Ask your students to create different tones/values, going from light to dark, across the sections within the paintbrush handle. (A tonal scale (UK) or value scale (US)) Either give your students one paintbrush to shade which would make an excellent starter, or give a student the entire worksheets and ask them to work with different […]
Drawing portraits is on most art curriculums. These 4 pages of ‘features of the face’ can be used as a sub lesson or will really advance your students drawing within a portrait project. They make beautiful sketchbook pages. I have updated these to be more culturally diverse and to include a wider age range. It […]
These appealing lizards are ideal to teach mark making. 4 different resources give you lots of options. Lizards Mark Marking This resource shows your students lovely lizards and has lots of boxes to copy the marks into. Try letting your students experiment with a range of media. (pencil, fine-liner, stick and ink, charcoal etc) Lizards […]
I have used this more than any of my other worksheets! This is a brilliant sheet for your classes when you are first introducing the idea of tone and you want to teach some basis skills. In each letter your students need to shade, getting darker as they go across the page. Alternatively, you could […]
These 12 tag shaped drawing tasks will give your students choice, keep them busy and provide them with a challenge. Print them in colour or black and white. I cut them out and have them pegged to a board which makes an appealing display/visible resource in my classroom. You can then just tell students to […]
This is a classic homework which asks your students to create a page of mark making. There is an A4 version and I’ve also put 4 on a page to cut down on photocopying. The WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) is for you to show in class as a good example.
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