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The iPad provides us with endless possibilities for innovative teaching and profound potential for learning.  However, the iPad is such a poweful tool that introducing apps and workflows into units requires art teachers to see beyond what the iPad can do, beware of the ‘wow...

The Foldify app allows you to create a printable ‘origami-style’ 3D model of a work you create. Use your own drawings or photos, or the bits and pieces in the app, to produce a paper masterpiece.  You can combine so many of your own elements in combination with...

‘Let’s Create Pottery’ is a great addition to any ceramics or pottery unit.  The experience of throwing clay on a wheel and moulding a vessel on a spinning turntable is recreated in stunning HD.   Although the muddy mess is gone (and I don’t intend to...

Year 6 Mythical Monsters Unit – Art & Apps in Action! iPad apps are so valuable in a diverse course that aims to introduce students to as many making processes as possible.  In this unit, monsters from a wide variety of cultures and eras are the stimulus for paintings,...

By using this simple app to create interesting mandelas, students can grapple with a variety of art terms and concepts.   Explaining layering is easy with this app in the hands of students and the effects of changing elements such as size, position and shape are made explicit. ...

Apps that allow students to trial processes virtually can be powerful tools for teachers. This post is all about lesson seeds that include ‘hands on’ apps as valuable teaching tools for printmaking. Using the iPad to as part of a printmaking unit allows students to...

The great thing about the Ukiyoe Printmaking app is the ability for teachers to use it to virtually trial the processes involved in lino cutting or wood block printing. These processes can be hit and miss for some students – once marks are make with cutting tools they are...

Using the iPad camera and apps makes the process of abstraction explicit. These photographs come from one student’s folio of investigations while on an excursion to the art gallery. Students walked around exhibits and snapped shots of the sculptures using apps such as MegaPhoto...

The PlayArt app allows students to mix and match elements of famous works by well know artists to create new and interesting compositions. Surrealism is an obvious link, as Monet’s garden blooms with Miro’s mobiles and Van Gogh’s sunflowers are picked by Rousseau’s monkeys. When...