A good resources to help welcome a new tutor group in to your classroom and get to know them a little better. This worksheets asks students to fill in lot’s of information about themselves, which is useful at the start of the year. Ideal for new Year 7s or groups you are meeting for the first time.

A cover lesson designed to be fully self explanatory with an accompanying PowerPoint and worksheets to support a range of students in creating their own piece of kooky art inspired by Kandinsky himself. Rather than produce a copy, students are introduced to the artist, his methods and ways of working before being asked to create their own compositions with these key ideas in mind. A step-by-step slide is included to guide and structure the activity and another showing example shapes and designs. 3 different worksheets are also included, one blank and two with shapes to get students started. Can be a self-contained activity or used as a larger project or scheme of work.

This is a collection of the slides I use every year to introduce my students to the art classroom and my own expectations of them. There are up to 9 specific rules for the art classroom, each explained simply and with eye-catching colours and graphics. I have also included the COVID specific guidance I gave students in September 2020 regarding safe practices in the classroom. Included also is guidance on using a sketchbook in a personal way. This PowerPoint is easy to modify and adjust to your own specific needs and works well with both KS3 and KS4 students.

An activity that supports students to consider the products and services they use everyday and record in a creative way. This is a good resources to illustrate the idea of mass-production and consumerism as integral themes to Pop Art whilst making it all about the individual student and their daily experience. An A3 sheet of example logos is included to help support the activity. This task is suitable for remote learning.

This hugely detailed resource is a large scale poster that supports students with their artist analysis. Questions and sentences starters are used at every stop to encourage students to think deeply about what they are looking at, the context in which it was made and the elements and principles involved in its creation. Students are guided to describe, interpret, analyze and judge the work and then link this to their own practice and development of their ideas and intentions. This would best support students at KS4 and KS5. I have had this as a large display in my classroom, where it has been used constantly. Three JPG file sizes are included as well as a PDF version: Large: 84 cm x 47.1 cm Medium: 59.4 cm x 33.3 cm Small: 42cm x 23.5 cm

This PowerPoint is a single lesson and homework activity which supports analysis of Van Gogh’s still life painting of ‘Red Cabbages and Onions’. This would work well as part of a natural form project, with an emphasis on mark making. The painting itself is looked at in terms of the technique and colours used by the artist. The task involves a worksheet with a gridded study of the original painting and increasingly difficult questions to prompt students to analyse Van Gogh’s work and either discuss or write a response. This task is suitable for remote learning.

Designed to cover several lessons, this short project is a follow up to the Michael Craig Martin Artist Analysis resource currently available in my shop. The activities look at still life as a method of exploring self identity and investigates what collections of objects might say about us. Students are guided to take photos, and make studies from their own belongings and use these to create a response to the work of Michael Craig Martin. Several outcome options are given as well as extension activities for the more able or keener art student. This task is suitable for remote learning.

A colour coded version of AQA’s assessment matrix for GCSE Art & Design. This resource is easy to read and written using key terminology from the original document in a student friendly way. I have also included the equivalent grades (A*- U) in line with the 1-9 grading we now use. This is my estimation, however. A good resource to share with students. Files available both in JPEG and PDF format and in A4 dimensions.

Stuck for ideas? Need to experiment? Unsure how to develop a personal response? This large scale poster, measuring 50cm x 115cm is a useful addition to any classroom or studio. Action words are listed to give a quick burst of inspiration, and aid experimentation with design, process, material and technique. QR codes are displayed on the poster which link to a Pinterest board full of ideas and inspiration. Ideal for GCSE or Alevel students working independently to refer to during whilst working or as a way to extend any student in developing their own work. File is available as JPG and PDF.

This A4 worksheet contains 4 different shading activities. Each tasks helps to develop students understanding of key terms and the use of tone, and puts this in to practice to help develop their overall level of skill and control. All instructions are on the worksheet, so this could stand alone as a cover lesson or task to be completed at home which students would be able to work on independently. This task would help to support units of work covering basic drawing skills, elements and principles or a still life project. Ideal for KS3, but could help older individual students develop drawing skills.

This lesson guides students through the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo with a focus on context, subject matter and symbolism. Two portraits are looked at in detail and aspects of the artist’s own personal life used to give wider context. There is a link to a YouTube video and worksheet included. This is intended to be a taught lesson with a follow up homework in which students respond to what they have learnt by creating an artist research page with study and written analysis.

This resource is a set of 36 cards designed to be printed A4, folded in half and laminated to A5 size. Each one includes the same set of questions to support discussions about the image on the reverse. Each of the 36 cards includes a different famous portrait which range from ancient, medieval and renaissance images to modern day artists. All cards include basic information regarding artist, image and date created. Included with this set is a template, which shows the questions, but leaves space for you to include your own image. This resource is ideal for students studying portraiture and identity, in Key Stages 3, 4 and even 5. The questions vary in terms of difficulty so would suit students of a range of abilities.

This is a comprehensive resource comprising two activities designed to explore mark making and the use of materials before beginning observational drawings of natural forms. Included in the PowerPoint are aims, differentiated success criteria, key terms, questioning using blooms taxonomy, examples of work and templates ready to be printed and used. This resources would be suitable as the first few lessons (2-3) of a project based on drawing and natural forms and would work well for KS3 and KS4 students.

This resources is aimed at KS4 and KS5 art students and explains how Picasso gradually abstracted an image or form, step-by-step in order to abstract and simplify it. The PowerPoint provides a drawing activity with examples and supporting worksheets. Would suit a project or scheme of work involving stylization, abstraction or even Cubism.

This resource contains 3 pre-filled worksheets with keywords that each year group needs to know by the end of their various projects. Keywords are listed and students write in the definitions in their own words. Blank templates are also provided to customize to your own projects and schemes of work.

This is a single page resource created after I made a large scale version as a display in my classroom. It is a clear way to help students understand the meanings attributed and associated with different colours. This can be used for a variety of purposes, but I get students to collage the blank colour wheel in the centre. This could also be laminated and erasable white board markers used to write on to the blank areas of the colour wheel.

This is a double sided resource, made of two separate worksheets and designed to be printed A3 and laminated together. On the first side there is a brief explanation of Mandala patterns, their history, symbolism and meaning. There are also a step-by-step instructions, explaining how to begin drawing a Mandala pattern. The second sheet includes a variety of Mandala patterns to give students ideas and inspiration. Included also is a polar paper template to be used as a guide for drawing out a Mandala pattern.

This is a double sided resource, made of two separate worksheets and designed to be printed A3 and laminated together. On the first there is a brief explanation of Native American Totem Poles, their purpose and symbolism and an activity designed to encourage students to consider the symbolism of animals and their own identity. The second sheet includes a variety of animals drawn, primarily in the Haida style, which is characteristically Native American in its appearance. There are suggestions for how more capable students might extend their work and shown more skill.

This activity explores the principles of positive and negative space using the technique of collage to create a simple mask deign, inspired by the shapes of artefacts found in some African cultures. Included is a step-by-step guide as to how to construct an image and a worksheet of simple black and white drawn examples to help give students ideas.

This resource helps support students in exploring their initial ideas about a project or theme as they begin an art project. This would work well for GCSE and A-Level students at the start of a unit of work, in particular an exam unit.