This Art and design video demonstrates how to create graffiti-style word art using bold colours and expressive letter shapes. The activity encourages creative lettering, personal meaning and the use of pattern and detail to bring words to life.
year: Stage 6
Learner video: Photorealistic portraits
This Art and design video shows learners how to use a grid technique to create their own photorealistic self-portrait. Step by step, learners are guided to transfer and outline an image with precision before choosing how to add colour or tone in their own creative style.
Teacher video: Photorealism
This Art and design video supports teachers in introducing learners to the concept of photorealism through the creation of detailed self-portraits. Teachers are guided in supporting learners to use the grid drawing technique to replicate an image with precision, while encouraging individual expression through colour and media choices.
Teacher video: Photographic recreations of paintings
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through a fun and imaginative photography challenge inspired by the Getty Museum. Learners collaborate to recreate famous paintings using props and costumes, developing skills in composition, expression, and creative problem-solving.
Teacher video: Digital art
This Art and design video supports teachers as learners create bold digital photographs inspired by artist Derek Oberteng. Teachers are guided in supporting creative exploration and ensuring outcomes are purposeful and visually striking.
Teacher video: Macro photography
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through an exploration of macro photography as an art form. Inspired by Edward Weston, the lesson encourages learners to closely observe natural forms and create powerful abstract images.
Learner video: Photomontage
This Art and design video demonstrates how to create a photomontage cityscape using cut-out images from newspapers, magazines or photographs. The activity encourages creativity, experimentation and visual storytelling through collage.
Teacher video: Photomontage
This Art and design video supports teachers in introducing learners to photomontage through the work of artists like Hannah Höch. Learners explore composition and visual storytelling by creating cityscape posters made from cut-out images of household products, arranged to meet a design brief.
Learner video: Sculpture plans
This Art and design video guides learners as they begin planning a memory box sculpture filled with symbolic objects. Inspired by artists like Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson, they reflect on personal memories, sketch ideas and explore ways to represent them in 3D form.