Year 4 - Art and design
Scrap fabric microrganism collage
Hidden worlds: collage and mixed media
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Unit Summary
Pupils will investigate micro-organisms & create observational drawings in pencil, charcoal and watercolour paint, before creating prints & pictures in mixed media collage.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a fabric collage inspired by a petri dish.
Key Notes
- Artists might use the colours and textures that they observe in a subject.
- Artists might use a dark background to provide contrast to the bright colours of their main subject.
- Different types of fabric can be combined in an artwork to create different colours or textures.
Vocabulary To Learn
- colour palette: the group of colours you choose for your artwork
- texture: the feel or appearance of a surface
- background: everything that is behind the main image, or images, in an artwork
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The fabric colour palette selected should precisely match the colours present in the petri dish.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists might use the colours and textures that they observe in a subject. Artists might use a dark background to provide contrast to the bright colours of their main subject.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'colour palette'
the group of colours you choose for your artwork.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: The fabric colour palette selected should precisely match the colours present in the petri dish. Correction: Remind children that artists might choose to take inspiration from a similar colour palette of fabrics, rather than those that match exactly.
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