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The first poster, under the old name of Art School School by Sarah and John Gamble

Tiny Art Schools: Art School Ilkley Part One

Printing Workshop by John and Sarah Gamble

Tiny Art Schools: Art School Ilkley Part Two

Sculpture Workshop by Sarah and John Gamble

Tiny Art Schools: Art School Ilkley Part Three

The School Exhibition by Sarah Longley

Adapting AccessArt: Stories and Faces

Coloured beads made from clay and paper

Giant Jewellery: Multimedia Response to Yayoi Kusama

Creating Charcoal Rubbings by Laura McKendry

Improving Outcomes: Gestural Drawing with Charcoal Pathway

Perspective Drawing Of Restaurant Table By Joe Gamble

Playing With Perspective

Cutting Out Shapes by Tobi Meuwissen

Cooking With Collage

AccessArt Tiny Art School

How Tiny Art Schools Grow

Colour and Compositions by Yu-Ching Chiu

Adapting AccessArt: Colour and Composition

Blind and Non-Dominant Drawings of Food by Tobi Meuwissen

What I Ate in a Day

Paper Sculptures by Yu-Ching Chiu

Adapting AccessArt: From 2D to 3D

Final Prints by Yu-Ching Chiu

Adapting AccessArt: Pattern and Colour

Units Painted on Paper by Yu-Ching Chiu

Illustrating a Book: The Making of Rabbit, Cactus, Accident

Laura McKendry egg box gargoyles

Egg Box Gargoyles

Finished wild thing!

Pathway: Drawing and Making Inspired by Illustrators

Potatoes and Rocks

Pathway: Exploring Form Through Drawing

Egyptian Artefacts in Ink by Jennifer Connor

Adapting AccessArt: Egypt in Ink

Final Ice World by Frances Hatch

Ice Worlds

A group of children taking part in a freeze frame activity.

Why Use Drama in an Art Lesson?

School children talking in a drama lesson

Drama Activity: An Art Conversation

A boy sitting on a chair

Drama Activity: Hot-seating a Character

A drama lesson taking place involving role play.

Drama Activity: Spontaneous Role Play

A group of children taking part in a freeze frame activity.

Drama Activity: Freeze Frame and Thought-tapping

Polar bears at Bourn Primary Academy

Pathway: Using Art To Explore Global Issues

Cityscape by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Drawing The Details

Featherstone Building by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Perspective

Dietcoke by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Choosing Subject Matter

Drawings of Pens by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Materials

Urban Sketch by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Sketchbooks & Composition

Cityscape Drawing by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: The Basics

SCARLETT_REBECCA_RESIDENCIES

Artist Residencies in Schools

David Oats gel print - pulled-print-1

An Introduction to Gel Plate Printing

Painted Clay Pen by Tobi Meuwissen

Clay Pens

Drawing on Pebbles

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing

Clay Pinch Pots and Pendants Inspired By Stone Age Pots by Charlotte Puddephatt

Adapting AccessArt: Stone Age Clay Play

Filling a care box with cardboard items.

Magic Caring Box

William's Sketch Inspired by Janine's Painting by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Funding our Trip to YSP

Pupils visiting NAEA by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Finding Exhibitions Near You

Samantha Bryan's Blimp by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Curating an Exhibition Part One

Elise Pointing At The Exhibition Wall by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Curating an Exhibition Part Two

Fairyfields with Letterpress Type by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Tips for Organising an Exhibition Setting

Painting Plates by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Plates Inspired by Janine Burrows

Fairy Heads Inspired by Samantha Bryan by Nat Deane

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part One

Fairy Inspired By Samantha Bryan Workshop by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part Two

Island With Artists work by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: The Island: A Thinking Skills Workshop

Meeting Janine by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Finding Artists In Your Community

Images of Artists Work As Part Of Island Thinking by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Top Tips for Facilitating an Island Thinking Workshop

Screens Drying by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Preparing Screens

Nigel and Girls Printing by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Inspired by Nigel Hoyle

Boys Looking at Janine's Houses by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Yorkshire Sculpture Park Visit

Glueing shapes onto a circle of paper.

Angry Cat, Calm Cat

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Mobile Construction Methods

Drawing round the foam board shapes

Pathway: Explore Sculpture by Making a Mobile

Finished Group Sculptures Inspired by Nnena Kalu by Lorna Greenwood

Adapting AccessArt: Playful Making Inspired by Nnena Kalu

Monoprint and Oil Pastel Inspired by The Great Fire of London by Ruth Sohn-Rethel

Adapting AccessArt: Monoprint and Painting: The Great Fire of London

A cardboard sculpture on green screen.

Exploring Scale with Green Screen

Painting patterns using Draw and Tell digital painting tool.

Painting on Screen

Showing what can be added to a page in Book creator.

Making Digital Bookmarks

Henri Rousseau's a Centennial of Independence (1892) famous painting. Original from The Getty. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Session Recording: Connecting Approaches

sq_ Lisbon Sketchbook by Joe Gamble

Working in a Studio

A series of landscape experiments looking at simple forms.

Changing Colour

Sculpture of a Bird by Ellie Daly

Adapting AccessArt: Making Birds Pathway for Pupils With Special Educational Needs

Joe Gamble

Manipulating Forms in Landscape Painting

The Spirit of Sketchbooks by Paula Briggs

Key Differences Between Sketchbooks and Exercise Books

Kestrel by Charlotte Puddephatt

Adapting AccessArt: Woodland Creatures

Trying out different techniques by Caroline Moore

Adapting AccessArt: Telling Stories

"It was a dark and stormy night."

Pathway: An Exploration of Coal Mining, Inspired By Henry Moore

Ripped Charcoal Collage by Laura McKendry

Pathway: How Can I Use Light & Dark To Create A Sense Of Space? (Inspired By The Coal Mining Drawings Of Henry Moore)

Several sketchbooks open

Ofsted Deep Dive

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Returning to Our Bodies – Poised Between The Slip and The Grub

Oil Pastel on Tinfoil Print by Tobi Meuwissen

Cloth, Paint, Print: Inspired by Natural Objects

Ripping Paper by Laura McKendry

Expressive Charcoal Collage: Coal Mines

A series of paper shapes attached to bamboo canes like flags.

An Introduction to Sculpture

Common snipe, illustration from Bijutsu Sekai (1893-1896) by Watanabe Seitei, a prominent Kacho-ga artist.

Thinking about Art Education? Think again

Two painted cardboard cups together.

Wet Strength Tissue Paper Cups

A finished collaged plant made with painted card and wire.

Painted and Sculptural Plant Pots

A scarf and jacket on painted cardboard.

Alternative Fashion

Sardines and lemons painted in colour on black paper.

Working on Black Paper

A shell inspired sculpture.

Coat-hanger Shells

Jan Miller boats

Hew Locke Inspired Boats

Experimenting with Colour Mixing

AccessArt Session Recording: Colour Mixing

Final Modroc Plasterboards by Paula Briggs

Modroc Plasterboard

Tying the Drawing Together by Rowan

Deconstructing to Help You See

display your bauble by Scarlett Rebecca

Recycled Baubles by Scarlett Rebecca

Ink Drawing of a Hand by Lancelot Richardson

Introduction to Ink

Artist Saya McNairn-Yanagi in her studio.

Artist Studio Series: Saya McNairn-Yanagi

A portrait photo of artist Sherrie Leigh Jones

Artist Studio Series: Sherrie Leigh Jones

Artist Alej Ez working at his desk.

Artist Studio Series: Alej Ez

Painting on a T-shirt by Tobi

T-Shirt Paintings

Johannes Vermeer’s The Lacemaker (ca.1669–1671)

What Does Success Look Like?

Revealing the Print by Tobi Meuwissen

Printing with String

Landscape Collage by Tobi Meuwissen

Imaginary Landscapes

Blending Chalk by Tobi Meuwissen

Collecting, Arranging, Drawing

IMG4-2 hester berry

Session Recording: Drawing Figures

Marbled Hole Punch Sketchbook by Tobi Meuwissen

Marbled Hole Punch Sketchbook

Cut the Animals into 3 by Tobi Meuwissen

Modelling Monsters

Plasticine Feature on an Orange by Tobi Meuwissen

Fruit and Veg Head

Threading the Paper Twist by Scarlett Rebecca

Recycled Baskets by Scarlett Rebecca

Burnishing with Colour Pencils by Lancelot Richardson

Introduction to Colour Pencils

A finished wild thing ready for modroc

Session Recording: Exploring Modroc

Artist Sara Reeve in her studio.

Artist Studio Series: Sara Reeve

Final Insect Hotel by Tobi Meuwissen

Insect Hotels

Cardboard Objects Altogether by Tobi Meuwissen

Top Tips for Cardboard Creations

A portrait photo of artist Scarlett Rebecca.

Artist Studio Series: Scarlett Rebecca

expressive painting on green

Session Recording: Expressive Painting

Painted Found objects by Paula Briggs

Transforming Objects

Poster Paint Collage

Painting with Poster Paint

graphite pencils

Drawing with Soft Pencils

Sgraffito

Explore Wax Crayon

Art is a Unique Subject to Teach

Why We Need To Allow Art To Be The Unique Subject It Is…

Let's Start With... Collage

Let’s Start With… Collage

Four textile blood bags on display by Mandy Barrett

The Blood Bag Project

Adding Pencil To Landscape Concertina by Saoirse Morgan

Concertina Landscapes

A collage of different photographs.

Digital Collage and Image Manipulation

Evolving a sketch to make an animation.

Exploring Digital Animation

Jean Edwards photographing sculptures

Taking Photos of 3D Artwork

Designing a decorative blood bag on paper.

Which Artist: Leigh Bowser

Finding Circles

Final Autumn Floor Textiles Made Using Rubbing by Tobi Meuwissen

Autumn Floor Textiles

Toy with his Props by Tobi Meuwissen

Prop Making for Toys

Explorer's Colour Book by Tobi Meuwissen

Explorer’s Books: Collecting Colour

Wax Crayon Rubbings by Tobi Meuwissen

Collaging with Wax Crayon Rubbings

Cutting String by Tobi Meuwissen

Repeat Pattern Printing Roller

Storyboard of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Recounting the Story

A range of small pencil drawings.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Making Magic Spells

Adding textured and twisted paper to a collage.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Creating a Forest Collage Part Two

A close up of a paper collage of a forest.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Creating a Forest Collage Part One

A wall display of costume designs for Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Costume Design for Bottom

Drawing a portraits of a figure from Ancient Greece.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream Through Art: Ancient Greek Dress Portraits

Blended Chalk Pastel by Lancelot Richardson

Introduction to Chalk Pastels

DashwoodStudio Fabric Design by Rachel Parker

Collecting Colour in my Moodboard Book

Using a Viewfinder In A Moodboard Collage by Rachel Parker

Collecting Colour

Fabric Inspired By Moodboar Collage by Rachel Parker

How Colour Collection Inspires My Work

Escaping Wars and Waves Front Cover by Olivier Kugler

Escaping Wars and Waves – Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Analogue Drawings by Elizabeth Hammond

Analogue Drawing

Foot Drawing of a Chair by Elizabeth Hammond

Drawing With Your Feet

Student Creating a Stick Drawing by Elizabeth Hammond

Drawing with Sticks

Quill Line by Lancelot Richardson

Session Recording: Exploring Line Weight

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Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Storyboards

Using red water colour as 'blood on hands'

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Out Damn Spot!

An illustrative poster for Macbeth.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Light and Dark Posters

A pencil drawing of Macbeth.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Macbeth Portraits

Adding paint to ripped sugar paper.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Witch’s Capes

Creating a sense of place when drawing with charcoal.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Heath Landscapes

Round and Round Paper Weave by Naomi Kendall

Explore Paper Weaving

Willow Charcoal Using the Point by Lancelot Richardson

Session Recording: Exploring Charcoal

Mark making sheet

Session Recording: Finding Marks Made by Artists

Felt Tip Pen by Lancelot Richardson

Introduction to Pens

Visual Literacy by Tobi Meuwissen

Why Visual Literacy is an Important Skill

Sculptural Environment Inspired by Hockney by Natalie Deane

Sculptural Environments Inspired by Hockney

How We Use AccessArt: Brooklands Farm Primary School

Snail home by Mostyn de Beer

Learning from Permaculture Design Principles

Sanding Graphite by Lancelot Richardson

Introduction to Graphite

materials wire, tape elastic bands

AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum Materials List

Sequencing Plans

AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum: Disciplines, Sequencing & Artists

MFT

AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum Medium Term Plans

Design Through Making by Tobi Meuwissen

Design Through Making

How Do We Assess Art in Primary Schools by Tobi Meuwissen

A Clear Progression of Knowledge and Skills…

MTP for Additional Pathways

AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum: Additional Pathways: Medium Term Plans

How Do We Use Artists in Schools by Tobi Meuwissen

How Do We Use Artists in Schools?

Show Me What You See Method 250 Words by Tobi Meuwissen

Show Me What You See

Which Artists Should We Look At in Primary Schools by Tobi Meuwissen

Which Artists Should We Look At in Primary School?

attached to mannequin by Paula Briggs

Making 2d & 3d Fashion Designs with Painted and Decorated Paper

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Making Painted & Sewn Landscapes

An open page spread of a child's sketchbook

Using Sketchbooks to Make Visual Notes

Finished AccessArt Treehouse

Making a Treehouse

Making birds from card, paper and wire

Pathway: Making Birds

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

Pathway: Playful Making

Broad Drawing Tools Detail by Andrea Butler

Experimental Mark Making Tools

Making the spirals their own

Pathway: Spirals

Shepard-ProtectEachOther

Pathway: Print & Activism

"Flat yet sculptural" standing dog!

Pathway: 2D Drawing to 3D Making

Holding up a large shadow puppet of a palace

Pathway: Shadow Puppets

Seated figure - front

Pathway: Take A Seat

Olafur Eliasson Exhibition at The Tate by Paula Briggs

Pathway: Brave Colour

Street view!

Pathway: Architecture: Dream Big or Small?

"The cliffs were steep and jagged."

Pathway: Set Design

"Bottle and Fruits by Paul Cézanne" by Barnes Foundation is marked with CC0 1.0

Pathway: Exploring Still Life

The picnic spread!

Pathway: Festival Feasts

Dilutions of ink

Mixed Media Landscape Challenges

A nest drawing using ink and oil pastel

Nests: With Dry and Wet Media

Drawing a feather

Nests: Observational Ink Drawing

Using different tools and making marks with ink

Nests: Materials, Tools Testing and Sketchbooks

Monoprinted pages folded into zine

Pathway: Making Monotypes

Pathway: Exploring Watercolour

Pathway: Exploring Watercolour

Plastacine Prints

Pathway: Simple Printmaking

Sea by Emma Burleigh

Pathway: Mixed Media Land And City Scapes

Adding some colour to a mythical instrument

Pathway: Music And Art

Year 3 pupils at milton Road Primary School and their Articulated Beasts

Pathway: Making Animated Drawings

Oil pastel and graphite fly

Pathway: Flora And Fauna

Drawing houses from around the world

Pathway: Be An Architect

Charcoal palatte

Pathway: Gestural Drawing with Charcoal

Monoprinted pages

A Visual Poetry Zine with Monotype

inked foam plate

Print Foam – Making Relief Prints: Incised & Additive

Paradaisu Pattern by Rachel Parker

Pathway: Exploring Pattern

Cut Out Typography By Tobi Meuwissen

Pathway: Typography and Maps

Studies of dancers

Dance and Drawing

The "drawn" side of the carbon - used as a drawing in its own right

Pathway: Exploring the World Through Mono Print

Overlaying Prints by Paula Briggs

Pathway: Working with Shape and Colour

secondary colours on sketchbook page

Expressive Painting & Colour Mixing

Osakana detail: acrylic on calico

Osakana

Final 3D Tins And Jars By Tobi Meuwissen

Paint Your Corner Shop

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Talking Points: Shepard Fairey

Woodpecker

Making Sculptural Birds

Adding scale models to a space

Charcoal Cave

Image (c) Quentin Blake, 1987 from 'Mrs Armitage on Wheels' (published by Jonathan Cape)

Pathway: Telling Stories Through Drawing & Making

Jabberwocky - mark making Ellie Somerset

Pathway: Storytelling Through Drawing

Ingredients and plant materials for making Anthotype prints by Genevieve Rudd

Pathway: Using Natural Materials to Make Images

Pocket Gallery

Pathway: The Art Of Display

Exhibition Painting With Cloth by Cas Holmes

Pathway: Cloth, Thread, Paint

Tree Houses

Pathway: Stick Transformation Project

Deatil: Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque (ca. 1883) by Paul Cézanne.

Pathway: Expressive Painting

Trace Monotype by Tobi Meuwissen

Trace Monotype

Light-Field Monotype by Tobi Meuwissen

Light-field Monotype

Light-Field Monotype by Tobi Meuwissen

Light-field Monotype with Acrylic Paint

Monotype Masking Vimeo by Tobi Meuwissen

Dark-Field Monotype: Masking

Dark-field Monotype Vimeo by Tobi Meuwissen

Dark-field Monotype

Cut Out Typography By Tobi Meuwissen

Cut Out Typography

Wax resist leaves by pupils at Dent School, facilitated by Rosie James

Pathway: Explore & Draw

Pushing Ink Through a Silk Screen by Paula Briggs

Screen Printing In The Classroom

image to show how non-specialist teachers teach art

How Do Non-Specialist Teachers Teach Art?

What Is Sculpture

What Is Sculpture?

What is a drawing tool?

Basic and Budget Friendly Art Materials for Primary Schools

Counting Coloured Pencils By Mostyn de Beer

To The Thames Barrier And Beyond

Children Painting On A Sheet by Mostyn de Beer

Workshop Season in Review

Compressed Charcoal Using Side By Lancelot Richardson

Introduction to Charcoal

How Do We Assess Art in Primary Schools by Tobi Meuwissen

How To Assess Creativity: Part One

How Do We Assess Art in Primary Schools by Tobi Meuwissen

How To Assess Creativity: Part Two

Trees painted in oil pastel inspired by Paul Nash

World War 1 And The Work Of Paul Nash

Child Painting The Fence By Mostyn de Beer

Green Thumbs

Lloyd Evans Photo x Living Tree by Andrew Amondson

Which Artists: Andrew Amondson

Early Developments and Sampling By Tatyana Antoun

Which Artists: Tatyana Antoun

Brain Surgery Cartoon By Merlin Evans

Which Artists: Merlin Evans

Untitled_Artwork

Exploring, Associating & Connecting – a Sketchbook Exercise

Assessment and Progression in Primary School

Rethinking our Approach to Assessment & Progression in Primary School

Natural Ink Swatch By Scarlett Rebecca

Home Made Inks

Lino Print by Scarlett Rebecca

Printmaking By Scarlett Rebecca

Fish Sketchbook By Scarlett Rebecca

How I Use Sketchbooks & Drawing

Tinfoil For Lithography by Scarlett Rebecca

Kitchen Lithography

Constructing without being limited by creating a permanent sculpture

Mind the Gap Between the National Curriculum in Art for Primary Schools & Ofsted

Using thick and thin lines to create rhythm

The AccessArt Drawing Journey for Primary Children: Aims and Intent

Developing Wild Things

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for ages 5 to 7

Cross hatches

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for ages 7 to 9

Oil Pastel and Graphite Drawing of Feather by Child

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for ages 5 to 7

Drawing a wolf

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for Ages 7 to 9

Children designing letters

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for Ages 9 to 11

Detail of photocopied and enlarged engraving marks (taken from George Cruickshank's illustrations for Oliver by Charles Dickens)

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for Ages 9 to 11

What is a Drawing tool?

What Is A Drawing Tool?

How Do We Look At Contemporary Sculpture: Meg Klosterman

Mel Woo Saatchi London Grad Exhibition Intallation

How Do We Look At Contemporary Sculpture: Mel Woo

Perpetual Decomposer Saatchi London Grad Exhibition Installation Victoria Rotaru Image By John Sachpazis

How Do We Look At Contemporary Sculpture: Victoria Rotaru

Making is Hard, Image by Tobi Muewissen for AccessArt

Making is Hard

sketchbook from found book

What Is The Purpose of Drawing?

What is Drawing, Image by Tobi Meuwissen for AccessArt

What Is Drawing?

Finished Pattern Square By Rachel Parker

Creating Repeat Patterns With Rachel Parker

Prompt Cards

AccessArt’s Prompt Cards for Making

Freyas Painting By Joanne Andrews

Still Life Compositions: Inspired by Cezanne

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Remembrance Day Peg Soldiers

Make First

Screen Print For Woking College Banner By Sarah Pimenta

Making A Banner At Woking College

A Girl And Her Sister Weaving Together by Mostyn De Beer

Outdoor Art In Urban Gardens

Children Playing By Penny Hay

Wish List

Work By Madge Gill William Morris Gallery by Sophie Dutton

Which Artists: The Life & Works of Madge Gill

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Transformation of Materials Inspired by El Anatsui

alien_and_pet

The Transformation Project

Sketchbooks are places for

Sketchbooks Should Be…

Progression Plan Making

Download an Editable Version of the AccessArt Progression Plan

Theresa Easton Turkish Map Fold

Turkish Map Fold

Curtis Holder

Curtis Holder: Art & Education

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

Scaffolding Projects

Aglow Liz West Nemozena 2018-9

Which Artists: Liz West

Collage Streets by Jan Miller

Collage Streets

Siobhan's Mail Art by Theresa Easton

World War I Mail Art

The Bountiful Kitchen Cover by Claire Harrup

Which Artists: Claire Harrup

Book Apothecary Close Up by Theresa Easton

Which Artists: Theresa Easton

Thoughts on the Curriculum by Paul Carney

Thoughts About the Art & Design Curriculum by Paul Carney

snakes and ladders board for art educators

Taking Stock: What a Game of Snakes & Ladders Made Me Think About Art Education

A replica Pandora's box made from clay

An Exploration of Pandora’s Box

Portrait by Ava Jolliffe

Which Artists: Ava Jolliffe

2B Or Not 2B Studio Picture by Sarah and Elsa Hingley

Which Artists: 2B or Not 2B

Student Monet Response by Katherine Woodard

Sketchbook Journey At Haslingfield Primary School

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

Creativity Medals

Shaker sticks made from bells and sticks

Making Musical Instruments

Inga-untangles-flax-that-she-has-woven-by-Mostyn-de-Beer

Touch Wood

Summer Arrangement by Jason Line

Which Artists: Jason Line

2008 The Snow Queen Book Set by Su Blackwell

Which Artists: Su Blackwell

Row of Sleepers 1986 by Henry Moore. Reproduced by the Henry Moore Foundation

Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings

Fabrics for Dashwood Studio by Rachel Parker

Which Artists: Rachel Parker

Exhibition Painting With Cloth by Cas Holmes

Which Artists: Cas Holmes

Older-child-painting-the-dogwood-by-Mostyn-de-Beer

Working with Dogwood

Morris Mike by Nathan Ward

Which Artists: Nathan Ward

Rock Landscape by Toby Pritchard

Which Artists: Toby Pritchard

Ice-cream cone shaped sculptures by Julia Rigby

Dropped Cone Sculptures with Julia Rigby

Using sketchbooks to explore ways to paint with texture

Volcano Painting inspired by Frank Bowling

Zoom Portrait Club by Jake Spicer

Portrait Club

Still Life Painting by Weareoutofoffice

Which Artists: We are out of office

Gabby Savage-Dickson: Etching

Felted and Embroidered Yellow Living Room by Gabby Dickson

Gabby Savage-Dickson: Felting & Embroidering Sets

Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver on their Balconies by Rosie Hurley

Rosie Hurley: Esio Trot

Broadway Market Game by Natsko Seki

Natsko Seki: Making Broadway Market

Portrait and Collage Sketchbook Page by Stephanie Cubbin

The Art Of Zines

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Connecting With Nature Through Art

Emily's Final Five Colour Print by Joy Johnston

Lino Printing Inspired by Gestural Drawings

Beetroot Pickle Juice and Potato Leaf Anthotype by Genevieve Rudd

Anthotype Photography: Plant-Based Photography Without a Camera

showing differences in colour and tone with mark making

Movement Maps

Final Packaging Together by Tobi Meuwissen

Redesigning Food Packaging

A participant comic

Creating Comics Inspired by Museum Collections

Using a printing press by Karen Wicks

Printmaking using Packaging

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Roots & Shoots: A Sculptural Challenge

Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh. Original from the J. Paul Getty Museum. CC0

Finding Marks Through Drawings Made by Artists

sketchbook mark making and collage

Personalising a Sketchbook with Mark Making and Collage

sketchbook from found book

Using a Found Book for a Sketchbook

Childrens Inky Painting

Be Consistent

Hanging Cardboard Collages Paul Carney

Be Mindful Of Hidden Assessment

Floor Tape Drawing

Make Assessment Inclusive

Sponge and Tape Painting

Attainment And Progress Are Two Very Different Things

Peer Assessing work

Make Assessment a Classroom Tool For Improvement

Building Sketches

Assess a Broad Range of Art Abilities Over Time, Linked To Your Curriculum

Black Pen Loose Drawings

Know Your Pupils’ Starting Points

Cutting out Images

Identify What It Is You Want To Assess

Inspired by Anglo Saxon architecture

A Sketchbook Pathway: Anglo Saxon Architecture

Using sketchbooks and Looking at Cupid and Psyche a Renaissance painting by Del Sellaio and making feathers

A Sketchbook Pathway Step 5: Keep The Sketchbook Handy

peeling paint on wall

A Sketchbook Pathway Step 4: Celebrate Individual Journey & Personal Discovery

small wave bowl

A Sketchbook Pathway 3: Let Go Of Expectations & Let Things Collide

Painting a Storm

Sketchbook Pathway Step 2: Energy of the Group

Missing You - Pavement piece by Rowan Briggs Smith during #lockdown 2020

A Sketchbook Pathway Step 1: Open Out & Give Permission

Gomersal art council - ACC Video making

Pupil Led Arts Council At Gomersal Primary School

The AccessArt Sketchbook Journey

Key Sketchbook Concepts

Making an Artist's Book by Paula Briggs

What Are Sketchbooks & What Can They Offer Us?

Sketchbook spaces and places

Making Spaces & Places in a Sketchbook

Simple Folded Sketchbook

Making a Simple Folded Sketchbook

An elastic band sketchbook

Making a Hole Punch Sketchbook

Making a Backwards Sketchbook

Making a Backwards Sketchbook

sketchbook mark making and collage

Making Time for Sketchbooks in Schools

Continuous Line Drawing Of A Shell By Zoe Coughlan

Water Soluble Felt-Tips With Complementary Colours

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Messages From Creative Adults: How Does Creativity Make You Feel?

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Messages From Creative Adults: Art School Experience

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Messages From Creative Adults: What Does Creativity Mean To You?

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What Shape is Progression

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Knowledge Organisers for Art in Primary Schools

Drawing for Learning in Anatomy

Drawing for Learning in Anatomy, by Dr Fay Penrose

Observing the colours through the prism

Nature Kaleidoscope

Animal Habitat Mural displayed on the wall

Animal Habitats: An Ecological Mural of Planet Earth

Y9 photography and artist study by Stephanie Cubbin

Raising Aspirations

Mike Barrett

DrawAble: Making Layered Portraits by Mike Barrett Part Three

Finished textured background by Mike Barrett

DrawAble: Making Layered Portraits by Mike Barrett Part Two

Self portrait cut out by Mike Barrett

DrawAble: Making Layered Portraits by Mike Barrett Part One

Start with making 5 by Rose Feather

DrawAble: Creating a Book World by Rose Feather

Mixed media image by Emma Burleigh

DrawAble: Exploring Through Watercolour by Emma Burleigh Part Three

Picture emerging 2 by Emma Burleigh

DrawAble: Exploring Through Watercolour by Emma Burleigh Part Two

Sea by Emma Burleigh

DrawAble: Exploring Through Watercolour by Emma Burleigh Part One

Using fabrics to make model pizzas

Art Club Cafe

Flying bird shadow puppets

Shadow Puppet Making and Performance

bright colours on acetate

Back – Painted Portraits

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Mark Making & Sound: Part Three

Mark Making and Sound

Mark Making & Sound: Part Two

Mark Making and Sound

Mark Making & Sound: Part One

Ink Collage Inspired by ‘The Wolf Wilder’ by Katherine Rundell

Ink Collage Inspired by The Wolf Wilder

AccessArt Drawing for Mindfulness Prompt Cards

AccessArt Drawing Prompt Cards

Andrew Amondson Vimeo Screenshot

Introduction To Forest Of Imagination

Andrew Amondson Living Christmas Tree

You And Me Make Tree

Messages written on paper and stuck on the wall by Stephanie Cubbin

Raising the Profile of the Art Department

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Being an Artist Teacher

arranging twigs into a triangular formation

Patterns with Nature

Making a scroll drawing, Drawing Projects for Children

Making a Scroll Drawing

Rachel T Shells - large muscle shape

Shells: Observational and Imaginative Drawing

Vicki Ostersen hands and feet - collaboration

Hands, Feet and Flowers

the finished mural in the Rose Hill train station car park

Collaborative Public Mural Project

Two puppets showing variation achieved through different costume designs

Shakespearean Sock Puppets

Fragment of mussel shell wedged into a groyne

Looking for Hope in the Small Things

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One Roll of Paper, Two Activities

adding smaller flowers along the top of the skirt

Botanical Fairies

getting the paints ready

Get Connected! Cardboard Robots with Movable Joints

Luca Damiani illustration of Nonna Maria in the kitchen cooking pizza and pasta with a mask

Draw your Granny and Grandpa or Any Relative You Love!

Detail from Flowers in a Glass Vase, by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (c) The Fitzwilliam Museum

Be Inspired by Flowers in a Glass Vase by Jan Davidsz de Heem

drawing an astronaut

Galaxy Painting

Missing You - Pavement piece by Rowan Briggs Smith during #lockdown 2020

“Missing You” – Pavement Art Response to #SchoolclosureUK

Arthur Beresford Jones

Drawing Large

Scale Model of Home

Home: The Little House on West Street LockDown Project

Year 5 pupils at Linton Heights make Light boxes

Inspired! Making at Linton Heights Junior School

Coloured powder paint

Sculptural Challenge No 1: Colourful Walls

Olafur Eliasson Exhibition at The Tate by Paula Briggs

Sculptural Challenge No 2: Colour, Light and Form

peeling back the paper to reveal the print

Mono Printing Session with ‘Change, Grow, Live’

stick the first hand onto backing card

Rainbows and Waves for Grey Days

Small drawing by Zak

Drawing Small

Houses grouped together

Printed Houses

Close up of the suitors - kirsty webb - inspire

Inspired! Re-Creating Cupid and Psyche in Mixed Media by Year Fives at Linton Heights

Studio - Colour - Fitzwilliam Cupid and Psyche

Inspire 2020: Introducing Colour and Egg Tempera on a Gesso Panel

Decorative Clay Coil Pots by Sharon Gale

A Progression Pathway in Clay Work

Six, ten year old children - called the Fitzy Peters from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, posing in front of a mannequin as part of the Inspire Project with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and AccessArt - photo by their teacher Natalie Bailey

Inspired! Psyche’s Resilience by The Fitzy Peters

Additive and subtractive charcoal drawing

Life Drawing Class: Visual Impressions

Drawing from Life - 30 second charcoal sketch

Research: Life Drawing & Adolescents

Year One boy at Hauxton Primary School drawing leaves with pastels with Pamela Stewart for Inspire

Inspired! ‘The Tree’ by Year One and Two at Hauxton Primary School

A clay head being created on a school table top by a Year Four pupil with school clay and wooden tools

Ofsted are Coming Tomorrow!

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Walking and Drawing

Working collaboratively

Unesco: Celebrating the Power of Making!

Climbing a ladder to paint

Children’s Community Project

Drawing and Foreshortening

Foreshortened Sketches

WILLINGHAM BOYS COLLAB PAINTING (1) Inspire Fitz

Cupid and Psyche: How a Fifteenth-Century Renaissance Panel Became the Most Loved Painting in Cambridgeshire

Psyche is blown off the hill by Zephyrus the wind - a detail in a painting by Del Sellaio of Cupid and Psyche painted in 1473

The Story of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio (1442 – 1493) 

Bubble drawing

Bubble Drawings

Minpin Birds

Flying Minpin Birds

Pastel and Rubber Chiaroscuro Drawings

Pastel and Rubber Chiaroscuro Drawings

Thinking Silhouettes

Thinking Silhouettes

Lighting up the miniworld

Mini World Light Boxes

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Wall Drawings with Tape

MPM_Painted_Clay_Spheres

Painted Clay

MPM_Classical_Inks

Classical Inks

Abstract face relief sculptures by Sharon Gale

Abstract Face – Relief Sculptures

Anthropomorphic animal paintings

Anthropomorphic Animal Paintings

Overworked with ink & nib

Nib & Ink Mark Making Still Life

Decorative Clay Coil Pots by Sharon Gale

Decorative Clay Coil Pots

'Painting' with Plasticine by Sharon Gale

‘Painting’ with Plasticine

Clay Art Medals by Sharon Gale

Clay Art Medals

Burton Hathow Ducklings by Rachel Burch

Burton Hathow Ducklings

The Wildflower Meadow by Rachel Burch

The Wildflower Meadow

Clay ‘Portrait’ Miniatures by Sharon Gale

Clay ‘Portrait’ Miniatures

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Composing Digital Music to Enhance Visuals

David Parr House, Cambridge

David Parr House – “What’s Your Space?”

Painting A Rainbow Forest by Rachel Burch

Painting A Rainbow Forest

#BeACreativeProducer Launch Night, Photograph by Mitch

Exploring Black & White Film Photography

Looking at Cupid and Psyche by Sellaio in The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Inspire 2020: Teachers

MPM_Hand Casts

Graffiti

MPM_Tall Skinny

Tall Skinny

MPM_Layers

Layers

Divided into block size squares...

The Making of: “Being Creative Builds Your Sense of Self”: A Simple Building Block Animation

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‘Meet and Make’ Teacher CPD Event and Resource Share

Flick Book Animation

Simple Animation: Making a Flick Book

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Animation Software

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The Making of: “Everyone Else is Better Than Me!”

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Nursery Night Time Collage

The AccessArt village pop-up exhibition at ARU

Making the Gift of Home this Winter

Santa Comes In All Shapes and Sizes: Yr 3 Make Bouncing Santas by Jan Miller

Santa comes in all Shapes and Sizes: Yr 3 Make Bouncing Santas!

'All that Glitters...' by Jan Miller

All That Glitters…

upside down images

Making A Creative Response – Physical to Aural

MPM_Alginate Casting

Simple Casting Techniques – by Melissa Pierce Murray

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Hand Casts

MPM_ Clay Molds

Clay Moulds

MPM_Alginate Molds

Alginate Casting

Exploring a set of rules in a related series of works

Rules and Resolutions

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Journeys

Drawing in The Dark by Andrea Butler

Drawing in the Dark: Developing a Visual Language

Sequential Hands

Animating Hands!

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#BeACreativeProducer – Animating a Demonstration!

'Gassed: For Remembrance Day' by Anne-Louise Quinton

For Remembrance Day

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Japanese Sushi Inspires Our Art

Japan: Ceramics Inspire Painting and Painting Inspires Ceramics

Japan – Ceramics Inspire Painting and Painting Inspires Ceramics

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Spotting Potential and Nurturing a Young Talent

Japan - Making Sushi Recycled Style! by Jan Miller

Japan: Making Sushi – Recycled Style!

Animated Character

The Making of: “Being Creative Helps You Tackle Challenges in All Areas of Life”

Hand Coloured Photoshop Images

The Making of: Hand Coloured Photoshop Animation Frames

Inktober Challenge, by Morag Thomson Merriman

Taking on the Inktober Challenge

Three Approaches to Drawing by Melissa Pierce Murray

Three Approaches to Drawing

The Making of: “Creativity is a Process” and Comebacks to the Ogres”

The Making Of: The “Fill Your Funnel” Scene

filming on an ipad

The Making Of: The Shower Scene

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Modelling The Head in Clay – by Melissa Pierce Murray

Painted dungarees

Collaborative Design: Making Dungarees!

PlayWorks ScrapStore

Use Scrapstores!

Screen Printing T Shirts for the How To Be A Creative Producer Project

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Modelling the Head in Clay Part 4 – Features

MPM_Skull_Developing the eye sockets, nose and cheekbones

Modelling the Head in Clay Part 3 – Skull

Modelling the Head in Clay Part 2 – Preparations

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Modelling the Head in Clay Part 1 – Armature

Drama Exercises Explore Teamwork, Cooperation, Movement & Narrative

Green screen night sky

Animating with a Green Screen

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Pimp That Snack! Large Scale Food Sculptures

Following a career in art

Messages From Creative Adults: Focussing on Art as a Career

Project 13, Lucy

Project 13

Basic Concepts in Drawing & Painting by Hester Berry

A colour wheel

Exploring Colour with Hester Berry

Teaching Children to See Shapes Objectively by Hester Berry

Introduction to Portraits by Hester Berry

This painting uses only black paint, there are no mid tones

Introduction to ‘Tone’ by Hester Berry

7 & 8 Year Olds Explore MonoPrinting & Oil Painting

7 & 8 Year Olds Explore MonoPrinting & Oil Painting

Making Papier-Mache Marionette Puppets Inspired by Characters in a Historical Painting

Making the t-shirt

Pop-Up Puppets Inspired by a Historical Painting

Inspired by Matisse

Drawing with Scissors: Screen Printing Workshop in 3 Stages, Inspired by Matisse

Choices of collage – ready-made colour and pattern.

A Year of Art Lessons with Year 3 – Introduction

CMY - Working big - SC Artworks with Scola Acrylic Paint

Painting a Bluebell Forest in Cyan, Magenta and Process Yellow on a Large Scale

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Withy Butterflies

Inspired by Edgar Degas: Printmaking, Drawing & Sculpture at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt

Inspired by Edgar Degas: Printmaking, Drawing & Sculpture at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt

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Making Sculpture Inspired by Degas

Using the pipette to drag ink across the drawing

How to Make Beautiful, Liquid Drawings Inspired by Degas

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"L'Avenue du Bois" - The Avenue of Trees in the Bois du Boulogne, by Degas, Edgar; French artist, 1834-1917; Black carbon ink on India paper, height 118mm, width 161mm, circa 1880.

Making Monotypes Inspired by Degas

Painted by a reception child aged 5 years using powder paint

Colour Wheel for Infants and Juniors

Painting with natural pinks

Primal Painting

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Sculpture from Sculpture

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An Exploration of Artwork by Shepard Fairey

Squeegee the ink through the screen mesh

Screen Printing with Screen Mesh: Screen Printing Hack

Find Your Message (To The World)

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Shepard Fairey, Propaganda Art, Screen Printing & Teenagers! Collection Page

Teenagers Make Propaganda Art Inspired by Shepard Fairey

We Want Cooperative Freedom

Screen Prints Inspired by Shepard Fairey

Horse - Rebecca

From Bones and Body to Structure and Form – by Melissa Pierce Murray

Rabbit - in clay through touch - Linda Green

Sensing Form: Using Feel to Manipulate Clay with Linda Green

#BeACreativeProducer Flick Book Animation Workshop

#BeACreativeProducer Workshop with Primary-Aged Children

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Making Sculptural “Wild Things” (Session 2 & 3)

More shapes are made from squashed bags to add weight to the wild thing and to create a shape for the head

Making Sculptural “Wild Things” (Session 1)

Adding to the shared ink drawing

Drawing our own “Wild Things” to Inhabit our Imagined Landscape

Model inspired by Where the Wild Things Are

Life Drawing Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are”

Using fingers to blend

Adding Colour to Shared Ink Drawing Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are”

Using thick and thin lines to create rhythm

Shared Ink Drawing Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are”

3. Objects are tactile, they become extensions of the body UP

To Construct…

5a Fruit project tiles

Fruit-Inspired Clay Tiles

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Fruit Pinch Pot Project

The following week, Portia set to paint her BFG

Handle with Care! Why Teaching Art to Primary School Children is Still Important

A selection of worry dolls

Making Worry Dolls

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbill Mixed Media Project

Study of Skull in Charcol

Beginning with Bones

Colourful Skeleton

Dancing Bones

Colour Mixing with different water based painting mediums - SC

Exploring Primary Colours and Progressing from Powder Paint to Gouache and Acrylic

The fisherman story, page 7

Animating Old Books

The BFG by Portia

Year 3 Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake Homework

Painting a Storm

Guided Sessions: Benefits and Practicalities

6.flower glasses

To Colour….

The AccessArt Village at Brentwood Road Gallery - working with year nine students from Frances Bardsley Academy - SC

The AccessArt Village and How a Small Idea can be Big

Painting Colours

Day of the Dead Skulls

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One Material: Sea Sculptures from Plastic Bottles

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Exploring the Sculptural Possibilities of Plastic Milk Bottles

Exploring Mark Making inspired by Where the Wild Things Are

Drawing Soft Toys Inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak

Fluid Ink - Cass

Working with Ink

Using a Magnet to Move the Filings About

Magnets and Forces

Horse - Rebecca

Two and Four Legged Creatures

A Series of Graphic Drawings

The Opposite of Light

Decorated Snowflakes

Snowflakes

Finished canvas

Making your Mark on Small Canvases

Outer shell of scale model

Making a “To Scale” Gallery

Installing artwork in the Scale Gallery

Installing Artwork in “To Scale” Gallery

Installed artwork

Draw, Paint, Build, Make: Gallery Project

1. b) exploring textures

Sensory Spaces: An Autism-Friendly Project

2a connect

To Conceal….

Still life elements in candle light - Exp teenagers - SC

Composite Still Life Studies in Candlelight

Winter Trees: Sculpture and Drawing

The Winter Tree Challenge: A Combined Sculpture & Drawing Project!

Finished house - free standing - by a year five pupil at Berry Hill Primary School, Mansfield

Making an Ink and Wax Village with Pupils in Mansfield

Explore and Draw

Show Me What You See Through Drawing

Show Me What You See: Drawing Inspired by Anglo Saxon Architecture

"Colourful and Crazy"

Sculptures with Personality, Inspired by Anglo Saxon Houses

To Connect by Sarah Evelyn Marsh

To Connect…

Portia's Lyre - Ancient Greeks - Sc

Making a Lyre Inspired by the Ancient Greeks

Leaf created with wax crayons and Brush ink with Rosie James

Wax Resist Autumn Leaves by Rosie James

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Sculpture Project Inspired by Egyptian Wall Painting

building layers

Watercolour Portrait

Mini figures

Making a Pocket Gallery

Drawing for Mindfulness at Chesterton Community College, Cambridge

Drawing as a Tool for Wellbeing at Chesterton Community College, Cambridge

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Continuous Line Drawing Exercise

Gouache Still Life

Style and Aesthetic

Balancing Observational & Experimental Drawing

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Teaching for the Journey not the Outcome

Over Printing to create pattern

Screen Printing using Overlaid Pattern

Sketchbook made of screen printed pages

Sketchbooks Made with Screenprinted Papers

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A “Wallpaper” Sketchbook – Enabling Drawing by Getting Rid of the White page

The final piece - Maiden Stack, Papa Stour, Mixed media on paper

Layered Landscapes: Working in Mixed Media on Location with Kittie Jones

Pupil at Ridgefield Primary School and her 'Archer Fish'

Fabulous Fish

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Wave Bowls

Collagraph plate inspired by inside Amphis

Collagraphs Inspired by Architecture

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Ink & Foamboard Architecture

Under the Water Mirrors - SC - Ridgefield

Under the Ocean Mirrors

Finished Oyster - Ridgefield

Making Shells

Drawing of a red ink bottle

Graphic Inky Still Life!

Ta dah! And now to see if they float!... SC Ridgefield

Making Boats that Float Out of Everyday Materials

Example of one more constraint Susie Olczak

Sculptural Constraints Workshop by Susie Olczak

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Self Portrait in Acrylic

The Geometry of Chickens!

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Graphite Sketches of Artist Retreats

Layering colours ina gestural drawing

Using Colour to Develop Gestural Drawing

Backwards forwards drawing

Backwards Forwards Drawing Exercise

Horizontal: Now drop the pencil so it's lying horizontally across the paper

The Anatomy of a Pencil

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Animated Walk Cycle

Some of Astrid's sketchbook entires _ Sketchbook ideas SC

Using Sketchbooks to Take Ownership of Ideas

My chair

Conquering SATs Stress with Seats

Bluebell forest by teenagers at AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class

Be Inspired to Inspire

Arts and Minds - Cambourne VC - Week Two - SC

“Heart-Work” an Arts and Wellbeing Project for Young People

Landscape Painting: Expressive Mark Making

Lion cast in plaster

Exploring Casting with Latex Animal Moulds

Mixing plaster: use your hand to squash any lumps

Quick Guide to Mixing Plaster

Astrid and Jasmine building their narrative in space - melissa murray

Drawing Into Space with Melissa Pierce Murray

Rafael with ink- Inky Objects workshop with Melissa Murray

Inky Objects with Melissa Pierce Murray

Questioning the canvas

Questioning the Canvas

Making charcoal animations

Animating with Charcoal

11b. At this stage squeezing the glue on is less directional. I find participants need less support with this process. Ruth Purdy

Decorative Eggs

Landscape Painting: Plein Air Painting

World in a Box

World in a Matchbox

Lady, Dog, Bird

Making Finger Puppets

Reid drawing steel and glass with Melissa Murray

Drawing with Objects by Melissa Pierce Murray

Rhythmical lines

Visual Arts Planning: Exploring Line

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Making Elastic Band Sketchbooks with Pupils at Philip Southcote School

Scolaquip - Experimenting with canvases - SC

Teenagers Paint a Canvas with Scolaquip

Mayan Project SC

Mayan Tabletop Eraser Printing Project

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Landscape Painting: Colour in the Landscape

Playing a game of association with drawing, documented on a mobile phone with photo burst app

Using Mobile Phones to Make Animated Films

Andrea Butler Stitched Drawing

Make a Stitched Drawing of a House in an Hour

The finished mural - CCC - Morgain Williams

Mural and Workshop Project at Chesterton Community College in Collaboration with Jon Bates from Blight Society

Carnival mask - SC

Making Paper Masks for Carnival and Mardi Gras

Melissa - Glow in the dark - teenagers - SC

Teenagers Experiment with Glow in the Dark Paint and Rice with Artist Melissa Pierce Murray

Bronze Arts Award: Rowan aged 11

Bronze Arts Award: Rowan aged 11

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AccessArt helps teachers at Belvue School to get ready for a Drawing Week

Belvue week three

Play and Placement: Teachers Explore Approaches to Drawing

Belvue - week two - SC

Teachers Explore Pattern, Shape & Texture with Charcoal, Graphite, Masking Tape and Pastels

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Teachers Battle it Out in Conversation with Marks on Paper

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InSET Day at Welland Academy: Exploring Printmaking Processes

Aluminium printing

Aluminium Foil Printing by Paul Carney

Arts and Minds - Cambourne VC - Week Two - SC

“Heart-Work” – A series of ‘Arts on Prescription’ style workshops for young people at Cambourne Village College with Arts and Minds; Led by Sheila Ceccarelli (Artist) and Yael Pilowsky Bankirer (Psychotherapist)

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Landscape Painting: Tone in the Landscape

Student with her ant eater sculpture inspired by the Roald Dahl poem The Ant Eater

“Plasticine Models & Decorated Plinths ” Inspired by the Book ‘Dirty Beasts’ by Roald Dahl & illustrated by Quentin Blake

Landscape Painting: A Collection of Resources by Hester Berry

Building - Cambourne - week eight - SC

Arts and Minds: Building to the Limit

Clay - Cambourne - week nine- SC

Arts and Minds: Manipulating Clay with Water

Collage - Cambourne VC - SC

Arts and Minds: Constructing the World with Collage

Arts and Minds - Cambourne - week six - monoprinting - SC

Arts and Minds: Expressive Monoprinting on a Big Scale

Arts and Minds - Cambourne - week five - SC

Arts and Minds: Drawing for Mindfulness

Arts and Minds Cambourne Village College - Week four

Arts and Minds: Feeling Through Drawing

Arts and Minds - Asemic Writing - week three -SC

Arts and Minds: Asemic Writing and Invented Text

Arts and Minds - Cambourne VC - Week Two - SC

Arts and Minds: A ‘Heart-Work’ Conversation

Arts and Minds - Week 1 - SC

Arts and Minds: Time to Introduce Ourselves – A Sculpture Challenge

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Sketchbook Exercise: Drawing Brushes with Charcoal

Laying down a ground

Filling a Sketchbook: Sketchbook Exercises

Painting by Hester Berry

Introduction to Landscape by Hester Berry

What Are Drawing Skills? by Tobi Meuwissen

What Are Drawing Skills?

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Teachers Explore ‘Line and Shape’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with AccessArt

Print Revealed

Teachers Play with Plasticine to Make Prints in the Education Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Browsing the Print Collection

Gathering Marks and Tearing Paper to Appreciate Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Making Sculptural Interpretations of 18th Century Portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Using Drawing to Get Closer to 18th Century Portraits at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Making Sketchbooks at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Using Sketchbooks, Drawing and Reflective Tools in the 20th Century Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Teachers explore armour with Kate Noble

Thoughtful Drawing and Mark Making in the Armoury at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Construction lanterns - SC

Making Giant Withie Lanterns

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Make a Model Stitched House

Drawing with a ruler

Filling a Sketchbook: Ruler Drawings

Finished construction

Collage and Construction

Experimental Drawing - SC

50 Minutes Looking and Sketching Autumn Leaves

Letter to Self - SC - Miluka

Teenagers Write A Letter, A Postcard, A Poem or A Narrative in Invented Text

Ruth Purdy - 10 top phone camera tips

Ten Top Tips to Take Superb Pictures on Your Camera Phone by Ruth Purdy

What is a Canvas? Exploration Activity

What is a Canvas? Exploration Activity

Ruth Purdy - Felt

Making Felt Sailing Boats by Ruth Purdy

Using Drawing as a Way of Understanding: University of Liverpool Veterinary Science Schematic Drawing Task.

Using Drawing as a Way of Understanding: University of Liverpool Veterinary Science Schematic Drawing Task.

Drawing with touch - SC

Teenagers Use Touch to Draw and Explore Small Objects

A student's ink work by Stephanie Cubbin

Now We Are Back

Magnetic Sculpture

Building and Drawing

Graphite over oil pastel

Feeling Our Way Around Wool

'R' for Reid - SC

Time to Introduce Ourselves – Initial Sculpture!

Marbling - Ruth Purdy

Marbling for Surface Design by Ruth Purdy

Early Primary Sketchbook Exploration

Early Primary Sketchbook Exploration

Large scale collaborative drawing activity embeds arm movments in preparation for recreating marks in the dark Sara Dudman

Lights | Camera | Action | we all love glow-in-the-dark tape! By Sara Dudman

Thinking with materials

Doodling with Stuff

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Collagraph, Collage and Stitch: Make a Image of Your Home on Fabric

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The August Creative Challenge Gallery – Week Four

Careful control of spiral

Drawing Spirals

Drawing semi-precious stones

Drawing with a Ruler

The wire was then attache dvia modroc to the band

Supersized Jewellery

Pink Pig sketchbook exploration

Developing Sketchbook Work with Pink Pig Sketchbooks

To reveal the patterns

Tie Dye

Fur Bikini-Clad Weightlifter!

Rio 2016! – Sporty / Sunbathing Dolls

Finished Sculpture

Steampunk Robots: A Kitbash Sculpture Unit

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Draw your Home: Collage, Stitch and Fabric Crayons

Ink and nib

Drawing Outside & Never-Ending Landscapes

Wooden Seat

Take a Seat Gallery

Andy McKenzie and Jan Ayton stamp printing

Block printing: Creating repeat patterns using letters with Andy McKenzie

Hands

Brushes, Rollers and Dabbers – Year 4 Pupils Use Mixed Media to Make Mark Making Tools

And for some a fully immersive experience!

Our River – Year Five Pupils Build a Communal Drawing in Four Steps

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Inspired by Christo: Mixed Media Drawings

Devising symbols

Making Large Scale, Screenprinted, Collaged, Co-Created Campaign Posters!

Shadow Puppets at Bourn Primary Academy

Shadow Puppets and Whiteboards

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Graffiti Floor – Teenagers Have a Silent Conversation with Pen and Mark

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Drawing Space/Drawing in Space

Pupil explores composition with cut out shapes and stencils

Year Three Pupils Explore Stencils, Composition and Expressive Mark Making with Oil Pastels

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Making Collographs with Andy Mckenzie: Week Two

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Making Mini Food

Teachers begin their Exploration!

Monoprinting Inspired by Goya, Turner and Cornelius in the Education Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Teachers exploring creativity at Spinney Primary School

Creativity Session at Spinney Primary School

Andy Mckenzie working with students from AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class, Cambridge

Making Collographs with Andy Mckenzie: Week One

Mark making in response to other marks

Teachers Make Mark Making Tools and ‘Battle it Out’ with Ink on a Spring InSET Day

Roll out plasticine on textured surfaces using guides, (lengths of wood of equal depth around half inch thick) - Ruth Purdy

Printing processes that use everyday materials to develop a creative focus for anyone, anywhere By Ruth Purdy

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Linking Flock Together to your Curriculum: Key Stage 5

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Linking Flock Together to your Curriculum: Key Stage 4

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Linking Flock Together to your Curriculum: Key Stage 1 – 3

lola explores Poison Tree, William Blake

Using Monoprinting and Sketchbooks to Explore GCSE English Literature Poetry

Chloe Fox Photography

Be Inspired by the Photographs of AccessArt Young Artist Chloe Fox & Join in our Photography Challenge

Joanna Grace Art and PMLD

Is choice at the heart of art? By Joanna Grace

And reveals her print

Following on Screen Printing with Andy Mckenzie

Boys get to work! Andy encourages experimenation and working by trial and error to explore screen printing

Introducing Screen Printing with Andy Mckenzie

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Art Rooms in KS1&2 Schools: The Elms Junior School

Learner in the Art room at Frimhurst, Surrey

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Kaz Trinder

Doppelganger Drawing by Paul Carney

Doppleganger Drawing

Serendipity Drawing by Paul Carney

Drawing for Science, Invention & Discovery Even If You Can’t Draw by Paul Carney

Visualisation Drawing by Paul Carney

Visualisation Drawing

Adaptation Drawing by Paul Carney

Adaptation Drawing

Trial and Error Drawing by Paul Carney

Trial and Error Drawing

Methodical Drawing by Paul Carney

Methodical Drawing

Serendipity Drawing by Paul Carney

Serendipity Drawing

Emma scores her coil ready for the next layer

Rowan: Clay Coiling Techniques to Make Penguins, Tweety Pie and a Dalek too!

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Pathway: Sculpture, Structure, Inventiveness & Determination

Samplers, Fabric Samples Met

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Miro

Animation Resources

Animation

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Wave Bowls

Sitting Marionette

Marionettes

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Sculpture Balance

The Drawing details 2 by Mike Barrett

Pathway: Exploring Identity

attached to mannequin by Paula Briggs

Pathway: Fashion Design

Click to download PDF version

Simple Easter Sketchbook

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Perseverance, Determination and Inventiveness: Building Nests

Flock Together video installation

Playing with tape, projectors, Wicky Sticks and so much more!

Figures on wall - Astronaut body casts with Gillian Adair McFarland

Astronaut Paper Body Casts by Gillian Adair McFarland

Mark paints his robin's red breast

Rowan: Making a Clay Bird from a Mould

Windrush scandal inspired artwork

Art Curriculums: How to Get Started and Avoid Overwhelm

Artist Emma Sandham King working outside her studio.

Artist Studio Series: Emma Sandham King

Developing a group of drawings - student goes on to switch between processes and drawings

Water and Rock: Teenagers explore building drawings with graphite and modroc

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Barbie & Ken Transformation

Hedgehog mask by a pupil at Milton Road Primary School

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three

Pupil from Milton Road Primary School makes her animal mask 3D

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two

Catholic Martyrs Inset

Teachers Start the New Year with Sketchbooks

Lepeord

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week One

embroidery - 5

Creating Your Sewn Square

Drawing a flame

Drawing Flames

Squeezing clay

How To Clay Play

And a dog

Long Legged Animals by Years 3 & 4 Making Club

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Life Drawing: Using Tone by Hester Berry

Hanging artwork

Art Rooms in KS1&2 Schools: Gomersal Primary School

Artwork framed ready for display at Ravello's

Art Rooms in KS1&2 Schools: Crossley Fields Infant & Junior

Battyeford Youngsters Visit James Oughtibridge, Holmfirth for 'Excellence in Clay Day'

Art Rooms in KS1 & KS2 Schools

Drawing Machines at Battyeford Primary School

Art Rooms in KS1&2 Schools: Battyeford Primary School

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Life Drawing: Understanding Foreshortening by Hester Berry

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Life Drawing: Drawing Hands and Feet with Hester Berry

Simple methods to create drama

Shipwrecked! A Shadow Puppet Play by Children Aged 10

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Paperback Figures: Collaged, Relief Sculptures

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Life Drawing: Drawing the Head by Hester Berry

Finished work by Derek

Red to Green: Wax Resist and Scraffito

Luke, learner at Red2Green delighted with his finished sculpture in the Arts Council funded Aspire to Create project

Red to Green: Making Sculpture

Learner at Red2Green drawing a skull on loan from University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology

Red to Green: Steps to Observational Drawing

Nikki revealing his print

Red to Green: Monoprinting

gesture drawing hester berry 2

Life Drawing: Capturing Gesture by Hester Berry

Tutor's Jeanette and Sharon at Red2Green look at Andrew's work

Red to Green: Block Printing

Learner at Red2Green using graphite to take rubbings of lace and natural materials

Red to Green: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

Working with wire at Red2Green

Red to Green: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Window dedicated to naturalist Leonard Jenyns at St. Mary’s Swaffham Bulbeck - photo by Aspirations learner

Aspire to Create: Inspired by Nature & Empowered by Creativity – Red to Green

Student examines his work and looks at the detail captured by the clay

Red to Green: Casting

Experimental drawing windy day

Windy Day Drawing: What was it really all about?

miluka's pleated form

3D Drawing with Paper: Texture – Surface – Structure

Production of still life drawings

Bold Autumn Still Life

hester berry five stretches

Life Drawing: A Collection of Resources by Hester Berry

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Introduction to Life Drawing with Hester Berry

Exploring form and function at D&T and Making Club

Years 3 and 4 D&T and Making Club

40 Minute Cardboard and Double-Sided Sticky Tape Engineering Challenge

alex leadbeater - pigeon artwork

Paper Pigeon Project

The goat stars again.

Teenagers Improvise a Shadow Puppet Play

Pupils took it in turns

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animating Articulated Beasts

Finished painting

Painting the Light and the Dark…

Continuous line drawing of a Hoola Hoop

Show Me The Shadows

concerto for birds and orchestra

Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra) Op.61: Images Inspired by Music

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How to Make a Simple Origami Bird by Melanie Johns

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‘Birds in the Trees’ by Pupils at Battyeford Primary School

Hedgehog

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Articulated Beasts

Museum Cuckoo; ink and gouache on paper, 56 x 76cm

In the Company of Birds

Finished articulated lion by Innes

Articulated and Animated Drawings by Teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class

“Flock” at Prospect House School, Inspired by Veronica Lindsay-Addy

Inspired by artwork by Hester Cox

Printing at Battyeford Primary, Inspired by Hester Cox

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Illustrating ‘The Jabberwocky’

Using colour and form instinctively

Paint, Colour and Autobiographical Imagery

My house - cardboard construction project

My House – A Cardboard Construction Project

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Exploration of Watercolour in the Studio

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Introduction to Watercolour

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Exploring Watercolour at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge with AccessArt

Eagle by Reid - Student at AccessArt

Sculptural Birds in Flight by Teenage Makers

Home, special toys, and a portrait to reflect love of art

Autobiographical Suitcase Pop-Up Gallery

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‘Dawn Chorus’ by Marcus Coates

Pupils very pleased with themselves! And jolly well right that they should be!

Brave Young Makers: Year Three Pupils at Ridgefield Primary Transform Materials into Birds and Insects

Fun in the playground

Making a RollerCoaster by Julia Rigby

nicola mcgovern: puffin mobile

Priscilla the Puffin: Make a Simple Bird Mobile

alexleadbeater

Making and Drawing Birds

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Colourful Sculptural Birds by Pupils at Donhead Preparatory School

yr 6 collage grid

Pattern and Collage: A Whole School Workshop at Monkfield Primary School

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Transformation Project: Cardboard and….

scrap store ribbon

A Wealth of Materials in Scrapstores

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Making Sea Sculptures at Culford School, Suffolk

Creating a sculpture out of moss, twigs, and clay by Mostyn de Beer

Making a Scarecrow Out of Moss

Make a Sketchbook, Ideas Book or Travel Journal this Summer!

Draw your mum from memory - Drawing prompt by teenager at AccessArt's Drawing Class for Teenagers

Teenagers Make Prompts to Overcome White Page Syndrome

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Inspired by Joseph Cornell: Making a Decorative Aviary Box

A Model Studio by Susie Olczak

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Painting the Storm, at Bourn Primary Academy

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Making a Collagraph Print by Suzie Mackenzie

Printmaking with Salvaged Sticky Back Aluminium Foil, Mixed Media and Cardboard

Rook – Transforming Materials

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Chimera Drawings into Beautiful Terracotta Tiles

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Introducing Sgraffito using a Coloured Clay Slip on a Terracotta Tile

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Wax Resist with Coloured Inks and Sgraffito on Foamboard

Kylie's finished piece

3D Drawing in a Frame

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How to Roll a Clay Slab

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Chimera – A Drawing Workshop with Eleanor Somerset

Manipulating Paper: Turning 2D into 3D

Book Transformation: Flock of Birds

Elspeth hugging "Lavvy"

Plinth People: Sculptural Self Portraits

The Museum of Penguins

Miniature Matchbox Museums by Anna Linch

Students from AccessArt's Experimental Drawing Class drawing the street

Street Drawing: Exploring Vanishing Points with Masking Tape

Horse

Animal Sculpture and Collage with Students at Philip Southcote School, Surrey

Ingo gathers his felt together to start to form with his hands

Teenagers Make Small Sculptures: Exploring Felt-Making and Transforming Materials

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