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This 'Mixed Media Bird Skull' download guides your students through creating a mixed media artwork using pencil, pen, instant coffee and Quink Ink.  What I like about this resource, is that it can dramatically improve students' work.  This download includes: A 7-slide PowerPoint (Pictured above) The same images on a...

This 'Colour Theory Watercolour Lesson' can be used as a cover/sub lesson or as an introduction to harmonious/analogous and contrasting colours. Students will: Experiment with selecting three harmonious/analogous and one contrasting colour to create a colour scheme. Paint their selected colours using watercolour onto the patterned worksheet above. This download...

What do you do with early finishers?  Many of us run animal art projects, and these mini animal grid drawings make ideal extension tasks or homework.  Print these on good quality drawing paper and then cut into four.  Be ready for those early finishers! There are more art extension tasks and more grid...

Painting a Skull with Acrylic is a download that has everything you need to support your students with learning how to paint with acrylic.  This download includes: A step-by-step guide within a 9 slide PowerPoint. (Pictured above). Talk this through with students before they start.  The text is editable. The same...

Three teddies grid drawings.  Ideal for teaching drawing and still life projects. There is a huge collection of grid drawings on The Arty Teacher.

A Fernand Léger word search. There are many more art word searches on The Arty Teacher website.

Art Teachers - you know what to do with this! Gradate watercolour or coloured pencils.  Practise blending pastels, trace them, collage them!  You're only limited by your own imagination! This is a one-page resource.  There is a black version and a light grey version included in the download. When you register on...

When completing this 'Drawing Close-Ups' worksheet, students draw fish scales, a can lid and the end of a corn cob.  Ideal to practice those observational drawing skills! There are lots of close-ups themed resources on The Arty Teacher.

This 'Adobe Fresco Line Portrait Inspired by Fernand Léger' is a unit of work where students research Fernand Léger, draw digitally and then create Léger inspired surfaces to print their digital drawing onto.  Students will: Research Fernand Léger and create a research page. Photograph themselves or each other, thinking about...

This 'Adobe Fresco Line Portrait with Experimental Surfaces' is a unit of work where students draw digitally and then create surfaces with different media and then print their digital drawing onto the exciting surfaces.  Students will: Photograph themselves or each other, thinking about focus, background and lighting. Drawing digitally using...