Year 3 - Art and design
Explore the shades, textures and colours of a rainforest
The Rainforest: drawing and painting
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Unit Summary
Pupils will learn about different artists who used forest scapes as their subject. They will create rubbings and make a collage from objects they have collected, before making observational drawings and developing and realising their own rainforest painting.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explore the shades and textures of a rainforest.
Key Notes
- Mixing colours creates a range of natural colours for a palette.
- Blending, sponging and stippling creates different textures.
- Tinting involves adding white to a colour to make it lighter, while shading involves adding black to make it darker.
- Using smaller brushes allows fine details to be added to a painting.
Vocabulary To Learn
- texture: how something feels or how something looks like it would feel
- shade: is where an artist adds black to a colour to darken it down
- tint: is where an artist adds white to create a lighter version of the colour
- colour palette: is the group of colours you choose for your artwork
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that mixing in lots of colours makes a better brown.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Mixing colours creates a range of natural colours for a palette. Blending, sponging and stippling creates different textures.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'texture'
how something feels or how something looks like it would feel.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils may think that mixing in lots of colours makes a better brown. Correction: Overmixing paint can lead to a muddy, unappealing colour, rather than a clean, rich brown.
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