This presentation and lesson plan combine to make a superb cross-curricular art/music lesson. Mark Making to music is a wonderfully creative lesson. View the presentation with your students to look at mark making in figurative and abstract artworks. The presentation includes a script with questioning. Then use the lesson plan to complete marking making to […]
These appealing lizards are ideal to teach mark making. 4 different resources give you lots of options. Lizards Mark Marking This resource shows your students lovely lizards and has lots of boxes to copy the marks into. Try letting your students experiment with a range of media. (pencil, fine-liner, stick and ink, charcoal etc) Lizards […]
There are two versions of this Pointillism worksheet. The three eyes at the top of the page are good examples of what you want your students to create. Both worksheets ask students to create a scale of tone using dots. The first then asks students to draw and use pointillism to create an eye. The […]
This is a classic homework which asks your students to create a page of mark making. There is an A4 version and I’ve also put 4 on a page to cut down on photocopying. The WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) is for you to show in class as a good example.
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