Drawing the Portrait

A fantastic site which covers how to draw each feature of the face in detail. Check the menu at the top to access each section. Teachers could use the illustrations to help students understand the proportions of the face and head.

Tate Kids

Take a look at the games and activities on Tate Kids. You can have your own personal gallery and send in your work or choose from the Tate Gallery Collection. You can then rate the work from one to five stars.

Google Arts and Culture

Explore museums from around the world and zoom in on artworks at incredible zoom levels.

Art UK

The UK's national collection of oil paintings. Discover over 200,000 artworks from 3,000 venues.

PaperWorks

PaperWorks provides UK teachers with a range of curriculum-linked learning resources about paper. There are lesson plans with online presentations, videos and project work. Superb.

Coins in the Classroom

Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.

Artyfactory - the online Art and Design workshop

Artyfactory offers free art lessons on African masks, Egyptian art and hieroglyphs, pencil portraits, perspective drawing, logo design and colour theory.

Starfall Art Gallery

A delightful site for Key Stage 1 pupils about six famous artists and their work. It also promotes reading skills. There are literacy exercises. A good non-fiction text. More detailed biographies for Key Stage 2 pupils.

Landscape Van Gogh Style

The site discusses the techniques that Van Gogh used on a featured landscape painting and then you can make a picture yourself in his style. It lends itself well to an interactive whiteboard and there is an option to download the site to your hard drive.

How to Draw - Step by Step lessons and Videos

Tips and techniques for improving your drawing. It looks at cartoon drawing, drawing faces, perspective and more.