Year 4 - Art and design
Lay the foundations for a local landscape painting
Local landscape : painting
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Unit Summary
Pupils will study a local landscape artist and make photographic records of natural or park scenes. This could include natural elements within a built environment. They will learn some basic landscape painting techniques and apply them to their own personal landscape painting.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to plan and make a sketchbook for your landscape painting.
Key Notes
- Artists can make their own concertina sketchbooks for their artwork.
- Artists might plan using a layout, where they consider the visual elements of their artwork.
- Artists can choose the scale of their landscape, either using segments, or a whole image, to take inspiration from.
Vocabulary To Learn
- concertina sketchbook: a type of accordion-folded book, where pages are connected in a continuous, folding sequence
- layout: the arrangement and organisation of visual elements within an artwork
- scale: the size of an object or element in relation to other objects
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Artists can only work in sketchbooks purchased from a shop.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists can make their own concertina sketchbooks for their artwork. Artists might plan using a layout, where they consider the visual elements of their artwork.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'concertina sketchbook'
a type of accordion-folded book, where pages are connected in a continuous, folding sequence.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Artists can only work in sketchbooks purchased from a shop. Correction: Remind children that artists can work in lots of different styles of sketchbook, including ones they have made themselves.
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