AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards

AccessArt drawing prompt cards have been created in collaboration with artists and teachers over the years, to help support drawing and overcome the ‘white page’ and ‘fear of drawing’.

Prompt cards have also been used in the context of drawing CPD for teachers and Drawing for Mindfulness sessions.
Many thanks to artist Betsy Dadd who first introduced us to the idea of drawing in the time it takes to ‘inhale and exhale a breath’, and in the time it takes to ‘blink’.

AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards

Download or access AccessArt Drawing Prompts here. Drawing Prompt Cards work very well presented on a whiteboard.

This is a sample of a resource created by UK Charity AccessArt. We have over 1500 resources to help develop and inspire your creative thinking, practice and teaching.

AccessArt welcomes artists, educators, teachers and parents both in the UK and overseas.

We believe everyone has the right to be creative and by working together and sharing ideas we can enable everyone to reach their creative potential.

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Teachers embarked on an exercise whereby they made marks on paper to have a conversation with a partner. This was a playful and fun exercise and teachers very much enjoyed both the process and outcomes.

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This was the second session in the series and an introduction to pattern, shape and texture with charcoal and graphite, and an opportunity for teachers to break down any preconceived ideas about what drawing is and who drawing processes is for.

Play and Placement: Teachers Explore Approaches to Drawing

This was the third and final session in the series, and an opportunity to play with creative mark-making and explore context and placement as an introduction to larger scale drawing and concepts around installation art.

UK Charity AccessArt welcomes artists, educators, teachers and parents both in the UK and overseas.

We believe everyone has the right to be creative and by working together and sharing ideas we can enable everyone to reach their creative potential.

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Play and Placement: Teachers Explore Approaches to Drawing

Teachers Explore Pattern, Shape & Texture with Charcoal, Graphite, Masking Tape and Pastels

Teachers Battle it Out in Conversation with Marks on Paper

InSET Day at Welland Academy: Exploring Printmaking Processes

Teachers Explore ‘Line and Shape’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with AccessArt

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MONOPRINTING INSPIRED BY GOYA, TURNER AND CORNELIUS

TEACHERS PLAY WITH PLASTICINE TO MAKE PRINTS