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 large unit of work asks students to create a mixed media artwork that includes a drawing of a friend and collage pieces that represents their friend’s personality and interests. The collage appears to be ‘exploding’ from the person’s mind! During this project, students photograph a friend, learning about different portrait poses and also taking […]
This portrait project is a complete unit of work where students will: Research 4 portrait artists and create a research page. Photograph friends in their class, looking at different portrait viewpoints. Experiment with a range of different media including pencil, coloured pencils, ballpoint pens and watercolour. This download includes: A 10-slide PowerPoint presentation. A good […]
This ‘Adobe Fresco Line Portrait with Experimental Surfaces’ is a unit of work where students draw digitally and then create surfaces with different media and then print their digital drawing onto the exciting surfaces. Students will: Photograph themselves or each other, thinking about focus, background and lighting. Drawing digitally using the free Adobe Fresco App, […]
This ‘Adobe Fresco Line Portrait Inspired by Fernand Léger’ is a unit of work where students research Fernand Léger, draw digitally and then create Léger inspired surfaces to print their digital drawing onto. Students will: Research Fernand Léger and create a research page. Photograph themselves or each other, thinking about focus, background and lighting. Drawing […]
Students love drawing eyes and this Drawing an Eye with Pencil resource will support your students to do just that. In this lesson, you present the Powerpoint and then your students draw using the pictorial guide. This download includes: A two-slide Powerpoint with animated text, pictured above. A pictorial step-by-step eye resource, also pictured above. […]
I set up The Arty Teacher because I have a passion for my subject that I want to share with other art teachers around the world.
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.
I wanted to develop resources that would help teachers to bring out the best in every student in every class. I also wanted to free-up staff from time-consuming lesson preparation to let them focus instead on delivering exciting, motivating, dynamic lessons, supported by excellent resources.
