Resources and Inspiration
Feed your creativity
Creativity and the psychology of creativity are a fascinating topic for anyone engaged in creative work, students or teachers. Try some surrealist games, oblique strategies, tackle a creative block or write a manifesto! Take a peek inside Sketchbooks and Studios to see their working processes and reflect on creativity in a broad sense.
There are also resource pages on Visual Arts in Education, advice for aspiring artists, tips and links for showing films, slideshows, talks, and, especially for you, a much needed focus on you the Teacher as Artist.
Like the basket of figs dipicted in this Roman wall painting at Villa Poppaea, please help yourself and enjoy!
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Artists' Sketchbooks and Studios
This section is not specifically about the Visual Journal but a chance to look at some artists sketchbooks past and present,...
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Advice for the Aspiring Artiste
This page is especially geared towards students who are thinking of going to art college and/or becoming an artist.Many...
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Creativity
Creative means original, expressive, inventive, innovative, imaginative, handmade, ground-breaking, generative, to give...
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Teacher and Artist
But we are also teachers, and the teaching of art requires a multitude of abilities; intellectual, practical, artistic,...
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Applying to Art School
This page is a resource compiled for students who want to continue their art studies after the IB ( and for their dedicated...
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Visual Arts in Education
The study of visual art, its processes and ideas, is a journey that offers rewards beyond the creation of art itself. Art...