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.
17 outstanding outstanding Art and Design projects and lessons for years 7 -13, entire library for busy and successful Art department, £78.50 when bought separately!
These projects help to teach imaginative approaches and Art skills, as well as to enable students to learn about the lives of famous artists and their approaches. They include a huge range of visual resources to guide students through each task
A fun and engaging project for students to create characters in the style of Graphic designer, Jon Burgerman. Student will explore imaginative and original ways of creating character designs, then they will create an original piece of work. The powerpoint has detailed step by step instructions and a great quantity of visual examples for a project that should take between 6 and 8 lessons. If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks
A range of projects based on surrealism that would be perfect for distance learning. Each project builds creative and imaginative approaches to creating art as well as learning about the lives and art of some of the surrealists including Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Leszek Kostuj, Lora Zombie, Johanna Goodman and Matthias Jung. Each project include a vast array of visual resources and plenty of detailed guidance.
A frame for creating a written piece of work critically analysing a work of Art. Aimed at KS4 and KS5 students. The resource features in depth questions to answer and sentence starters as well as ideas to extend the content and subject specific vocabulary.
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Loads of templates and resources to assist you in running a successful Art and Design department. 12 resources worth over £33 if bought separately.
Resources to cut time, visual resources for the department, resources to show off what you do in detail for OFSTED.
For Art department heads and Art department leads: an example of a visual curriculum road map/pathway for an Art and Design department. OFSTED love it as a visual resource for staff, students and visitors to quickly see the path of the curriculum and how it fits together and builds from one project to another. Use it as a template but make it your own including your own department’s schemes of learning. At my own department we have printed a copy to A1 for each classroom and for the corridor in the department.** If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks**
QUALITY resources to guide students in writing about pieces of Artwork for GCSE and A Level. Creating in depth essays covering comparisons, time-lines of the artist, content, form, mood, processes and much more. Essays written using these resources have been praised by examiners every year at moderation.
Extensive homework projects for KS3 and GCSE, each one guiding students through research and copying famous artists’ works and then creating their own pastiche
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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An Art project based on the artist Keith Haring aimed at KS3 or KS4 students. The project will last between 10 and 15 hours and includes aspects of figure drawing using correct proportions, research on the artist Keith Haring, a short section on Henri Matisse and his figure cut out pieces of Art. Students will end the project with a final piece of Art based on a theme taken from one of Keith Haring’s pieces. The project includes quality worksheets for drawing figures in correct proportions and a quality biography of Keith Haring.
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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.
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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QUALITY resource to guide students in writing in detail about pieces of Artwork for GCSE and A Level. Students will create an in depth essay covering comparisons, time-lines of the artist, content, form, mood, processes and much more. All done in using the easy to remember acronym, AWESOME.
A - about the Artist, W - what’s in the picture, E - elements of the picture, S - story created, O - other artists’ work, M - method and media, E - explain your opinion
Essays written using these resources have been praised by examiners every year at moderation.
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 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.
Tried and tested GCSE coursework project for generating and refining original surreal ideas for a piece of Art. Developed to be perfect for distance learning including a 29 page booklet with everything students need. A 127 slide powerpoint accompanies the booklet with the same visual examples and tasks. There is a massive range of surreal artworks included in the project as well as links to surreal videos and an overview of the Art movement of Surrealism. This project contains a good range of tasks to develop interesting ideas and refine/develop them and has regularly achieved grade 9s with GCSE students at my school. It contains many student examples including a full GCSE project at grade 9. This project could easily be adapted for year 10 or even KS3. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review, thanks :)
A sheet to guide Art students through a thorough written comparison of two Artworks. This would mostly suit pieces of Fine art but could be for painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, photography, or could be adapted for video. It is aimed at high level GCSE students or A level, to aid them in the written parts of their coursework or exam prep work.
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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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An assessment sheet that can be very easily adapted for any project of series of skills. Teacher assessment consists of ticks against different skills with space for comments if needed. The sheet includes space for peer/self assessment and there is a place for an improved grade/level once improvements have been made to the piece of work.
7 WEEK SAMPLE 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.
IN THE FULL RESOURCE, 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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Vision statements for both an outstanding secondary Art and Design Department and our feeder primary schools. These are the vision statements that we use and have developed over ten years.
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