Shells Photobank
Over 60 high resolution photos of shells. An image library for inspiration that would be a great starting point for any drawing, painting or textiles project.
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 […]
This is a super-useful resource sheet to complement any Kate Malone project. Use it in class and ask your students to draw in different media, or set each one as a drawing homework which will cut down on marking as three lots of homework will only need marking once! This will sit well alongside your […]
This 12 slide PowerPoint looks at 5 different photographs that have strong one point perspective and introduces the term ‘Vanishing Point’. It looks at two different famous paintings which also strongly use one point perspective. It then sets a task to draw a road/landscape with one point perspective and the presentation carefully breaks this down […]
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