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. […]
Have you always wanted to do one of those cool pages you see on Pinterest where students draw facial features from magazines like the example above? Only when you look through magazines you can’t find enough images for a class? This download is the solution. It includes: The fantastic example above with six drawings completed […]
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.
