Welcome to the project's online 'Tool Kit'. This has been developed for use alongside the Modules. It provides additional reading and supporting evidence together with materials related to the promotion of creativity at primary level and the importance of developing a lifelong appreciation of Art as part of developing the 'whole child'.
Exploring the GCAO Toolkit
Teachers can choose from art, language or drama activities for pupils created by our project team. We also hope that teachers will devise their own activities based on one of the project themes or construct new activities, like creating computer generated images, an iBook (eBook), a piece of music/ song/ rap inspired by art or researching other galleries or pieces of art they feel illustrates this theme.
The project team has uploaded resources in English, Greek, Italian and Swedish, this is how the Toolkit is organised.
Exploring the GCAO Toolkit
Teachers can choose from art, language or drama activities for pupils created by our project team. We also hope that teachers will devise their own activities based on one of the project themes or construct new activities, like creating computer generated images, an iBook (eBook), a piece of music/ song/ rap inspired by art or researching other galleries or pieces of art they feel illustrates this theme.
The project team has uploaded resources in English, Greek, Italian and Swedish, this is how the Toolkit is organised.
Note: We also welcome contributions from other countries and these can be found on the UK pages.
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Follow this link to our first online survey |
See the next set of survey questionnaires which were created by Swedish team and used by the Greek team to support their academic papers.
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Contemporary and recent artists
There are many contemporary and more recent artists from around the world who might also be worth considering.
Click on the Contemporary Artists page to see some of them and samples of their work
There are many contemporary and more recent artists from around the world who might also be worth considering.
Click on the Contemporary Artists page to see some of them and samples of their work
The use of pigments in paintings
Pigments traditionally used by artists have been developed from plants, minerals and animals.
More recently many pigments have been manufactured artificially. Some colours were very expensive and their inclusion in a painting showed wealth. Some were controversial in their origins and some include the origin of the colour in their name eg Burnt Sienna
On this linked page you can find out more about this fascinating subject area and perhaps try some experimenting yourself to either mark make or dye materials.
Pigments traditionally used by artists have been developed from plants, minerals and animals.
More recently many pigments have been manufactured artificially. Some colours were very expensive and their inclusion in a painting showed wealth. Some were controversial in their origins and some include the origin of the colour in their name eg Burnt Sienna
On this linked page you can find out more about this fascinating subject area and perhaps try some experimenting yourself to either mark make or dye materials.
