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.
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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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.
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 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.
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 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 range of projects to teach imaginative approaches and Art skills, as well as to enable students to learn about the lives of famous artists and their approaches. These projects are perfect for distance learning and include all a huge range of visual resources to guide students through each task
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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