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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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
Project that goes through the planning process of creating a surreal teapot, mug, or vessel. The powerpoint resources have examples of work by surreal sculpture artists, both contemporary and from Art history. The resources also have many examples of surreal teapots and guide students through designing their own teapot or surreal vessel to be created in clay.
The homework booklet that accompanies the project covers drawing and adding tone to 3D shapes and observational drawing aspect to support the project.
The project would suit students from years 7 - 10.
Six powerpoints containing 453 slides covering 202 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 in 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
Animals and Nature Artists – powerpoint with 73 slides covering 34 artists
Landscape and Cityscape Artists – powerpoint with 57 slides covering 26 artists
People and Portrait Artists – powerpoint with 151 slides covering 69 artists
Still Life and Object Artists – powerpoint with 78 slides covering 32 artists
Typographers and Graphic designers – powerpoint with 61 slides covering 28 artists
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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.
A series of two abstract art projects that work together to teach two approaches to abstract art and focus on the work of the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Stella, Beatriz Milhazes, Sarah Morris, Picasso, Mondrian, and Cezanne. The projects would be ideal for KS3 students and together would take between 12 and 16 hours. The projects are easy to follow and are full of resources, students could even follow the plan through distance- learning.
A complete project for Art, design and technology covering about 10 lessons. The project takes students through designing a logo, designing a font, then creating carrier bag for a shop they choose themselves.
The project could be used for KS3 but could also be used to start a piece of GCSE coursework for Art and Design or Graphic design.
There are opportunities to analyse logo designs and look at the evolution of logo designs alongside the designing work.
The project includes lots of visual resources and clear step by step instructions and could even be used by a non specialist teacher. The powerpoint has 94 slides.
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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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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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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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Help for a new head of an Art and Design department: a calendar of all of the tasks that are essential to the smooth running of the department. These include when to make orders, what actions are needed for exam groups and exam boards and when they are needed, when to focus on the management of staff, and when to plan for trips in the year among many others.
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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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 2D Abstract Art project that would take between 4 and 6 lessons and could even be the basis of a much longer project based on the work of Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Cezanne. Students create a number of drawings of teapots and still life, then they spend time changing the shapes, forms, and colours, and add pattern to turn those initial drawings into abstract Art. Students are encouraged to abstract the shapes etc. as much as they wish and it is reinforced that there isn’t a wrong answer when it comes to Abstract Art.
This project could be used to teach KS3 students or KS4 students.
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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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A painting and collage project based on the artist Loui Jover’s work where students create a mixed media piece based on an observational drawing of an eye. The painting involves dripping and splattering brightly coloured paint over a monochromatic eye. ** If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks**
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
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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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.
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.
