A set of 3 worksheets suitable for Art & Design cover lessons. Students are asked to alter a famous painting in the style of grime artist Richie Velazquez. The worksheets use the paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earing Mona Lisa Frida Kahlo You can always replace the paintings on the sheet, or use student photographs instead!

Set of resources challenging students to design their own coffee cup sleeve in the style of artist Lei Xue. Xue mixes traditional Chinese Willow patterns with contemporary, pop art references. Students are asked to create their own take on this design. The set of sheets include instructions, examples and references for Lei Xue’s work. A Y7 example of the task and the coffee sleeve template. This task can be extended to develop the design and printed to actually create coffee cup wraps or reusable cups. Please note, this is a worksheet and template pack only. No presentation is included.

An overview of basic Photoshop techinques to enhance the use of typography in GCSE and A Level design. The PDF offers instruction, hints and tips to help add to images.

KS3 Art & Design lesson plan and presentation for the illustrator Ben Brown. Full lesson plan tasks students to create their own Day of the Dead, Brown inspired skull observation.

Presentation introducing students to creating zines as a way of presenting projects. The slides take you through a brief history and holds videos of mini documentaries and how to begin your own outcome. The presentation can be adapted to reflect any completed project or used as a starting point to collect visual ideas and recordings. Excellent stimulus to encourage wider thinking on complex issues within society and how to visually represent them.

Presentation giving instruction to a group Christmas drawing challenge. Each student is allocated one of 20 squares to complete using tonal shading. Once complete, the squares place together to create a large scale drawing of The Grinch. This was originally carried out as a remote, online task and images pasted together digitally. It may adapted easily for in class purposes.

A presentation and tutorial to guide students through the work of Temi Coker, creating a mixed media digital poster as an end product. Students are to draw a portrait of an inspirational figure from back history before piecing together a poster design, in the style of Temi Coker. Basic Photoshop instruction provided with room for students to make their own copy of the presentation and add their development as they progress. Analysis prompts and written tasks are also provided throughout the presentation.

A cover lesson worksheet which challenges students to take a section of Kate Brinkworth’s coke bottle paintings and replicate them using pencil colours. The task is designed to allow students to practice their use of ellipses whilst drawing, before applying colour knowledge and shading to complete the piece. This is a stand alone worksheet with instructions and success criteria.

KS3 Michael Craig Martin still life lesson plan and accompanying presentation. Lesson guides students through tasks for both hand made and digital outcomes. The presentation also instructs on future steps for development, creating a digital repeat 90s pattern.

Visual stimulus for one of art lesson based on Shadowology. These slides introduce the work of illustrator Vincent Bal and encourages students to work creatively in making their own designs. Originally used during distance online learning, students enjoyed working away for the screens and challenging their creative minds. It also acts as great stimulus into creative writing from the characters and senarios created.

Art & Design and Graphic Design cover lesson worksheet. Students to create their own 3D typography drawing in the style of Pop Artist Ed Ruscha. Also suitable for extension tasks to practice tonal shading in KS3 and develop 3D drawing techniques.

Brief scheme of work aimed at a Y12 induction to Graphic Design. The scheme of work begins with students studying Rauschenberg’s collage screenprints and interprets them into modern collage pieces. Eventually, students are lead to create a social media ident which introduces them to basic After Effects functions. The slides are lesson overviews, not tutorials for Photoshop and After Effects.

Word Document guiding students through their Written Study for A Level Art & Design. The document was originally used for the Edexcel spec but can be adapted to any exam board. The style of writing encourages students to write as a commentary, rather than a traditional essay. Can be delivered at the end or in sections through the Y13 course.

Digital tutorial to create a Magdiel Lopez piece of Graphic Design. Layout in a sketchbook format, students make their own copy and track their progress through the easy to use tutorial. Used for AS Level Graphic Design but suitable for GCSE, BTEC or KS3. Can be used during online learning by using Photopea instead of Photoshop.

Easy to follow instructions for students to recap and learn the very basic Photoshop functions to move work within a file. Sheet covers: moving objects. making objects bigger / smaller. rotate an object. Simple shape placement tasks can be carried out from these basic instructions.

Set of 3 “There’s More to Art Than Meets the Eye” posters, offering future career prospects and transferable skills. The middle poster offers a quote from a Surgical Professor, encouraging the use of dexterity through studying art.

A presentation guiding students through the creation of a digital culture poster. Students are asked to select a country before creating a tile which is repeated to create the background. Students then draw their own national animal of their chosen country and layer the two stages together. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 and can be followed using Photoshop or Photopea.

Worksheet designed to aid students with written analysis for Art & Design. Space is left in the middle of the sheet to include a chosen piece of the artist’s work before discussing their thoughts and opinions towards the pieces. Space is also left for students to complete the artist’s name as a title in the style which matches the genre of work the artist worked in.

A selection of slides guiding students through a repeat pattern process on Photoshop or Photopea. The design requires students to experiment with marbling techniques before following the slides to repeat and manipulate their pattern on Photoshop. Suitable for Art & Design, Photography, Graphic Design and Textiles Design for GCSE and A Level.