This Art and design video introduces teachers to the use of visual journals across all stages of learning. It explains how visual journals can support creativity, reflection and skill development by providing learners with a personal space to explore materials, record ideas and document progress throughout the artistic process.

This Art and design video guides learners through the process of creating a piece of Japanese Notan art, a striking style that uses symmetry and contrast. Learners draw, cut and flip shapes from black card to explore positive and negative space in a balanced composition.

This Art and design video guides learners through the process of creating a cyanotype, which is a blue photographic print made using sunlight.

This Art and design video guides learners through a hands-on exploration of modelling dough, encouraging them to experiment with shaping, twisting, stretching and layering.

This Art and design video demonstrates how to create expressive abstract flower drawings inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe. The activity encourages learners to use viewfinders thumbnail sketches and bold lines to explore scale composition and mark-making in abstract art.

This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through the process of creating expressive abstract flower drawings, inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe. Learners draw on a large scale, using bold lines and marks to capture close-up sections of flowers in an abstract way, experimenting with media such as markers, chalks and paint.

This Art and design video demonstrates how to make detailed observational drawings of flowers inspired by scientific study. The activity encourages learners to zoom in with magnifying glasses sketch simple shapes enlarge details and add notes like a botanist.