S2 pop art still life inspired by Roy Lichtenstein. Learning intentions; composition, guidelines/proportions, and painting #studentteacher #popart #pgde

peaceful protestors (made by the lovely pupils at art club) have now been hidden in the art department corridor - can you find them? ☮️ 🙋🏻‍♀️ #studentteacher #peacefulprotest #collage Linlithgow Academy Art Dept

some fabulous S2 examples of reductive drawings from today! Learning all about tone and media handling 👩🏻‍🎨🌈 #artistteacher #studentteacher #pgde #chalkpastels

Primary school visit yesterday and today, and was lucky enough to do some art with P1s and P6s! First up, beautifully painted Chinese dragon masks by P1 🤩🐲 so impressed by their brush control 👏🏼 #studentteacher #pgde #primaryschool #art #chinesedragon

Really enjoyed the opportunity to visit a primary school this week. Today P6 did some wax resist art with the stimulus of “spring” - beautifully done! 🌈🐇🌷 #spring #waxresist #studentteacher #artteacher #pgde #primaryschool

some finished S1 cyborg portraits 🤖 (some pupils used celebrity photos, hence the beard in one of the photos lol) I’m so proud because they had never done portraiture before this! #studentteacher #pgde #portraiture #tone #artanddesign

artist copies of Alison Watt and Lucian Freud by S3 pupils exploring different techniques and using acrylic for the very first time. It was amazing to see their confidence and skill develop throughout the project 🙌🏼 #studentteacher #pgde #artistteacher #artanddesign

as my last ever student placement comes to an end, the S2 cohort have finished their monoprinting project with me, inspired by the local area of Linlithgow #monoprint #studentteacher

Some fantastic responses to Daydream Believers “Something from Nothing” activity in my Wider Achievement class 👏🏼 this was great fun on a Friday afternoon!

Just home from a dry needle felting workshop with #arranvisualarts and safe to say I’ve found myself a new hobby! Pretty proud of my first attempts & love developing my own practice as an art teacher 💓

S1 have now completed their notan art for #mathsweek where we learned all about how Maths can be used in Art & Design - focussing on symmetry, shapes, positive & negative space! Don’t they look fab 🤩

S2 Social Subjects pupils have been learning about the Treaty of Versailles and the issues that it caused post WW1. Pupils made their own replica of the treaty which was then dipped into coffee/tea to give it an authentic look! Huge thanks to Miss Stewart for your help!!

S2 have completed their 10 week architecture project. There was a LOT of learning before we even got to the building stage and it definitely shows😍 So proud of them!

Beautiful expressive folio final piece #wip by one of my N5 pupils! Celebrating our island #isleofarran and using exclusively a palette knife to make all that lovellyyyy texture 🙌🏼

S1 graphic design inspired by Saul Bass. A lot of my pupils love Star Wars so I ran with that as the basis of my project, perfect timing for the new season of The Mandalorian coming out soon 🪐⭐️ #edutwitter #isleofarran #artteacher #saulbass #graphicdesign

Recently completed S1 drawing tests - what a talented bunch of artists I have the pleasure of teaching 🥹

Happy staff book swap day at Arran High School 📚💙 The whole point was to try something new and not judge a book by its cover (hence why I wrapped them all up) - excited to read my new book!

My S1s & I had a really open & honest discussion about why it’s important to celebrate #IWD2023. I used strategies I learned from Beyond Equality Gina webinar about tackling misogyny from the likes of Andrew Tate - restorative approaches only in this classroom 💙

What a great day we had yesterday at the Arran Heritage Museum with S1 pupils Arran High School! Thanks very much to all the volunteers! Thanks also to Miss Stewart for coming along to help in your last full week! All of the pupils will miss you after a fantastic year!

A huge thank you to Richard and Gillian from Robert Gordon University (RGU) School of Architecture for coming in to speak to our S2’s for their Creative Industries architecture project at Lochside Academy! It was really insightful hearing about your careers in the sector 🤩