how something feels or how something looks like it would feel

is where an artist adds black to a colour to darken it down

is where an artist adds white to create a lighter version of the colour

is the group of colours you choose for your artwork

Explore the shades, textures and colours of a rainforest

Art and design

Artists who use the rainforest as inspiration for their artwork

Make frottage leaf studies

Collage skills using the rainforest as inspiration

Draw the rainforest: studies of plants and leaves

Paint a rainforest

Pupils will learn about different artists who used forest scapes as their subject. They will create rubbings and make a collage from  objects they have collected, before making observational drawings and developing and realising their own rainforest painting.

The Rainforest: drawing and painting

Adding black to a colour to make it darker

Adding white to a colour to make it lighter

Adding grey to a colour to make it neutral

What does a 'tint' refer to when mixing colours in art?

True or false: shading often involves using darker colours to show shadows to make a painting look more three-dimensional.

Using smaller brushes allows __________ to be added to paintings.

Triangular shapes for trunks, circles for leaves

Rectangular shapes for trunks, oval or circular shapes for leaves

Straight lines for trunks, zigzag for leaves

Square shapes for trunks, curved shapes for leaves

When sketching the trees in the rainforest, which shapes could you use to represent the trunk and canopy?

What shape is most commonly used to represent a leaf in a rainforest sketch?

What is the main purpose of shading in a drawing?

Which of the following are primary colours?

Which of the following are secondary colours?

Using small dots to create texture and shading

Using an angular, back-and-forth motion to create texture or shading

Creating a textured, scribbled effect by making circular, overlapping 

Match the drawing technique with its correct description:

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Explore the shades, textures and colours of a rainforest

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.