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 […]
Sharing the assessment objectives of any piece of work or project should be an essential part of your teaching. You can use this yourself or for peer or self-assessment. It’s a clear and simple way to let your students know at the start of a project what you want them to aim for. There are […]
This detailed drawing task asks your students to copy the tone/value they can see in the image on the left. This is an excellent task for teaching the formal elements. There are two versions of this worksheet when you purchase, one using the word ‘Tone’ and one using the word ‘value’.
I have used this more than any of my other worksheets! This is a brilliant sheet for your classes when you are first introducing the idea of tone and you want to teach some basis skills. In each letter your students need to shade, getting darker as they go across the page. Alternatively, you could […]
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I have been a high school art teacher for over 20 years, so I understand what it’s like to be in front of a class of students, often with very different abilities and attitudes.
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