Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Color Theory and Exploration
"Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet" -Paul Cezanne Color is one of the most fascinating areas of painting, and one of the most difficult to teach. For many years I simply introduced...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Contour Drawing
Another warm up exercise Use this drawing exercise as a warm up, or to teach observational drawing skills in your students. Provide students with objects to draw, plant forms are always good, as are...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Blind Drawing
Using touch not sight to guide a drawing Use this as a warm up exercise to overcome fear and to discover the other senses involved in drawing. Again, this exercise is not intended to create portfolio...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Figure and Animal Drawing
Drawing the human figure teaches so much about looking. If your school will allow it, hold a weekly figure drawing session, during class or after school. If you don't have a model, the students can take...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Art and Money
A TOK/Art discussion topic The art world is fed by pretension and desire as much as by talent, and value is associated in what often appears an arbitrary and incomprehensible manner. Why is it that people...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Celebrity Artists
British artist Damien Hirst is the world's richest artist and the Tate's big retrospective marks the height of his power. Hirst's atelier has been turning out dot paintings since 1986, and by the artist's...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Art and Originality
What does it mean to be original? Can ideas be owned? Does a signature make a work of art? In this section you will find observations on the idea of originality, Jim Jarmusch's manifesto on Nothing is...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Art and Values
What are the standards for good art, or is it just a question of taste? Here are some of the issues addressed in this section: I think it's pretty clear today that the artist does not carry any moral...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Nothing is Original
When we look at works of art, we inevitably think about things that we have seen, heard, or experienced before. Art is rarely created in a vacuum. Artists constantly reference the past—building on timeless...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Digital Drawing Debate
Today, artists are using all kinds of digital technology to make images. Let take one example of a very simple use of technology that may challenge our ideas about "fine art": British Artist David Hockney...