Lesson Three – Colour Swatches

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and record how to select and mix a range of different colour shades to work with in a landscape painting depicting a specific time of the day.

The class can practise mixing groups of colours to show the matching shades that might be visible in the sky at sunrise or sunset when illustrated in artwork of a landscape.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and record how to select and mix a range of different colour shades to work with in a landscape painting depicting a specific time of the day

Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to describe how artists can depict light and shadow in artwork of different landscapes and differentiated templates to select and record a range of colour shades that can be used to represent a specific a time of day in a landscape painting.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to mix a range of different colour shades to use in a landscape painting depicting a specific time of the day.

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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