Artist's Yearbook for Children & Teens (A4 book)

The Artist's Yearbook is perfect for all children. After all, every child is an artist! The curriculum is very much a template. It prompts, inspires and gently guides whilst leaving plenty of space for your artist to interpret everything in their own unique way. The pack can be worked through entirely at your own pace although there are twelve sections which would work well at a monthly pace.

Each section begins with an artist study. This will entail independent research and the recording of information to produce a profile. The section then moves on to invite children to look at two examples of the artist's work. They will then need to find out about the pieces and make notes of their thoughts and opinions. After looking specifically at the media and techniques used by the artist they will then choose and reproduce another piece by the artist. At this point children are invited to create their own masterpiece 'in the style of' using all the information they have accumulated about the artist. Spaces intended for your artist to create a piece also have a small plaque for them to name and sign their work. There's then a gently guided art activity that focuses on using a particular media or using a particular technique. Each of the sections finishes off with two prompts which are intentionally very open ended so that your artist can freely interpret them and create as they wish.

The Yearbook concludes with a guided reflection which gives children the chance to look back over their work, identify successes and consider their challenges and areas of improvement. In some cases your artist may wish to complete an artwork on card, coloured paper or other material and then stick the finished piece in. For some projects it will be appropriate to take a photograph of their finished piece and stick that in rather than the piece itself.

This resource can be enjoyed by children of all ages and abilities. Younger children can have help with research and recording whereas tweens and teens can complete the artist studies and projects more independently. Children can write in as much detail as they like and their responses to the art activities and prompts will be at their own level. This pack is ideal for older children who love art but perhaps need a gentle path to help them structure their interest.

The artists covered in this pack are:

Albert Namatjira

Piet Mondrian

Andy Warhol

Rosa Bonheur

Banksy

Jackson pollock

Pablo Picasso

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Anthony Gormley

Georgia O’Keeffe

Katsushika Hokusai

Steven Brown

The activities in this pack are:

Aboriginal Dot Art

Lego Block Art

Pop Art Printing

Pastel Blending

Chalk & Charcoal

Marbling

Block Colour

Playdough & String Sculpture

Clay Sculpture

Musical Movements

Potato Prints

Colour Wheel