A great art cover or sub lesson. Students think creatively and turn the circles into different drawings on this one page resource. Includes lesson plan which has full instructions and an extension idea.

Are you fed up with hearing ‘I can’t draw’? Me too! I shall be doing everything I can to change this fixed mindset attitude with my classes and will be using this one page resource to infuse a growth mindset into my students. This resources also includes a page of suggested answers. This makes a great starter or discuss it in class and then set it as a homework.

This super-useful worksheet teaches students the art of cross hatching. It gives two examples, Durer and Da Vinci and asks student to complete two tasks. This would fit into any drawing skills workshop or work as a cover lesson or homework. There are two versions of this one page resource - one which uses the word ‘tones’ and one which uses the word ‘values’. Click on the drawing skills bundle to the right of this resource to buy this with other drawing skills worksheets.

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.

This creative Pointillism Eye project, teaches students about Pointillism, Seurat and optical mixing. It includes everything you need. Ideal for a post-sats project or for Year 7. It starts with Students looking at a PowerPoint on Pointillism focusing on Seurat. (16 slides) It includes a script and looks at: A definition for Pointillism Seurat & Signac How the Impressionists influenced them. Two of Seurats paintings in detail. Pablo Jurado Ruiz, a contemporary artists who used pointillism today. How to mix colours using Pointillism. Then a stage by stage look at how the ‘good example’ (Main picture above) was built up. A Pointillism worksheet enables students practice optical mixing - this also helps create a great display. You then have two choices. Either get your students to draw an eye, (using the eye drawing reference sheet provided) or use the faint eye provided and ask students to add dots over the top. There is a Self Assessment sheets that looks at how closely they have applied their dots and how neatly. (Two on an A4 page) There are suggested extension tasks. Duration: Using faint eye: 2 hrs 5 mins. Drawing own eye: 3 hrs. (There suggested extension tasks could make this a lot longer!) I am always looking to improve my resources, so if you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments box.

Learning Objective: To practice careful observation and detailed drawing. Complete the detail on the blank half of the crab. There are three versions of this. A plain one, one with a title, and one with 8 spaces to add keywords. These keywords could describe the crab. This could fit into a mark making project or a natural forms project.

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.

An excellent 'Close-Ups' worksheet to teach drawing skills. Ideal for a lesson, homework or cover lesson.

Students copy the detail of the sugar skull and then the mirror image of a sugar skull. Ideal to teach drawing skills and to link with Day of Dead festival units of work. Includes a lesson plan.

8 pages of fish images. A total of 22 fish. Ideal for drawing projects.

Don't you find that when you are marking compositions that you are writing the same thing again and again? These stickers address that problem! This set of stickers includes each type of error students make both as a target and as a Question. (I know that in some schools like mine, you have to mark with a question!) Targets and Questions include: annotation, identifying students best design, colour, contrast/tone, links to artists, quality of drawing, and using the space on the page well. These stickers are made to go on Avery L7163 or stickers that are 99.1mm x 38.1mm. In my shop I also have a set of stickers for marking a drawing. Click on my name above to go to my shop. Happy and Speedy Marking

Don't you find you are writing the same thing again and again when you mark drawing? The attached 7 pages of stickers will CUT YOUR MARKING TIME IN HALF as they give a target for the 7 most common mistakes. Stickers include targets for: improving the overall shape, not giving a drawing a dark outline, adding more detail, smoother shading, not working too faintly, not working too small, not smudging work. These stickers are designed to be printed on Avery L7163 or stickers that are 99.1 x 38.1 mm. Should you think of a common mistake that students make that I have missed out email me on scrowther99@gmail.com and I will add it to the selection. Happy Marking!

This three-page colour theory exam, with professional looking front cover and answer sheet, is an editable word document and ideal for end of year exams.  This resource includes: Versions for the UK and USA to allow for different spellings. An editable exam paper that includes 10 questions on primary, secondary, tertiary and complementary colours. Also, tints, shades, warm and cool colours. Colour mixing and harmonious/analogous colours. An editable front cover where there is space for the student’s name and a space for marking. An answer sheet.