Long-term art project

[PeckSilver]

Any ideas for a long term project that is good for KS3. Something that takes a while, perhaps with lots of stages that would normally be annoying? Or something you can do and repeat each day to build up a larger piece?

Does this have to be done purely with resources you might find around a standard home which is having limited social contact? (ie a teacher setting for a class), or something for an art-mad child who already has lots of stuff at home?

How about 'A view from a window'.
Every fortnight/month

• research X painter/artist, analyse style
• draw/paint view from your window in style of the artist

Then over the time you get lots of the same view but different due to different styles and seasons.

Everyone has a window.

As a parent with a non artist, I'd want a template of what to find out about each artist:
name, dates, country, style, most famous work
'review' from the pupil (do they like the work or not with reasons)
So that could be 1 hours work
Then the next lesson produce the artwork.

Or documenting this whole pandemic through various mediums. DD is 5 and we're encouraging her to keep a diary and getting newspapers to keep.

Hopefully this will be a hazy memory to her when she is grown up but we want her to have some record of it because it will be a major historic event. Something that will be covered in history lessons 30 years from now.

Like the window over time thing. We have a fair amount of resources at home. I was wondering if something papier mache might be good as there is plenty of time for drying. Have a bought blank jigsaws so we can all decorate pieces and our together, maybe one piece a day.

Make your own simple sketchbook:

Fold A4 piece of printer paper in half and fold in half again.

Do this to a second piece of paper.

Glue 4th rectangle of paper 1 to 1st rectangle of paper 2.

You now have a zig zag 'sketchbook' with 7 A6 size 'pages'

Complete 1 or 2 page per session.

45 mins minimum on each page. Emphasise detail .
Art has only 1hr PW here so that's a few weeks work.

Pupils choose from a list of activities ideas - a different one for each page - set by you.
Observational drawing, artist research, pattern, graphic design, collage... link to the topic you would have done in school at this time.