Year 3 - Art and design
Make frottage leaf studies
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 create frottage leaf studies using different textures and colours.
Key Notes
- Frottage is a technique of rubbing over textures to create art.
- Different textures can be found in natural objects like leaves.
- Colours can enhance the visual appeal of frottage art.
Vocabulary To Learn
- frottage: making an artwork by rubbing over a textured surface with a media to see the pattern underneath
- texture: how something feels or how something looks like it would feel
- leaf: a flat, green part of a plant, often used for frottage to capture its texture
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that they will need to always use leaves when creating a frottage. Pupils may think frottage involves drawing objects such as leaves.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Frottage is a technique of rubbing over textures to create art. Different textures can be found in natural objects like leaves.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'frottage'
making an artwork by rubbing over a textured surface with a media to see the pattern underneath.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils may think that they will need to always use leaves when creating a frottage. Pupils may think frottage involves drawing objects such as leaves. Correction: Frottage involves rubbing over textures, not drawing them. It captures the texture of surfaces rather than depicting them with lines. While leaves are commonly used, frottage can be done with various textured objects like coins or wood.
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