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This GCSE Art Project is the first I teach when students start in Year 10 (KS4). Essentially, I wanted to develop and enhance the range of skills that students have been taught at KS3, enabling them to master and improve in a way that was engaging yet simple to achieve. There are some ‘essential’ GCSE […]
Read More GCSE Art Project – Skills TrainingI designed this GCSE art drypoint etching project with the intention of having students understand the different applications of mark-making drawing techniques, and getting an insight into a simple but effective printing process. The drypoint etching technique is one of my favourites as it is so versatile and can be done without any specialist printing […]
Read More GCSE Art Project: Drypoint EtchingMy GCSE Art students have been working on an art project titled The Blue Planet. We designed this project to be open-ended so students could work independently and really stretch their ideas. The outcomes were fantastic and showed a great range of techniques, skills and ideas which were realised to a really high standard. We […]
Read More GCSE Art Scheme of Work: The Blue PlanetThe aim of this GCSE Landscape and Mark Making art project was designed for students to explore a range of painted mark making techniques, then choose the most suitable to develop into their landscape ideas. The full scheme of work for this GCSE Art Landscape & Mark-Making Project is available on TES here OR on […]
Read More GCSE Art Scheme of Work: Landscape & Mark MakingI have previously posted a series of lessons explaining how students have studied various ways of making marks. This is part of a landscape scheme of work, where students will create a landscape based on their memories. This was a GCSE art and design scheme of work, and you can find the other lessons for […]
Read More KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 6]I am working on a project with KS4 Art & Design pupils with the intention of creating an abstract landscape based on childhood memories. So far we have explored some mark-making techniques in watercolour and ink: Dashes (creating tone) Pointillism (blending colours into one another) Dashes and daubs (creating movement) Ink (using tools such as […]
Read More KS4 ART & DESIGN: MARK MAKING [LESSON 5]Following on from our previous lesson in mark making, which focussed on using the paintbrush in a new way and trying different pointillist techniques, this lesson is aimed at developing those skills. On the board I showed some work by Van Gogh and questioned the group about how the painting made them feel, how the […]
Read More KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 4]This is my third lesson from my GCSE Landscape Painting Project. After our introduction to mark-making using watercolours in lesson 2, we moved on to looking at Pointillism as a technique (one of my favourites) 😊 For this lesson I introduced new artists to look at then set out the objectives. Students ended up producing […]
Read More KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 3]KS4. Second lesson in mark-making and painting using watercolours.
Read More KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 2]KS4. First lesson in a new painting project exploring mark-making.
Read More KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 1]
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