A cover lesson activity sheet suitable for KS3 classes. Exploring the work and style of popular contemporary illustrator, Charly Clements. The task and success criteria challenge students to select an inspirational woman and illustrator her in Clements’ style. The task could be adapted to produce a self portrait or other portrait figure.

A Powerpoint exploring the theme of jungle through typography and illustration. The slides begin with a step by step guide to creating a leafy letter using Photopea. Students then develop an illustrated book cover for the Jungle Book using Henri Rousseau’s paintings as inspiration. Originally used during online learning, there are differentiated tasks to consider resources found at home and online accessibilty.

Presentation guiding students through a digital drawing of Frida Kahlo and subsequent inspirational poster design. The project celebrates Frida and her iconic style, rather than her paintings, but does offer some narrative and video links to her personal story and background. Although a digital project, this could be adapted to traditional drawings.

A unit of work centered around the British Pop artist, Peter Blake. The slides introduce students to the Pop Art movement before directing a self portrait in the style of the iconic artist. Students will also consider collage and modern popular culture whilst creating their own ‘Sources for Pop Art’. The final task is a cross curricular challenge to produce a collaged vinyl record design, in the style of Blake’s ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band’, depicting 10 key events in History.

A set of tasks used during the original distance learning. The three tasks (and extensions) direct each student into research, pastiche and caricature of a given artist. Students were assigned a prominent artist from the past 150 years and tasked with responding to the tasks. Once complete, the work can be displayed in a timeline format or placed onto a website to aid with Art History understanding. Suitable for KS3 and KS2. List of artists used and tracking feedback sheet included, but can be modified.

Mini GCSE Photography project exploring contemporary food photography. Emphasis on students exploring lighting and camera angles to capture work in the style of: Vanessa McKeown Albert B Balein Ryan MacEachern Slides include analysis questions and diagrams to support photoshoots. Final Ryan MacEachern tasks allows students to develop more conceptual outcomes, linking research into food types into data driven photoshoots.

Presentation to introduce Hokusai’s The Great Wave and inspire students to work together to create a recycled version of the piece. Includes an example from a Year 6 group, as well as 4 other famous paintings completed by previous groups.

Introduction to oil painting pack. Including lesson plan, cut out card activity and template for applying skin tones to a portrait. Used for Y12 but may be adapted to suit acrylic paint.

Creating patterned cultural tiles in the style of Jill Ricci. 2 x worksheets for students to create patterned tiles based on a chosen country. One sheet offers a shape for students to complete work in, cut around and place together as a class whilst the other can be extended into a Photoshop piece.

Artist research analysis frame sheet, helping students to discuss the work of artists and designers at A Level. Sheet includes suggested vocabulary and written structure.

Worksheet introducing students to the work of Lucy Stephen, who creates city themed designs inside a typography letter shape. The resource also includes an A-Z sheet. Simply crop the letter you wish students to complete and print out A5 for the class to complete. Example also attached using this method with B for Birmingham!

An overview of basic Photoshop techinques to enhance the use of typography in GCSE and A Level design. The PDF offers instruction, hints and tips to help add to images.

A set of 3 worksheets suitable for Art & Design cover lessons. Students are asked to alter a famous painting in the style of grime artist Richie Velazquez. The worksheets use the paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earing Mona Lisa Frida Kahlo You can always replace the paintings on the sheet, or use student photographs instead!

2 x Greek Mythology grid drawing worksheets. A photograph of a statue of Medusa and one of Athena. Students are asked to copy the grid lines onto their A4 piece of paper and copy box for box from the sheet. A good activity for scaling images and building confidence with portrait drawing, which can be used as a starting point for further exploration into Greek Mythology.

Set of resources challenging students to design their own coffee cup sleeve in the style of artist Lei Xue. Xue mixes traditional Chinese Willow patterns with contemporary, pop art references. Students are asked to create their own take on this design. The set of sheets include instructions, examples and references for Lei Xue’s work. A Y7 example of the task and the coffee sleeve template. This task can be extended to develop the design and printed to actually create coffee cup wraps or reusable cups. Please note, this is a worksheet and template pack only. No presentation is included.

A project exploring Matisse’s works and his cut out style. Students link his technique to the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic games, creating a contemporary minimal sports poster. Extending the technique, students progress onto the work of Bernardo Henning, who has influences of Matisse’s shapes and mark making within his designs. The project can be completed by hand, or digitally using Photoshop.

A poster highlighting 12 ways which Graphic Art students can try to improve their handmade typography.

Short document which helps students to discuss the work of Sophie Calle and encourage a series of images in her style. Originally used last year during lockdown, it can be adapted as an ongoing homework task to photograph home life over a period of time.

An easy to use document which helps students consider the links between their artist research and analysis. Originally designed for EAL students, the easy questions help students to structure their annotation and analysis. Before beginning their next set of artist responses, they are to consider what techniques and styles to develop and use from their original starting point.