Flower Gallery

This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and model how to select, mix and use shades of colours using a range of artwork techniques in a still life painting of a vase of flowers. The class identify special vocabulary words to describe the shades of colour seen in flower petals.

Explore and model how to select, mix and use shades of different colours using a range of artwork techniques in a still life painting of a vase of flowers

Lesson One : What Colours

Identify, describe and compare the range of colour shades that have been used in a still life painting of some special types of flowers

Lesson Two : Colour Collages

Explore how to select and use a range of special materials to produce a collage showing the shades of different colours that can be seen in some types of flowers

Lesson Three : Colour Mixing

Investigate and record some of the different colour shades that can be mixed together by using red, yellow and blue paints to represent petals seen on flowers

Lesson Four : Light and Dark

Explain and practise some different ways of mixing colour shades to show areas of light and dark in a painting of some special types of flowers

Lesson Five : Vase of Flowers

Investigate how to select and use special methods of mixing primary colour shades to produce a still life painting of a vase of flowers

Lesson Six : Art Gallery

Explore how to review and evaluate the shades of different colours that have been used in a painting of a vase of flowers

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