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.
year: Stage 5
Learner video: Exploring materials
This Art and design video guides learners through a hands-on exploration of how flat materials can be transformed into three-dimensional forms. Learners experiment with twisting, folding, tearing and weaving a range of materials such as paper, tissue, fabric and string.
Learner video: Futuristic images
This Art and design video supports learners as they complete futuristic drawings on collagraph prints. The activity encourages reflection, creative risk-taking and careful refinement of ideas using visual journals.
Teacher video: Futuristic drawings
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through the final stages of their futuristic artworks. The lesson focuses on evaluating and improving artwork, encouraging learners to apply their drawing ideas to their collagraph prints using chosen techniques.
Learner video: Collagraph printing
This Art and design video demonstrates how to print textured collagraph plates as a foundation for futuristic artwork. The activity encourages experimentation with colour, pressure and composition to create unique, expressive backgrounds.
Learner video: The future
This Art and design video guides learners as they begin planning a creative artwork showing their own vision of the future. Inspired by retrofuturistic imagery and their printed collagraph backgrounds, learners explore imaginative ideas and experiment with composition and drawing techniques in their visual journals.
Teacher video: A vision for the future
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through the planning stage of a future-themed artwork. Building on prior lessons, learners brainstorm imaginative and realistic ideas about what the future might look like, before developing a composition and process plan for drawing on their printed textured backgrounds.
Learner video: Making the printing page
This Art and design video demonstrates collagraph printmaking using textured materials to build unique printing plates. The activity encourages experimentation, independent choices and an understanding of how texture can support imaginative artwork.
Teacher video: Beyond the pencil
This Art and design video supports teachers as learners explore collagraph printing inspired by the work of Teis Albers. The lesson builds on previous printing experience by guiding learners through the creation of textured printing plates using a variety of materials, encouraging creative decisions, experimentation and the development of independent working skills.