See the creative process in living colour! Check out this gallery to watch this Year 6 drawing, created as part of a ‘Mythical Monsters’ unit, transform into spectacular experimental abstractions and more. Using workflows, students grapple with the creative process...
Photography is a visual medium, so it makes sense to use a visual resource to explain the tools of the trade. This great infographic (originally posted on the totallyrad.com blog) gives clarity to some potentially confusing terms and settings for students using cameras on manual...
Here’s a great idea… Take your students to a gallery and let them interact with the sculptures like never before. We took a group of Year 10s on a walk through a sculpture garden and asked them to use their iPads to photograph the work. Using their iPads they...
A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again. The collection of figures on the plane have no gaps and no overlaps. Patterns created this way have an incredible mathematical rhythm. Not only are tessellations fun to create, they can teach students...
Creating mandalas can be an engaging way for students to explore radial designs, symmetry and patterns in visual art. The effect of colour on design and the influence of line are made explicit. Connections can be made to the process of abstraction – this is an easy way to...
Where do you begin the search for art apps for the classroom? Many websites have some excellent lists and we’ve put some of the best all in once place. Apps for Art Creative Bloq’s 15 Best iPad apps for sketching and painting App Advice: Apps for the iPhone...
Kronopedia This powerful timeline app allows students and teachers to visually navigate through art periods, dates and movements with ease. Artists names are also arranged on a second timeline, with links to a beautifully presented selection of resources including images and...
This is one of the key apps that helps me deliver information to my students. In seconds you can create an beautiful, glossy magazine of images, articles, websites, photos, documents, resources, etc. Using a tweet, the app displays the content I want to students in a way that...
The Foldify app allows you to create a printable ‘origami-style’ 3D model of a work you create. Use your own drawings or photos, or the bits and pieces in the app, to produce a paper masterpiece. You can combine so many of your own elements in combination with...
‘Let’s Create Pottery’ is a great addition to any ceramics or pottery unit. The experience of throwing clay on a wheel and moulding a vessel on a spinning turntable is recreated in stunning HD. Although the muddy mess is gone (and I don’t intend to...
