Lesson One – Colour and Light
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record how artists can use a range of special colour shades to suggest different times of the day that can be represented in paintings.
The class can create some example colour wheels listing the shades of colour that have been used in a painting showing a specific time of the day such as sunrise and midday.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how artists can use a range of special colour shades to suggest different times of the day that can be represented in paintings
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe how artists can use colour shades to represent light seen at different times of the day and a template to identify and record special colour shades that can be used to represent times of the day in a painting,
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record how artists can use special colour shades to suggest different times of the day in paintings.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to develop and practise different painting techniques when creating a landscape portraying a scene in the local area as part of the school neighbourhood. 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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