LINKS AND RESOURCES
Resources, Ideas and challenges from around the World
Here are some sites which are always around. Providing an invaluable resource for anyone interested in, or practicing any kind of creative art :-). Do get in touch if you have any others you would like to share on the contact page
ART TECHNIQUES AND PROJECTS
Our painted lives, painting tutorials, that look at tonal painting, light and discusses WHY we paint. American based in Columbia. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHupLsLZF7tlrBLRKPWqXrw
Paint a still life on a window sill –
How to use felt tips to paint
Short videos simple cartoon drawings by childrens book illustrator Rob Biddulph on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/drawwithrob?epa=HASHTAG
Amazing Belgian Artist Vincent Bal shadow artist and illustrator check out his You Tube videos for some great playful ideas !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NInkH0ukCOI
Mixing painted collage and drawing,
https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/Illustration/1633/how-to-mix-art-with-illustration
Lydia Monks, children’s illustrator for Ladybird books, offers tips and skills for budding illustrators.
YOUTUBE – Why is Drawing important ?
Art projects for all ages (mostly free). This one is about Art Journals (sketchbooks) and why and how to use them
Access Art, A short online sketch book course looking at projects for working at home
https://www.accessart.org.uk/sketchbooks-an-online-course-for-children-families-parents-teachers/
Lots of art and artist projects and teaching resources on National Portrait Gallery site
https://www.npg.org.uk/learning/schools-and-colleges/news#hockney-resource
Tate Kids, games and projects.
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids?fbclid=IwAR1pLaAIJ0JyXvI14u9bwtDizNex_9bPIN38miRbdCjIErBchdDHOy6vtXY
Colossal and brilliant resource for the arts, articles, artists, projects
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/category/art/
Toilet roll sculpture !!
Don’t forget the huge BBC teach resources, curriculum mapped !!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach?fbclid=IwAR11iUAhuDORdo_QZnN9-ivBzfQvC5ZzPObRvK65LArrtxhEt93dEImenFE
Art and Design advice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6hs34j
GCSE AND A LEVEL EXAM UPDATES AND ADVICE
AQA -
PEARSONS (EDEXCEL)
https://qualifications.pearson.com
OCR -
Student Art Guide - Lots of advice and examples for GCSE and A level students, very inspiring!
https://www.studentartguide.com/
Art Pedagogy. Amazing/exciting ideas and resources from Chris Francis, Senior Leader/Teacher of Art & Photography, St Peter's School, Bournemouth, and Jon Nicholls, Director of Arts & Creativity/Teacher of Photography, Thomas Tallis School, London. Building an art community and a much-needed revolution to promote and rejuvenate art teaching.
https://www.artpedagogy.com/about.html
Pinterest GCSE themes, shared by teachers and students
Pinterest A Level themes, shared by teachers and students
ART REFERENCE, LINKS TO OTHER DATABASES
British Library resource on Childrens books. Amazing resource !!
https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books#
Art films, on Waldemar Januszczak’s (art critic and historian) page. Most to pay for but he has some for free. This week Manet’ and 'Paradise Found'.
1. Go to - https://zczfilms.com/on-demand/
2. Find the films
3. Click on the price button
4. Sign into Vimeo
5. Choose ‘Rent’
6. Apply promo code: waldyforfree
Open culture site with thousands of free courses, online videos, animations, HUGE !!!
Guggenheim museum releases over 200 art books online for free
General list of free online, boredom busting resources, anything for life cams of Edinburgh Zoo and virtual tours of over 500 museums and galleries, plus computer coding games, languages and science and nature sites
YOUTUBE Georgia O’Keefe 294 paintings in slide show
Faces of Frida Kahlo, huge resource for art and art history. And just like Google Earth you can zoom into and understand the painting and their technique more. Also find surprise things in some of the backgrounds
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/frida-kahlo
Kids Time Digital Library free for the rest of the school year.
https://time.com/tfk-free/?fbclid=IwAR0tXS9JVZxJ-hVOpk_8q0BuMlaYsL1wplogJsE8W_bGDKJLrf-jYvcWyuA
list useful for art, craft and design educators, parents & carers to help children and young people studying the art and design curriculum or level 2-3 qualifications. The resources are categorised by age (for all phases: ages 4-18+) but many resources are cross-phase – do look inside the resources in every age group!
https://www.nsead.org/resources/remote-resources/
COMPETITONS !
Royal Academy – deadline April 2024
https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/
Encourage young people to write a terrific scientific poem and then enter the IF Oxford Poetry of Science competition. Prizes include books and science kits. Follow the web link in the picture for full details and an entry form:
www.if-oxford.com/poetry-competition/
Inspired by the exhibition Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things, which celebrates performance, creativity and self-expression, we invite students to get involved and enter portraits for the chance to have work on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
To receive details of how to enter, please email education@npg.org.uk for your competition pack.
VIRTUAL MUSEUMS
MISCELLANEOUS
Microsoft and Mojang release free Minecraft Education pack (free until June 30th 2020)
Like to decipher handwriting and help Librarians and archivists from home ?
And finally, some light relief. A History Of Cartoon Music (1928 – 2020), played for you by pianist and tutor, Lord Vinheteiro (https://lordmusicacademy.com/?lang=en)