Artists

Artist Duncan Cameron creates the sort of sketchbook pages that we’d love our students to create.  Exquisite drawings in different media, on different surfaces explore the subject matter from a range of viewpoints.  His pages reveal an artist who really investigates and explores his subject matter. Like many artists, he captures the world around him.  […]

Below is a list of artists who paint or draw hair. From Leonardo da Vinci to artists who are alive and working today. If you haven’t yet had a student ask you how to paint or draw hair, it is just a matter of time. This challenging skill can be approached in a variety of […]

If you are wondering where you can find good examples of artist research pages, you’ve come to the right place.  It is great to have a collection of pages to show your students to inspire them and now you can just send them the link to this blog post.  Thanks to all the talented art […]

Student artwork inspired by artist Sarah Graham regularly brightens up our social media feeds.  Her hyper-realistic paintings of brightly coloured sweets, stacks of liquorice allsorts, Brighton rock, shiny marbles, plastic toys and her signature Chupa Chups are clearly capturing the imaginations of art teachers and students alike.  I went to her studios in the south […]

What is a natural form?  A natural form is an object found in nature that has not been changed or altered. It is still in its natural state.  For example, flowers, leaves, seedpods, bones, skeletons, feathers, birds, fish, animals etc. ‘Natural Forms’ is a favourite topic for art teachers to pursue.  The flowing lines within […]

Artist Klari Reis creates art in Petri dishes.  Like the cultures you would expect to find there, the daubs of colour bloom, bleeding paint seems frozen in time, whisps and tendrils reach across the glossy surfaces reminding us of past science lessons and images from under the microscope.  The desire to peer closer is inevitable. […]