Lesson Six – Flower Painting

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to select and work with a range of special colour shades when creating a still life painting of a vase filled with flowers.

The class can practise mixing and using paints to illustrate some of the different shapes and colour shades that can be seen in a range of flowers as represented in artwork.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and work with a range of special colour shades when creating a still life painting of a vase filled with flowers

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the shapes and colours used in paintings of flowers and the different colour shades that have been used in the painting of a Vase of Flowers by Paul Gaugin and a worksheet to follow a set of instructions about how to use lines and shapes when painting representations of a vase of flowers.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to select and utilise a range of colour shades to create a still life painting of a vase of flowers.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to develop and refine skills in representing different types of flowers grown in a garden by using a range of painting techniques. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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