of a risk assessment to […]