This essential worksheet has been designed for teaching crosshatching. It gives two examples, Durer and Da Vinci and asks students to complete two tasks. This would fit into any drawing skills workshop or work as a cover lesson or homework. You could use this as a lesson before you go on to look at Giorgio Morandi […]
This creative Pointillism Eye unit of work, teaches students about Pointillism, Seurat and optical mixing. It includes everything you need. It starts with Students looking at a PowerPoint on Pointillism focusing on Seurat. (16 slides) It includes a script and looks at: A definition for Pointillism Seurat & Signac How the Impressionists influenced them. Two […]
These Insects Worksheets are always popular. Get your classes working in fine liner or complete the sheet in a range of media. This would also be a useful resource for a minibeasts/bugs project. Teach drawing skills, fine motor skills and symmetry. Check out all the insect art resources on The Arty Teacher, or animal art […]
Support your students when annotating their sketchbooks with these sentence starters. Areas covered include: Artist Research Pages Experimenting with Different Media Content Development Personal Response Reviewing Compositions This resource also includes some good examples of annotation in the black boxes.
Use the ‘Talking About Art’ placemat as a stimulus when asking your students to talk about art. The download includes a document that explains how to use the placemat for a starter activity, where you divide your class into groups and give them time to discuss the sentence starters, and then you ask for feedback. […]
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