Here are some inspiring slideshows and on-line activities, to accompany this year's Lesson Plans.

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo first started painting by doing self-portraits, and she painted some fifty-five of them through her life. Her most recognisable facial feature was her pair of long eyebrows.

Here is a slideshow of self-portraits by Frida Kahlo.

Proportions of face and body, illustrated and described:

About.com provides useful descriptions of facial proportions as well as children's body proportions.

British artist Martin Dace has created a flash animation which shows body proportions changing with age, from birth to adult.

Here is a slideshow of Patterns in Nature, photographs by John Sweeting, for Kids Art Works.

Here is a slideshow of abstract paintings by Bridget Riley.   Much of Bridget's art has been classified as 'Op Art' because it creates optical illusions.

Bridget can be seen here posing with a couple of her paintings.

Diagrams and Mathematics of Tesselations:

Here are a couple of sites providing more information about tessellations, including terminology, varieties of tessellations and their mathematics:

www.coolmath.com/tesspage1.htm and http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html.

Online Tessellation-making activity:

Jo Edkins has provided some sample tesselation patterns; as well as online interactive tessellation-making using squares or triangles, and to create a snowflake tessellation and an Escher-style tesselation.

 

Visit our Further Links page for links to further online material relating to this year's lesson plans, and to art in general.