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Ages 5-11
Inspired by miro – collage and sculpture
Explore colour, shape and composition
inspired by the textiles of henry moore
Create tonal washes inspired by Henry Moore
quentin blake’s drawings as inspiration
Use exaggeration as a tool to help drawing from life
Drawing toys inspired by gwen john’s
Create drawings of toys inspired by Gwen John
Where The Wild Things Are
A series of resources inspired by Maurice Sendak
splendour and opulence inspired by klimt
Respond to the painting ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I’
painting inspired by Van Gogh
Paint on plaster using oil pastel, linseed oil & graphite
Our river – inspired by Georges Seurat
Use “Bathers at Asnières” as inspiration for a collaborative piece
COLOUR COMPOSITION AND BEN NICHOLSON
Explore the visual weight of shapes
Da Vinci – Drawings of inventions
Be inspired by Da Vinci’s notebook drawings
drawing with wire inspired by calder
Create wire drawings inspired by Calder
heavy/light mobile – drawing and making
Make mobiles based on Calder work
drawing feathers
Create drawings of a feather inspired by Ruskin
Drawing with scissors
Draw, collage and print inspired by a painting
drawing water
Juxtapose studies of water by old and new artists
Pop-Up Puppets
Design puppets inspired by a painting
drawing with mass
Explore mass and volume inspired by Henry Moore
Japanese ceramics
Create paintings inspired by Usaka Koji’s ceramics
11-16
still life drawing in a cubist style
Explore Cubist ideas of drawing time and space
colour mixing
Colour mixing inspired by Winnifred Nicholson
repetitive line drawing
Challenge ideas of what a drawing should be
Drawing to Feed Making
Use seascapes by J.M.W. Turner as a starting point
Gothic revival – exploring glass painting
Explore 4 craft techniques: pouncing, tessellating, gilding and painting
monoprinting inspired by goya
Find large-scale mono printing and expressive mark-making
Screenprinted campaign posters
Work together to create large-scale campaign posters
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exploring materials: clay and water
Explore clay, inspired by Antony Gormley’s installation ‘Field’
Propaganda Art
Three sessions exploring the art of Shepard Fairey
Sculpture from Sculpture
Explore C20th sculpture and sculptural processes
Kinetic mobile
Make wire sculptures based on Calder
all that glitters
A project based on the work of Andrew Logan
Making Sculpture inspired by degas
Explore sculptures by French artist Edgar Degas
drawings inspired by degas
This resource explores drawings by Edgar Degas
graffiti
Take inspiration from the methods of Graffiti artists
journeys inspired by kandinsky
Capture the tone, texture and feel of a place
beginning with bones
Understand the structure of the human body
For remembrance day
Respond to artwork and a poem
monotypes inspired by degas
Explore Edgar Degas , inky drawings or monotypes
Tall Skinny
Find inspiration in Phyllida Barlow and Rebecca Warren
how to use thermoplastic moulding
