Jennilie Brewster

For my Landscape and Mark Making project at KS4, I am asking pupils to create landscapes from memory. We have been exploring mark making, tone and how artists create movement or atmosphere. We are about to move onto creating our own landscapes from memory using the techniques we’ve looked at. I have been looking for […]

VR in the Art Classroom (with Google Cardboard)

Thinking about how to use technology in the classroom has never been more important and that’s no different for us art teachers! Despite assumptions by some that students can just ‘draw a picture’… I have found that using technology in the art classroom can be a fantastic way of engaging boys too. I’m really into […]

Creating Texture with Acrylic Paint [Impasto]

As part of the GCSE Art course I am teaching, my Y10 class have already explored a range of mark-making techniques to use on their landscape project. Whilst still mark-making, I have filed Impasto under ‘creating texture’ as the aim of this lesson was to show students how thick, heavy, tactile surfaces are just as important […]

Using Plickers in the Creative Arts Classroom

Plickers is a tool designed for teachers to be able to quickly assess pupils’ knowledge/understanding, making use of the latest technology. The Plickers site says: Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices As a trainee teacher of art, I have been looking […]

KS4 ART & DESIGN: MARK MAKING [LESSON 5]

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 […]

KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 4]

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 […]

Jerry Wilkerson

I was looking for an artist inspired by food and came across Jerry Wilkerson, a modern pointillist artist! I am using this food artist as inspiration to use in my KS4 art project exploring mark making. Although we are working on landscapes, the techniques are still relevant. It was good to be able to discuss […]

KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 3]

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 […]

KS4 Art & Design: Mark Making [Lesson 2]

KS4. Second lesson in mark-making and painting using watercolours.

Cy Twombly

I used Cy Twombly as an artist link in my first lesson on exploring mark-making with my Year 10 Art & Design class.