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  • Van Gogh Research Crossword

    Van Gogh Research Crossword

    Van Gogh Research Crossword.  Are you fed up with students cutting and pasting chunks from the internet and calling it research? Using a crossword puts you in control and makes students research real facts.  This Van Gogh crossword asks students to research some of the key facts about Van Gogh.  It includes an answer sheet too. […]

  • What Media? What Surface?

    What Media? What Surface?

    Whether you use this to remind yourself what media and surfaces you could use, or if you use it to help your students be more independent, it’s a really useful list.  It suggests 13 different mediums, 20 Surfaces, and also suggests 8 ways to make a surface to work on. Ideal for GCSE, A Level, […]

  • Toothpaste Grid Drawings

    Toothpaste Grid Drawings

    3 Toothpaste grid drawings to teach detailed, tonal drawing.  An excellent resource to build into any still life unit of work.  Ideal as both classwork or homework.  There are two versions of each grid drawing, one with the grid lines in place, and one where students have to draw their own grid lines but there […]

  • Negative Space in Art – Teaching Drawing

    Negative Space in Art – Teaching Drawing

    How do you teach students about negative space in Art?  These worksheets will really help.  The task for students is to draw the shapes between the twigs.  Ideal if you are teaching about ‘Space’ as an element of art.  An invaluable lesson in their journey to become better at drawing.  This download includes: 2 worksheets […]

  • The Portraits Game – Starter

    The Portraits Game – Starter

    Get your students really looking at portraits and answering questions with ‘The Portraits Game’ starter activity.  Students have to match six clues to six portraits by famous artists.  Each clue also includes a question for you to questions your students further. Duration: 10 minutes There are more starter activities on The Arty Teacher.

  • Toothpaste Tubes Photobank

    Toothpaste Tubes Photobank

    24 high-resolution images of toothpaste tubes.  These wonderfully sculptural forms are a delight to draw, providing your students with a challenge.  You could draw and paint using a range of media, surfaces and scale.