Quick fire tools for encouraging pupil engagement with pictures:

•Speech bubbles

Print a copy of your chosen artwork (with people) and display on the table.  Talk about what is going on.  Cut out speech and thought bubbles for the people to show what they might be thinking or saying.  Stick them on the picture. 

•Questioning an artwork

Stick a copy of your chosen artwork in the middle of a large piece of paper. Look closely at the artwork and write around it as many questions as you can think of around the picture.  Which questions can you answer easily? Which questions need more information? Which questions have no answer? How did this make you think differently about the picture?