Continuous Line Drawings – Daffodils
Continuous line drawing is an exciting technique that produces fluid, expressive, detailed drawings. Included in this download: There are many more drawing art lessons on The Arty Teacher website.
This one-page worksheet explains warm and cool colours and tasks students to colour their faces in warm or cool colours. This worksheet has two versions: one with the spelling ‘colour’ and the other with ‘colour’. Great for injecting some fun, colour theory into your sub/cover lessons. Please note that this worksheet has no lesson plan, […]
Psychedelic Pattern Vinyl Records! During this project students paint a vinyl record with a psychedelic pattern. I ran this as a very successful, popular art club. It made a wonderful display. Part of its success was my method for getting the pattern onto the vinyl record. Included in this download: Materials required: Old vinyl records. […]
These chiaroscuro portrait sketches are a challenging task and definitely for your more able students. The worksheet explains what chiaroscuro means and asks your students to sketch the portraits aiming to use lights and darks to create depth and drama. Included in this download: Materials required: An HB pencil to start sketching, a soft pencil […]
This is an exciting, creative project where students will create a stippled mixed media beetle. During this task, they will learn: Included in this download: Materials required: cardboard, old fiction books, scissors, glue, fine liners. There are many more mixed media lessons and insect inspired lessons on The Arty Teacher website.
You may already be aware of the truly exceptional virtual tour of Frida Kahlo’s blue house which you can see here. This handout has 10 questions that students answer as they follow the tour, designed to make them really look and engage with what they see. The 11th question asks students to research Kahlo’s life […]
I set up The Arty Teacher because I have a passion for my subject that I want to share with other art teachers around the world.
I have been a high school art teacher for over 20 years, so I understand what it’s like to be in front of a class of students, often with very different abilities and attitudes.
I wanted to develop resources that would help teachers to bring out the best in every student in every class. I also wanted to free-up staff from time-consuming lesson preparation to let them focus instead on delivering exciting, motivating, dynamic lessons, supported by excellent resources.