Lesson Two – Sunflowers

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise painting the shape of a sunflower to replicate and match the specific painting style and techniques of a famous artist.

The class can identify and explain how Van Gogh used special brush strokes for thickness and direction to illustrate different objects in his paintings to use when developing their own artwork.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise painting the shape of a sunflower to replicate and match the specific painting style and techniques of a famous artist

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the painting style and techniques used by a significant artist and paint examples of a real world object following the style of a significant artist and a template to practise painting the shape of an object to match the artwork style of Van Gogh.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to paint the shape of a sunflower to replicate the painting style and techniques of a famous artist.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate and replicate the work and painting style of a famous artist from the past by producing a matching landscape of the school building. 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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