Spyhole Pictures

You can investigate pictures by looking at a small part of the picture at a time through the spyhole viewer.

Tracing Ace

Learn how to draw in a fun way with Tracing Ace.

Art & Design at KS3, KS4, GCSE & AS/A2 Level

Julia Stubbs, an Advanced Skills Teacher, in Art and Design has produced this website of exemplar art and design work by students in the UK.

Pointillist Paintings

Learn the Pointillist technique of painting. Look at a picture painted using this technique then create a picture of your own in this way. Teachers can download the lesson pack. Lends itself to an interactive whiteboard.

Winsor and Newton Guides

Hints and techniques to enable you to explore your artistic abilities with water colours, oils, acrylics, pastels and colour mixing. You will find it in the Creative Encyclopedia. Use the drop down box to locate the techniques section.

Crayola Creative Fun

Creative craft ideas for children with instructions from Crayola. There are lesson plans for teachers too.

Web Gallery of Art

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700). You can even take virtual tours such as one to the Cistine Chapel in the Vatican.

Shape Faces

This activity introduces the form of art known as Cubism. It shows how artists use shapes to make abstract pictures. Children can then make their own face in a similar style and print it out if they want. Good interactive whiteboard activity.

LessonSense.com

Lots of teaching resources set around themes. There are craft ideas, worksheets, lesson plans and games. The site hasn't been updated for a while but the ideas are archived.

Learning at the William Morris Gallery

Workshops, displays and classes based at the William Morris Gallery give students the opportunity to explore Morris’s design processes and the ideas that informed them.