This Art and design video demonstrates how to create expressive painted or collaged backgrounds to support poem portraits. The activity encourages creative decision-making, exploring how colour, shape and texture can reflect personality and mood.

This Art and design video demonstrates how to create a self-portrait using continuous line drawing and personal poetry. The activity encourages expressive mark-making and explores identity through the combination of image and text.

 

This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners to create expressive self-portraits that combine continuous line drawing with personal text or poetry. Learners draw themselves using a single, uninterrupted line to capture facial features and shadows, then overlay their portrait with words that follow the form of the face, building a layered, creative composition.

This Art and design video guides learners through the process of creating a lino or polystyrene print from their own drawing. Children learn how to transfer their designs onto a printing plate, carve or press in lines to create areas of contrast and safely use tools and ink rollers to make their final print.

This Art and design video introduces relief printmaking through lino printing inspired by memory drawings. The activity encourages learners to explore carving and pressing techniques and how artists like Elizabeth Catlett use line and texture to express emotion and tell stories.

This Art and design video introduces key printmaking techniques including block, mono, collagraph and lino printing. It explores how each method supports the development of line, pattern, tone, texture and colour, while offering practical guidance on materials, tools, and safe classroom use.

This Art and design video demonstrates how to add depth to drawings using foreground middle ground and background. The activity encourages learners to use lines patterns and shading inspired by Elizabeth Catlett to suggest space distance and guide the viewer’s eye.

This Art and design video supports teachers in exploring how artists create the illusion of depth in two-dimensional drawings. The lesson introduces the concepts of foreground, middle ground and background, helping learners understand how size, detail, colour and placement can suggest distance and space.

This Art and design video demonstrates how to create expressive drawings using felt tip pens and water inspired by Charlie Mackesy. The activity encourages experimentation with line tone movement and gentle washes of colour to convey emotion.