Natural Forms - GCSE - Insects - Artist research - Tessa Farmer

This lesson introduces the work of Tessa Farmer and could be used as artist research for the project: Natural Forms within the context of insects. Students can be introduced to the artist via a video clip made by The Natural History Museum where the artist is interviewed about her work found on Youtube. Students write notes on the artist to be used to inform a written analysis later in the lesson. Students will then follow a step-by-step visual instructions to record from the artist’s work using masking tape, dark pencil and white acrylic. Students then write an analysis of the artist as well as annotation of their own response.
The lesson consists of: a ‘hook’ or starter; objectives; step by step instruction sheets with differentiated learning outcomes and a plenary. It includes an analysis help sheet as well as sentence starters and key words. Printable resources are at the end of the powerpoint. This lesson could easily be stretched across two or three lessons in order for students to create a research page on the artist and could be developed further with more in depth research for homework.