This Mixed Media Beetle Artwork teaches your students what mixed media is and the value of processes and layering. This download includes: Materials required: Acrylic (tints and white), fine liners and sharpies, white pens, pencils, brown packing paper or cardboard, brushes. There are many more insect art lessons and mixed media art lessons on The […]
Drawing the shiny packaging of these sweets presents a fantastic challenge for your students. The written guidance on the resource will help your students tackle the task. This download includes: Two versions of the one-page download. One with titled ‘Drawing Candy’ the other, ‘Drawing Sweets’. Take your pick! A lesson plan written for a non-specialist. […]
As well as opening up discussions about using recycled materials, this Recycled Christmas Tree art lesson, will teach your students valuable 3D making skills. Included in this download: Materials required: Magazines or thick junk mail, cardboard box, cereal box, clear sticky tape, a long-armed compass. (Find a long-armed compass on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk #Ad) There […]
8 Pop Art grid drawings. There are two versions of each page; one where the grid is in place (pictured here) and one where students rule their own lines using the tiny marks around the square. These are ideal to make connections to artist Roy Lichtenstein. There are many more grid drawings on The Arty […]
What could be nicer than thinking about what we are grateful for, and then responding with drawing? This one-page download has 6 creative drawing prompts. 4 lists on a page. You may wish to use this for Thanksgiving. There are other Thanksgiving art resources on The Arty Teacher website.
What colour is ‘elephants breath’? This fun starter activity, asks students to guess the colour of paint manufacturers paint names. (These are household paint names, not artists paint names.) There are 8 paint names to guess that increase in difficulty. Of course, they are all subjective! This is an engaging way to start a lesson […]
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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.
