The Arty Teacher

Learning About Colour Schemes is a resource where students use the colour wheel to create different colour schemes in the patterned sections using coloured pencil.  They are asked to create the following colour schemes: Harmonious or Analogous Complementary Split Complementary Triadic Monochromatic It introduces your students to some essential colour...

A simple end-of-term filler - Easter Eggs to Colour.  Why not colour and collage them to make Easter cards?

Pysanky Eggs Art Resource.  A useful one-page resource that illustrates Pysanky Eggs. There is a traditional tale about Pysanky eggs here on Youtube called 'Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco'  It would be lovely to play in the background whilst your class completed Easter activities.

Zentangle Easter Eggs is a resource where your students create zentangle patterns within the egg shapes.  This 3-page resource includes: One sheet of completed eggs for ideas and inspiration. One worksheet of completely blank eggs for those who are confident to create their own patterns from scratch. One worksheet of eggs which...

This 'Drawing Reptile Eyes' resource provides your students with a real challenge! My students have found these lizard eyes very appealing and there is lots of detail and values to include. This one-page resource comes in color with instructions to use colored pencil, and in black and white with instructions...

This Grayson Perry crossword will mean your students have to look up the facts and will prevent the type of research where they cut and paste chunks of information from the internet!  There are 9 questions and this one-page resource comes as an A4 page and also a version with...

This bundle groups together 5 Fantastic Leonardo Da Vinci art resources.  These build to create all you need to deliver a #Leonardo500 project! Save over 50% This includes two Leonardo grid drawings, a Leonardo Artist Analysis, a Leonardo 'Monstrous Faces' drawing and a Leonardo crossword.  You can click on the...

This one-page Leonardo Da Vinci Artist Analysis asks students to copy the anatomical drawing.  The exact wording is as follows. An ‘artist analysis’ is simply copying an artwork. You can learn so much from going through the process the artist has. Coffee or tea stain the bottom rectangle and then...

This Leonardo Da Vinci Grid Drawing is a great way to teach your students about Da Vinci and how to draw.  The clear image shows quality-of-line, direction-of-line and a range of values; all things you want your students to include in their drawings.  The image is one of Da Vinci’s...

This Graffiti image bank is just one of the many image banks on The Arty Teacher.  There are over 70 slides and they are grouped as follows: General Graffiti Whole sides of buildings Stencilled Graffiti and Collage Hyper-Realistic Environments Lastly, there is one slide at the end which asks the...