The Artist's Toolkit
www.artsconnected.org/toolkit
Artists use visual elements and principles like line, colour and shape as tools to build works of art. The Artist's Toolkit helps students learn about these concepts in a variety of ways. Explore the Toolkit with animations and interactive modules. See Artists in Action as they create compositions using the visual elements and principles. Delve into the heavily illustrated Encyclopediato learn more about the elements and principles.

Arts Alive
This site from QCA has been developed as part of the promotion of creativity in the curriculum. It gives contextual background information to the website, findings from research into the arts. There are useful case studies of arts in practice in schools, together with guidance for arts teachers and subject leaders.

National Curriculum in Action
This website uses pupils’ work to show what the national curriculum in art and design looks like in practice.

Art and ICT.
A brilliant site featuring inspirational ideas for using ICT to create artwork.

Assessing Children’s Progress in Art and Design  by e-gfl

Painting the Weather
Themes - The Sea, each Season as well as all tpyes of weather.

ArtisanCam
See artists at work, learn how they do it and have a go yourself.

Take one Picture
A cross curricular approach to learning and teaching using a single image as a starting point for classroom discussion and project work.

Artists in Schools
Providing artist run workshops in schools to meet National Curriculum programmes of study requirements and attainment targets

Scheme of work for art and design key stages 1-2
This scheme shows how the art and design programme of study for key stages 1 and 2 can be translated into manageable units of work.

Worcestershire's - The Digital Palette (UK)
Using ICT in Art with examplars at each Key Stage
www.content.networcs.net

Thoughts on Art and ICT. A thought provoking page arguing that when 'working in the style of' children should be taught to think like the artists they are emulating rather than simply copying their techniques and styles. A set of guidelines for teachers to help follow this principle when using activities discussed in the article above.