I am the head of a busy and successful Art and Design department with over 10 years of experience. The resources I provide are the ones we use in our department to engage with our brilliant young people and develop their Art and design skills toward excellence.
I am the head of a busy and successful Art and Design department with over 10 years of experience. The resources I provide are the ones we use in our department to engage with our brilliant young people and develop their Art and design skills toward excellence.
An Abstract painting project focusing on the artists, Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Stella, Beatriz Milhazes, and Sarah Morris. Includes a biography of Kandinsky, a quiz about his life and stage by stage through a 10 hour project creating an Abstract painting.
The project includes a vast array of resources and visual prompts for students, focusing on colour theory, creating patterns, composition, and paintinga nd coloured pencil techniques.
The project is aimed at KS3 students but could equally be used by year 6 or year 10 students with very little adjustment.
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A frame for creating a written piece of work critically analysing a work of Art. Aimed at KS3 and KS4 students. The resource features questions to answer and sentence starters as well as ideas to extend the content and subject specific vocabulary.
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A very thorough bank of comments covering almost every detail of Art and Design lessons to be used in end of year reports. Comments are sorted into him/he and she/her and are sorted according to task/Art media. For each activity/type of media, there are comments for what has gone well and what needs improving with the skill, along with general comments on the progress and comments for attitude and behaviour. The activities covered by these comments are: drawing, pencil colour work, painting, developing imaginative ideas, analysis and research, ceramics, printmaking, and understanding of art concepts and the formal elements. It could be used for any year of secondary Art and Design. It is a 12 ½ page document which includes over 7500 words. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review, thanks :)
Mini project including three tasks based on mark making and Henry Moore’s sheep drawings using fineliner pen or biro.
Task one is to try some mark making techniques using pen, task two is to copy a section of one of Henry Moore’s pieces, and task three is to draw a sheep from a photograph using similar mark making to Henry Moore.
The project could be undertaken by KS3 or KS4.
There are two versions, each with different images for students to choose from.
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A 60 slide powerpoint covering a timeline of Art history from Medieval Art through to the modern day. Each slide has images and names of some of the main artists from each Art movement.
Our whole curriculum overview for years 7 -13, praised by OFSTED, comprehensively covering a wide range of skills with each year group and building on them in each subsequent year. This is an example of what you could do with your own department in terms of curriculum provision. It is also an example of the sort of document that you could refer to in any meeting with an OFSTED inspector and could easily be tweaked to contain your own current provision. The last column was particularly praised where each unit of work at KS3 is clearly linked to GCSE and A Level specifications and marking criteria.
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Homework booklets to be used with KS3 students to help them practice drawing objects and portrait features from Photographs. Two booklets of 11 pages, each with 7 high quality photographs for students to use a grid method to copy the shapes. The resource also includes a page for teacher and self assessment focusing on specific drawing skills to be demonstrated through the tasks.
Detailed Artist of the week powerpoint, and publisher/PDF A3 posters. Great for OFSTED showing how as a department you are celebrating and promoting Art and Design around the wider school and how you are promoting a wide range of Art and Design disciplines. Over the course of the year the resource thoroughly covers a wide range of Art and Design disciplines; Fine Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Conceptual Artists, Installation, Fashion designers, and Architects. It covers Artists from history and from different cultures, and men and women Artists.
Each week this resource includes a powerpoint with two slides about the artist in a refreshing and interesting way, including a range of their works and one of their works in greater detail. It also includes 2 PDF/Publisher A3 posters for display around the department or school. The detailed posters include Artworks by the artist (all of them different to the powerpoint), a quote from the artist, and also include a brief overview of the artist’s life and/or Art.
This resource could also be used as a bank of resources about a wide range of Artists for students to use as inspiration and reference for their GCSE/A level coursework.
There are 40 Artists covered through the year, one for each school week (UK) and an extra one just in case. The Artists are:
Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Claes Oldenberg, Yayoi Kusama, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Auguste Rodin, Jessica Walsh, Utagawa Hiroshige, Andy Goldsworthy, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Frank Gehry, Olafur Eliasson, Chuck Close, Cornelia Parker, Chris Ofili, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Henry Moore, Adhemas Batista, Glenn Brown, John Constable, Georgia O’Keefe, Vivienne Westwood, Ron Mueck, Peter Doig, Stuart Semple, Philip Treacy, J. M. W. Turner, Richard Wilson, Frida Kahlo, Bridget Riley, Vincent Van Gogh, Alberto Giacometti, Antonio Gaudi, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Katsushika Hokusai, Claude Monet, Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio, Barbara Hepworth, and Martin Creed.
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Influenced by the American painters, David Salle and James Rosenquist, students will create a piece of work including 30 - 50 objects that represent them. The project takes 5 - 6 lessons to complete and focuses on composition and drawing objects from students’ imaginations.
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Resources prompting students to experiment with ideas and explore different techniques and approaches in creating their art through 5 mini projects. Students will take their own personal starting point and take influence from a wide range of artists. The powerpoints include images from over 40 different artists and direct students to explore overlapping and merging images, working on interesting surfaces, working with collage, incorporating text into their Art, and including pattern. Some of the artists in the powerpoints include:
Marie Esther, Dimitra Milan, Manny Robertson, Sammy Slabbinck, Loui Jover, Chris Lord, Martin O’Neill, Ed Fairburn, Stephanie Ledoux, Darlene McElroy, Andrew Slagado, Thaneeya McArdle, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Mel Bochner, and Stuart Semple.
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A mini project based on the surreal artist Rene Magritte.
It includes a biography and quiz, then a short written piece about one of his artworks. Students will then work through a series of activities to promote imagination based on a series of Rene Magritte’s paintings based on apples culminating in a final outcome that could be developed further for GCSE coursework.
Work through the resources as follows:
Read biography
Go through the powerpoint
Optional task of an observational drawing from life of an apple
Work through the worksheet activities
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Three homework projects on the Artists Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. In each project students will copy a piece of the artist’s work and analyse it. These projects would be ideal for distance-learning and for students to continue to develop their Art skills and knowledge at home
Two graphic design projects aimed at KS3 students which would be perfect for distance learning. Each project has plenty of visual resources and very detailed guidance and step by step instructions. The projects should take about 6-10 hours to complete each and focus on developing graphic design skills and imaginative approaches.
Two Art projects aimed at KS3, each one would take students about 4-5 hours. detailed step by step guidance and instructions are included as part of the projects along with a vast array of visual resources. Students could easily undertake these projects form a distance with limited teacher input.
Powerpoints containing 104 slides covering 41 artists and graphic designers (the majority are contemporary) collected and categorised ready to use. The slides contain high quality images for each artist covering a broad spectrum of their work. They can be used for stimulus for a project or to support a student’s coursework on a particular theme.
I have collected and used these over the past 15 years with GCSE and A level Art and Design students to provide them with appropriate artists for their coursework and exam projects in order to cover their critical and contextual reference.
The categories covered are:
Abstract Artists – powerpoint with 43 slides covering 13 artists
Typographers and Graphic designers – powerpoint with 61 slides covering 28 artists
A six week project in which students design a personal coat of arms including instructions on drawing a shield, drawing a banner, including symbolism and adding a motto.
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A project for students to complete at home based on four surreal artists, two contemporary (Leszek Kostuj and Lora Zombie) and two from Art History (Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte).
The project involves writing about a piece of Art and copying sections from each artist.
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A small project based on the artist Frida Kahlo that could be delivered by non specialists or to a greater depth by a specialist teacher. The powerpoint and resource sheet work together to direct student to learn about Frida Kahlo’s life , to analyse one of her paintings, and to create a personal response to her work. This could form teh beginning of a whole scheme of work based on her life and art. The resource contains a student friendly biography and a quiz based on her life.
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Stand alone project that is simple enough for non specialists or could be taken to greater depths with a specialist teacher. Plenty of images from Andy Warhol in a wide variety of subjects and styles. Also includes a student friendly biography of his life. and questions based on his art and life.
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A checklist of tasks for the whole year for your Art and Design technician. Tasks are broken down into daily, weekly, monthly, termly and yearly tasks. The resource also includes a timetable for requests of assistance at the start and end of lessons and a form for requests of other tasks.