The Arty Teacher

How to paint bubbles? Watercolor Bubbles is an excellent resource to teach your students watercolour techniques such as working wet on wet and also about wax resist.  This 6-page download includes: A two-page lesson plans that includes a detailed introduction, demonstration, development, troubleshooting, plenary, extension activity and keywords. Two versions...

This three-page colour theory exam, with professional looking front cover and answer sheet, is an editable word document and ideal for end of year exams.  This resource includes: Versions for the UK and USA to allow for different spellings. An editable exam paper that includes 10 questions on primary, secondary,...

How to Paint Skin Tones, worksheet and lesson plan. This two-page resource is designed to challenge your students to mix paint to create the different skin colours that they can see.  It is an excellent way to teach this difficult skill as it is learning through experimenting.  They should end...

Analysing an artwork is a key skill for students. Teach your students how to analyse an artwork using this one-page worksheet.  It uses Blooms Taxonomy to create higher-order thinking questions that cover describing, understanding, analysing, evaluating and creating. There are two versions of this resource, one with the word analyze...

Drawing a collage! This exciting unit of work asks your students to create a collage and then draw it.  Not only that, it asks your students to work in a variety of different media.  Just press print to deliver this creative project!  This download includes: A written unit of work...

Wouldn't it be great to have a list of inspiring art Instagram accounts to follow?  Well, here it is!  Many of your students use Instagram, so why not encourage them to soak up more art?  This one-page resource is split into 3 categories: Up and coming artists.  These are my...

[embed]https://youtu.be/jWAi5WnzzjA[/embed] This short Christmas art project creates a beautiful artwork and enables you to teach about hot and cold colours and how they can be used to create contrast. It also gives your students the opportunity to practise gradating pencil and they learn how shading can give a sense of...

3 Christmas holly grid drawings.  Don't be a Grinch!  When your class asks if you're going to be doing something Christmassy, say yes!  With this resource, you get 3 different grid drawings and two versions of each one.  One with the lines in place, and one where there are little...

We all teach portrait drawing units of work, so it's good to have a portrait sub/cover lesson in your bank of resources.  This drawing eyes sub lesson is ideal.  It's clear step-by-step instructions and lesson plan which includes a script for a non-specialist has everything you need. There are many...

This comprehensive Mona Lisa grid drawing comes with the following: A worksheet that explains the process your students should go through and introduces the term 'artist analysis'.  This worksheet includes a line drawing and a colour copy of the Mona Lisa.  There are two versions of this worksheet to allow...