26 April: Exploring Line and Shape with Paul Klee

·        Warm-up: Quick line-drawing exercises (blind contour, continuous line)

·        Main Activity: Create cityscapes inspired by Paul Klee using pencil, ink & acrylics

·        Skill Focus: Mixing the palette; line quality; geometric composition & colour harmony

Reference artwork- ‘Cityscape’ by Paul Klee

3 May: Creating volume in paint- Caravaggio

·        Warm-up: Shading fruits and leaves.

·        Main Activity: Sketch a still life using a section of Caravaggio’s ‘Basket of Fruit ‘as inspiration

·        Skill Focus: Value scales, blending, light and shadow.

Reference artwork- ‘Basket of Fruit’- Caravaggio

10 May: Seasonal Landscapes with Van Gogh

·        Warm-up: Expressive marks using a variety of brushstrokes

·        Main Activity: Create bold, colourful landscapes in Van Gogh’s expressive brushstroke style.

• Skill Focus: Expressive mark-making, colour application.

Reference artwork- Seasonal landscapes by Van Gogh.

17 May: Surreal Imagination with Rory Dobner

·        Warm-up: Sketching out ideas, combining 2 images together- pencils and inks

·        Main Activity: Drawing out a surrealist image of a an animal by RB

·        Skill Focus: Creativity, surrealist composition, fine ink details.

Reference artwork- Rory Dobner prints

7 June: Street Art with Jean-Michel Basquiat

·        Warm-up: Free-drawing symbols and words that represent themselves

·        Main Activity: Large-scale expressive paintings inspired by Basquiat using acrylic and ink and pastels

·        Fun Element: “Tag It” – design personal symbols and signatures like graffiti artists.

·        Skill Focus: Symbolism, layering, and energetic mark making.

Reference artwork: a selection of collages, graffiti, and symbolism by Basquiat.

14 June: Fantasy Worlds with Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli Inspired)

·        Warm-up: Design an imaginary landscape using pencils. Practice characters.

·        Main Activity: Create a fantasy landscape in acrylics and add in characters to tell a story.

·        Skill Focus: World-building, storytelling in art, mixed media.

Reference artwork: a selection of images from Miyazaki film stills.

21 June: Pop Art - Andy Warhol

·        Warm-up: Colour block painting practice.

·        Main Activity: Create a bold, repetitive acrylic painting of a common object in a pop art style

·        Skill Focus: Bold colours, graphic composition and repetition.

Reference artwork: ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’

28 June: Painting a still life- Helena Schjerfbeck

·        Warm-up: Drawing bowls and fruit

·        Mani Activity: Replicate one of a selection of still lifes by Helena Scjerfbeck.

·        Skill focus: Ellipses, shadows, negative space, colour matching, Less is more.

Reference artwork: ‘Green Still Life’, 1930

5 July: Colourful minimalist architecture and people- Christabel Blackburn.

·        Warm-up: Sketching line drawings people, angles and architectural perspectives.

·        Main Activity: Drawing out composition and mixing a colourful acrylic palette to create a bold artwork.

·        Skill Focus: Mixing contemporary colours, Drawing shapes and perspectives. Simplifying shapes and mixing bold colours.

Reference artwork: Galleries and pavement series

12 July: Skies and sunsets- Claude Monet

·        Warm-up: Quick impressionist-style colour mixing on small paper

·        Main Activity: Create an impressionist sky with acrylics, using dabbing techniques.

·        Paint with brushes and sponges.

·        Skill Focus: Colour mixing, soft marks, atmosphere, mixing colours on the paper.

Reference artwork: Houses of Parliament, River Thames paintings.

19 July: Cubist Portraits - Pablo Picasso.

·        Warm-up:  Practicing elements of a Picasso portrait, sketching out distorted shapes

·        Main Activity: Creating a portrait with cubist elements.

·        Skill Focus: Flat features, Layering shapes with colour and outlines.  Imagination.

Reference artwork: Portraits of Jacqueline

26 July: Optical Illusions - M.C. Escher

·        Warm-up. Pattern doodles to create illusionary effects,

• Main Activity: Create tessellation-based drawings inspired by Escher

• Fun Element: “Impossible” challenge

• Skill Focus: Precision, mathematical art, optical effects.

Reference artwork: ‘Relativity’ by Escher