By Charlotte Puddephatt

In the ‘Adapting AccessArt’ series, we will be spotlighting teachers who have used AccessArt resources to develop their own pathways.

In this post, Charlotte Puddephatt, a teacher at Sheffield High School, shares with us how she adapted the AccessArt resource Plinth People: Sculptural Self-Portraits for her Year 3 class to support her school’s submission to the Take One Picture exhibition in 2025.

The Take One Picture exhibition opened at the National Gallery in June. Now in its 30th year, the painting that inspired this year’s artwork from children around the UK is Courtyard of a House in Delft by the Dutch painter, Peter de Hooch. This project involved three one-hour sessions for making, followed by two additional sessions to create the backdrop.”

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This Project Uses The Following Resources…

Plinth people: Sculptural Self Portraits

Quick Clay Figurative Sketches

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Session Recording: Exploring Modroc

One: Casting

Exploring mark making into wet clay, mould making, mixing and pouring plaster

Two: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Using drawing to look at designs and patterns in nature to inspire the creation of wire sculpture

Three: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

Recording the surrounding world by taking rubbings

Four: Block Printing

Learners are introduced to block printing

Five: Monoprinting

Exploring texture, pattern and mark making through monoprinting

Six: Steps to Observational Drawing

Four steps to enabling observational drawing

Seven: Making Sculpture

Learners explore sculptural principles of form, space and balance

Eight: Wax Resist and Scraffito

Introducing colour with wax resist and scraffito techniques

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This is featured in the ‘The Art of Display’ pathway

talking points: What is a plinth

talking points: Thomas J Price

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