iPad digital painting app. Most lessons sit in CR (creative replace) because the digital medium replaces physical paint without transforming the artistic task.

Creative Amplify (CA)

Mixed-media digital collage with embedded media

Year 8 · 80 min · 1 device per student

Each student creates a digital collage on a chosen theme (e.g. memory, identity, place) combining at least three found images, two student-drawn elements and one piece of embedded text or audio. Submitted individually.

Tools: Procreate, Canva

Layered digital painting with effects and audio

Year 9 · 90 min · 1 device per student plus stylus

Each student produces a painting using at least four layers, three brush types and one effect (e.g. blur, distortion, lighting). They also record a 60-second voice-over explaining their compositional and colour choices, attached to the final piece.

Tools: Procreate

Creative Replace (CR)

Digital sketchbook of weekly observations (KS2)

Year 4 · 25 min · 1 device per child plus stylus

Each child keeps a digital sketchbook adding one observation sketch per week (e.g. a pet, a leaf, their breakfast, a family member's hand). They submit at half-term.

Tools: Procreate

Single observational digital painting

Year 6 · 50 min · 1 device per child plus stylus

Each child paints a still-life (a fruit, a small object) from observation in Procreate. Submit individually.

Tools: Procreate

Digital sketchbook of weekly observations

Year 7 · 30 min · 1 device per student plus stylus

Each student keeps a digital sketchbook in Procreate, adding one observation sketch per week over a half-term (e.g. a leaf, a hand, a chair, a face). They submit the sketchbook at half-term.

Tools: Procreate

Garment design sketches in a digital fashion app

Year 10 · 60 min · 1 device per student

Each student produces three garment design sketches in a digital sketching app for a chosen audience (e.g. winter sportswear for teenagers, school uniforms for primary children, festival wear). Each sketch includes annotations on fabric, function and target market.

Tools: Procreate

Creative Transform (CT)

A-Level portfolio with AR walkthrough of physical exhibition

Year 13 · 320 min · 1 device per student plus AR phone

Each student builds an A-Level portfolio that includes an AR walkthrough of their physical exhibition. The AR layer adds a virtual layer to each physical artwork: process video, voice-over commentary, alternative compositional choices the artist considered. Visitors view the physical work and the AR enhancements simultaneously through their phone camera.

Tools: Adobe Aero, Procreate

This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.