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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.
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'.
Sunflower Grid Drawing - Suitable for Van Gogh Projects
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Sunflower Grid Drawing - Suitable for Van Gogh Projects

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This is a one-page, versatile sunflower grid drawing, uploaded with three different titles: Observational Drawing Van Gogh Sunflowers It’s hard to see from the image, but the box on the right has tiny marks so your students can easily draw the grid without any measuring, and rub out the lines at the end should they wish to do so. Excellent for teaching drawing skills. It is a high-resolution image. www.TheArtyTeacher.com
The Circle Game Cover / Sub Lesson
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The Circle Game Cover / Sub Lesson

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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.
Growth Mindset in Art Education - teach drawing
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Growth Mindset in Art Education - teach drawing

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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.
Blooms Taxonomy for Art Question Cards - great literacy starter!
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Blooms Taxonomy for Art Question Cards - great literacy starter!

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Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised I’ve updated my ‘Blooms Taxonomy for Art’ and ‘Blooms Taxonomy Question Cards’ and bundled them together. With this resource you receive: Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised (pictured right) Blooms Question Cards Lesson Plan for Question Cards They both now include the headings: Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Simply print and laminate the questions cards so you can use them again and again. You can even hole punch the corner for easy storage. The lesson plan details a group questioning activity to stimulate discussion which can be used with any artwork so this lesson can integrate into any project. There are versions for the UK & US with the different spellings of analysing and colour.
Teaching Cross Hatching (Drawing Skills)
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Teaching Cross Hatching (Drawing Skills)

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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.
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.
Pointillism Eye Project
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Pointillism Eye Project

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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.
Close-Ups Homework Worksheet
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Close-Ups Homework Worksheet

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This is a really useful drawing resource as it teaching your student essential drawing skills. Ideal for Close-up and/or Natural Forms projects. Cut down on marking as this one sheet could be used for 3 homework’s. Or do this in class and use 3 different media. www.TheArtyTeacher.com
Complete the Crab Mark Making (Animals)
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Complete the Crab Mark Making (Animals)

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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.
Form Time Activities - Ideal End of Term Fun
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Form Time Activities - Ideal End of Term Fun

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I know! I know! You hardly ever have a spare minute in form with all those diaries to sign or check and all those letters to give out! However, if you ever have a spare moment here are 14 fun and/or educational activities to keep them busy. Each are 5 to 10 minutes long. Activities include discussion, word and maths puzzles, guess the artwork, name the flag, recognise the logo and many more! All the instructions and answers are in the notes section of the PowerPoint and each activity includes an objective so you are inspection ready! This took hours to make! I hope you find these useful, and if you do, please leave some positive feedback. Enjoy!
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.
Marking Art & Design Compositions - Stickers to Cut Your Marking Time in Half!
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Marking Art & Design Compositions - Stickers to Cut Your Marking Time in Half!

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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
Marking a Drawing with a Target - Stickers to Save Time when Marking and Assessing
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Marking a Drawing with a Target - Stickers to Save Time when Marking and Assessing

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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!