This task teaches your students how to gradate coloured pencils and watercolour using warm and cool colours. Your students will: Practice gradating coloured pencils and watercolour. Recap on colour theory and learn about warm and cool colours. Include subject-specific vocabulary in their learning. This download includes: A detailed 2-page lesson plan full of good advice […]
A Santa Claus grid drawing. There are two versions of this one-page resource: One with the lines already in place and one which has tiny marks around the edge so students can rule their own lines. The choice is yours! There is a huge collection of grid drawings and many more Christmas Art Lessons on The Arty […]
This Hanukkah menorah art activity is a great way to help your students creatively celebrate the festival of Hanukkah. Students write along the lines that radiate out from the menorah, stating what Hanukkah means to them and about the importance of lighting the menorah with their family. They go on to add watercolour. This download […]
Portrait Gridded Art Cards are high-resolution images of people of different ethnicities. There are 10 in total (5 female, 5 male) and each image is overlaid with a grid of 16 squares. Print and laminate these appealing images for your students to draw, paint or respond to creatively in other ways. I created these for […]
This resource, Seed & Seed Heads Mark Making creates a single page in a sketchbook, but as it takes over 10 lessons to complete and includes a broad range of media and skills, I am describing it as a mini unit of work. During this mini unit of work, students draw the seeds heads in […]
You might want to use these drawing dreams worksheets as a cover/sub lesson, or you may wish to include them in a Surrealism/Surrealist art project. This download includes: 4 ethnically diverse worksheets for students to draw on. Two are girls, two are boys. A good example of ‘Drawing Dreams’ worksheet as a PDF Also, the […]
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