By Katherine Woodard.

Katherine currently teaches A Level Fine Art and GCSE at an International Sixth Form boarding school and KS2 Art and Design at a Primary school.

In this post, Teacher Katherine Woodard talks through an extended project exploring the work of Paul Nash. Nash was a 20th century surrealist Landscape Painter and War Artist, and Katherine makes the latter her focus in this post.

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Visual Arts Planning: Clay

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“It’s great to see music being explored in this way, and combining it with making creates a really interesting immersive project. This activity would work well as part of an extended project looking at musical instruments around the world and some of the natural materials they are made from.” – Rachel, AccessArt

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Pathway: Music and art

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drawing source material: orchestras

A Cheerful Orchestra

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“We love how this activity provides an opportunity to explore a well known Artist’s work, through focussing on their materials and techniques. The children looked at Frank Bowling’s work before creating their own individual responses that retained individual ownership – something we advocate as part of a rich and balanced visual arts education. It was also great to see how a professional artist visited the school to further enhance the children’s experience.” – Rachel, AccessArt

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Pathway: Cloth, thread, paint

This is featured in the ‘Cloth, Thread, Paint’ pathway

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Are you an Upper KS2 or Lower KS3 teacher planning on studying Shakespeare as part of your English Literature curriculum? If so, AccessArt needs your help!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a brand new project that links the visual arts with Shakespeare – and we are looking for schools to take part in the project pilot to help us gather evidence for a series of inspirational resources that explore new ways to study Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet and A  Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The focus of the project delivery will be through visual arts sessions, but with strong links to aspects of the literacy curriculum such as knowledge and comprehension of language, reconsigning themes, and comparing characters when discussing dramatic literature.

What do you need to do?

1. Let us know if you would like to take part (see details at bottom of the page)
2. Be able to deliver a short series of visual arts activities, pre-planned by AccessArt, that explore one of the plays listed above during the Autumn term 2021 or Spring term 2022.
3. Come along to a drop-in Zoom session/s where we will be providing practical demonstrations of some of the activities that support the project delivery
4. Document the activities taking place (preferably with a colleague to assist) and send the named and captioned photos to us
5. AccessArt will then pull all the evidence together to create a series of Shakespeare resources on the website which we can share with our wider UK and international teacher and artist community

Interested? Let us know! Please email rachel@accessart.org.uk answering the following questions:

• Why you would like to take part in the project and why it appeals to you
• What Key Stage the participating children would be
• What your play preference is out of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream

We are looking for approximately 5 schools to take part in this initial pilot. A full project breakdown will be sent to all participating schools and the pre planned sessions will be made available by June 30^th

We look forward to hearing from you!

The “Drawing and Poetry” In the Studio event explores connections between drawing and the written word.

Drawing can often take place in an observational context, where we draw what we see in front of us. In this session, we will use a poem as a starting point, and explore ways to really see it, and to draw the imagery and feelings it evokes.

The aim is to provide exciting starting points to explore a more fluid and experimental approach to drawing.

Find the recording of the session below.

Explore resources connecting drawing and poetry:

found poetry

poetry comics

poetry and printing

puzzle purses

imagery and poetry

illustrating the jabberwocky

set design – responding to text

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Create and paint your own still life composition inspired by Cezanne

Drawing Spiral Snails

Explore spirals found in nature with this mixed media workshop

Drawing Spirals

Explore drawing using whole body movements

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Pathway: Simple Printmaking

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