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I work in one of the leading independent schools in the country where our latest inspection report achieved the highest level of 'excellent' in all areas. I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.

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I work in one of the leading independent schools in the country where our latest inspection report achieved the highest level of 'excellent' in all areas. I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.
Positive Thinking Assembly
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Positive Thinking Assembly

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This assembly provides your students with strategies to think more positively. It gives a metaphor that positivity is like a huge jar of nutella, and they can dip their finger in whenever they wish to pull out some positivity! It covers the following strategies: Smiling and Laughter practicing Gratitude Positive Affirmations Avoiding Negative People Doing something kind Music Exercise. It’s a fun assembly that uses humor and facts to convey it’s message. I got lots of positive feed back from students and staff after delivering this assembly! Approx 15 - 20 mins long depending on your speed. It includes a poem that you could take out if you wished to shorten it. Also included are a Positive Thinking Poster, and come Positive Thinking Nutella jars to laminate and stick around your school to remind people to ‘Think Positive’. (Staff Included!)
Colour Theory Art Lesson
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Colour Theory Art Lesson

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This colour schemes art lesson asks your students to colour the patterned circles using harmonious or analogous, complementary and monochromatic colours. There are versions for the US and the UK with the different spellings of colour/color and the different use of harmonious/analogous. With this download you receive: The one-page resource pictured above. A colour wheel (One on a page) A color wheel (Two on a page)
Gallery Visit / Gallery Education
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Gallery Visit / Gallery Education

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This worksheet has been designed for gallery visits. There is a space in the middle to make a sketch. It asks the following questions: Your Name Title of Artwork Name of Artist What have you looked at? What media has the artist used? what colours has the artist used? What kind of marks or techniques has the artist used? What kind of shapes and forms can you see? How does the artwork relate to other artworks in the exhibition? How does the artwork make you feel? The same worksheet is uploaded as a .jpg and pdf. I'm not sure why you can only see the top part of the pdf. When you download it, it is all there - I have checked!! Keywords: gallery visit, gallery education, analysing art, visiting galleries, gallery activities.
What is a Composition?
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What is a Composition?

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Every child should receive this presentation in KS3 or 4. It covers what composition is and looks at: Balance Contrast Focus Movement Pattern Rhythm Scale and Proportion Unity There is a script within the presentation which you should print off before presenting. The presentation is animated. There are 10 slides but because of the animation students will look at 24 works of art. Click on my name above to see over 300 Art Resources in my shop.
Gargoyle Grid Drawings
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Gargoyle Grid Drawings

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3 gargoyle grid drawings which are excellent for teaching detailed, tonal drawing. There are two versions of each grid drawing. One with the grid in place and one where there are tiny marks around the edge of the square so that students can draw their own lines.
Sentence Starters for Annotating Sketchbooks
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Sentence Starters for Annotating Sketchbooks

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Support your students when annotating their sketchbooks with these sentence starters. Areas covered include: Artist Research Pages Experimenting with Different Media Content Development Personal Response Reviewing Compositions This resource also includes some good examples of annotation in the black boxes. Click on my name above to see over 300 Art Teacher Resources.
Close-Ups of Sweets
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Close-Ups of Sweets

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This drawing sweets resource could be used for a close-ups project, a food art project or just for drawing practice. The high resolution, detailed drawings of gummy bears provide a challenge for your students. Print in colour and ask your students to work in coloured pencil, or print in black and white and work in pencil. This one-page resource has two versions – one with the spelling ‘colour’ and the word ‘tone’, the other with the spelling ‘color’ and the word ‘value’. Other key words are Line, accuracy, shading and highlights. Make links to artists: Sarah Graham, Roberto Bernardi or Daryl Gortner.
Create Tone Using Mark Making
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Create Tone Using Mark Making

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Students create tone using a variety of different mark making techniques. Great to incorporate into your schemes of work or to use as a cover lesson or homework task. Click on 'View as part of Bundle' to see my Mark Making Bundle!
Converse Shoe Grid Drawing (Cover Sub Lesson)
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Converse Shoe Grid Drawing (Cover Sub Lesson)

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Encourage beautiful drawing with this converse grid drawing. Ideal as part of any drawing module or this would make an excellent homework or cover lesson to improve drawing skills. It comes with two lesson plans which are exactly the same apart from one is titled 'Cover Lesson' and one is titled 'Sub Lesson'.
Drawing Fruit Lesson
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Drawing Fruit Lesson

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This drawing fruit worksheet is a must have for fruit and vegetable projects. High-resolution images work well in colour and when photocopied into black and white. Use it as a sub lesson or integrate it into fruit or natural forms projects. The accompanying lesson plan is written as a sub lesson and includes a scripted paragraph for a non-specialist.
Pointillism Worksheet
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Pointillism Worksheet

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There are two versions of this Pointillism worksheet. The three eyes at the top of the page are good examples of what you want your students to create. Both worksheets ask students to create a scale of tone using dots. The first then asks students to draw and use pointillism to create an eye. The second, easier worksheet, asks students to add dots over a very faint image of an eye. This could fit into a pointillism scheme of work (perhaps when looking at Seurat) or be useful as a homework or cover lesson. Keywords: Pointillism, Drawing, Seurat, Tone, Mark Making, Drawing Eyes.
Assessing a Drawing Rubric
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Assessing a Drawing Rubric

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A grid to help assess an observational drawing. The grid looks at line, tone, shading, detail and accuracy. This could be used for teacher, peer or self assessment. Click on my name above to see over 300 Art Resources in my shop.
Georgia O' Keeffe Presentation
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Georgia O' Keeffe Presentation

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This useful presentation could be used to start many different projects but was written for a scheme of work that focuses on 'Close-Ups'. A script is included as part of the PowerPoint. See my 'Georgia O'Keeffe Close-Ups Project' in my shop which includes lesson plans, worksheets, assessment sheets and much more.
Georgia O' Keeffe PowerPoint
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Georgia O' Keeffe PowerPoint

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This useful presentation could be used to start many different projects but was written for a scheme of work that focuses on ‘Close-Ups&’.\nAfter this presentation you could draw close-ups of natural forms and then turn the drawings into paintings.
Artists Listed by Theme
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Artists Listed by Theme

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This document includes a link to a list of artists, photographers and ceramicists listed by theme. Each artist name leads to a website or google search. This is an excellent, free resource for teachers and exam students. Themes include landscape, portraits, natural forms, death, altered books, animals in art, buildings, city-scapes, coastal scenes, close-ups, collage dance, everyday objects, family, identity, machinery and many more! This is an ever growing list!