Mark Making

Mark Making Animals!  These delightful animal images by illustrator Olga Gamynina are ideal for teaching your students mark making.  This download includes: A page with 4 images and information about Olga Gamynina. 3 worksheets where students complete the missing half of the animal. This is ideal to use when you are teaching your students about […]

Using this ‘Mark Making Cubes’ project is a great way to teach mark making and results in a striking display.  Each student applies gradated mark making to a cube net and then creates a cube.  A great way to introduce maths (using a net) into the art curriculum.  Included in this download is: A detailed […]

This drawing texture resource asks students to draw textures they have observed within the letters of the word ‘Texture’.  It’s an ideal activity to integrate the formal elements into your teaching.

This presentation and lesson plan combine to make a superb cross-curricular art/music lesson. Mark Making to music is a wonderfully creative lesson.  View the presentation with your students to look at mark making in figurative and abstract artworks. The presentation includes a script with questioning. Then use the lesson plan to complete marking making to […]

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 […]

There are two versions of this Pointillism worksheet. The three eyes at the top of the page are good examples of what you want your students to create. Both worksheets ask students to create a scale of tone using dots. The first then asks students to draw and use pointillism to create an eye. The […]