Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today about local landscapes and painting them.

We're going to do lots of thinking, talking and exploring together in this lesson.

So shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to use the work of other artists to inspire your own work.

Before we start, I would like to introduce you to some keywords.

We'll be using these keywords during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these words down.

The keywords we'll be using today are inspire, distinctive, style.

I'm going to say those again and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Inspire.

Distinctive.

Style.

Good job.

Now, let's think in more detail about what these keywords mean by taking a look at their definitions.

Inspire means something that makes someone want to create in a meaningful way.

Distinctive means having qualities that set something apart from others.

Style, other techniques, methods and elements that characterise an artist's work and distinguish it from others.

Pause the video here to make a note of these keywords and when you're ready to continue, press play.

These are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together in today's lesson.

Identifying key features of an artist's work and applying different artistic styles.

In this first learning cycle, we're going to identify key features of an artist's work.

Which style of landscape do you prefer? And why? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you are ready to continue.

So which style of landscape do you prefer and why do you prefer it? Are you drawn to the first one, the different shades and tints of black, grey and white? Or the second one with all those different colours? These two artists have painted the same landscape.

What do you notice? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you notice about these landscapes? Could you see that one artist has used black and white and has quite moody skies within their landscape painting? And the other artist has used bright, vivid colours and has blurred areas within their landscape painting.

But we can see that they've still painted the same landscape.

Well, even when artists explore the same subject, their artwork can look very different and this is because different artists have different styles.

So looking at this image here, this is the photograph of the landscape that the artist has created their own style from.

Can you see how they are different, the different styles? Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

When artists look at the same landscape, their artwork will look similar.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said that's false, you're right, but why is that statement false? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you discuss? Well, maybe you said that sometimes artists will make artwork that looks similar, but this is not always the case.

Artists can interpret their inspiration using their own individual style.

So exploring different styles is an important part of discovering what you like as an artist.

Sometimes artists will try the styles of other artists to learn a new technique or to learn a new skill.

When you look at an artist's work, you might want to think about what you like about it.

So what do you like about this artwork? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you like? Was it their use of colours or maybe their use of shapes? Well, when thinking about what you like about an artwork, you may consider colour, composition, mood, shapes or what it reminds you of.

Izzy says, "I really like the way the artist has used bright colours and simple, crisp shapes." Do you agree with her or was there something else that you liked about this artwork? Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Why is it important to explore different artistic styles? Is it because it focuses on one specific theme, it makes art harder to understand or it is an important part of discovering what you like as an artist? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Why is it important to explore different artistic styles? Well, sometimes artists will try the styles of other artists to learn a new technique or to learn a new skill.

So it's an important part of discovering what you like as an artist.

Do you like the style of this artwork? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and then press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think of it? It's quite different, isn't it? Izzy says, "I like the style of this artwork.

The artist has used their imagination to interpret the landscape." You might think about how the artist's style is distinctive.

Distinctive means the special features that make the artist's style easily recognisable or different from others.

What features make this artwork distinctive? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What features are quite distinctive here? Well, Andeep and Izzy are thinking about the distinctive features of these artworks.

In this one, Andeep says the colours are distinctive as they are vivid and beyond reality.

The blurred and bright style is really imaginative, but with this one, the artist uses black and white with moody skies, so that's quite distinctive to that artist.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which artwork is distinctive for its use of bright colours and simple, crisp shapes? Is it A, B or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said it's C, you're absolutely right.

This artwork uses vivid colour and clean, crisp shapes.

You might also think about how the artist has made their artwork.

Izzy says, "I think they have layered paint to achieve strong, bold colours." You might want to explore the landscape work of these artists.

Georgette Chen, "Singapore Waterfront", 1963, John Dyer, "Summer Swimmers", Penzance, Lim Kim Katy, "Gratitude", Lois Mailou Jones, "Coastal Landscape", 1992, Norman Lewis, "Industrial Night", 1952.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to choose a range of artists to explore and discuss the key features in their work.

You may wish to think about what you like about the artist's work, how the artist's style is distinctive, how you think the artist made their artwork.

So here's some examples of the different artworks you could explore.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at exploring and discussing the key features in a range of artists' work and press play when you're ready to continue.

How was your exploration? Did you find an artist you really liked? Well, you might have said something like, "I really like the dream-like dark colours of the artist Norman Lewis." Or, "I noticed that Georgette Chen used small brush marks to make the texture of the water." Or, "I think John Dyer might have used layers of paint to achieve his bold blocks of colour." Well done for identifying different key features of an artist's work.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson where we're going to apply different artistic styles.

What are the differences between these two artistic styles? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, this artwork has some similarities to the artist John Dyer.

This artwork has some similarities to the artist Norman Lewis, but they're both very different.

Sometimes artists will apply the style of different artists.

This means using the features that makes an artist's work distinctive in their own artwork.

It does not mean to copy an artist exactly, but taking one or two features from an artwork you admire.

So this artist has taken inspiration from the bright, vivid style of John Dyer.

So you can see the bright, bold colours here like in this blue, and the flat rather than a range of tones.

This artist has taken inspiration from the dark, abstract shapes of Norman Lewis.

So you can see the really dark tones here and the abstract, fuzzy shapes.

Nothing's clearly defined in this piece of artwork.

Now, this artist has taken inspiration from the realistic colour palette and range of textures of Georgette Chen.

So can we see here the realistic colour palette? So the green for the grass, but the range of textures.

Can you see how they've created that texture with those brush strokes there? And we can see the visible brush marks, those different kind of rectangle shapes there.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Artists can use the features of another artist's style in their own artwork.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said that's true, you're absolutely right.

But why is that true? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

Why is this statement true? And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you discuss? Well, hopefully you said artists might choose to apply another artist's style to practise a new technique or to practise a different skill.

Now, let's take a look at these pictures here and take a moment to pause.

Which artwork has been inspired by the artist Norman Lewis? Is it A, B or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said it's B, you're absolutely right.

This artwork has applied the influence of the dark, hazy shapes of the artist Norman Lewis.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to paint your landscape and apply the style of your chosen artist.

You might wish to choose more than one artist for inspiration.

Remember, it's about taking a couple of ideas, maybe one or two features from a chosen artist.

It's not about completely copying their style.

You can just use that as your inspiration for your own style when you're painting your landscape.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at that and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that painting? Which artists did you choose as inspiration? Well, you might have applied stylistic features similar to John Dyer, the bright, bold colours and the flat colours, rather than a use of tones.

Maybe you applied the stylistic features similar to Norman Lewis, those dark tones and those abstract, hazy shapes.

You might have applied stylistic features similar to Lim Kim Katy.

So looking at this one, the limited colour palette.

Maybe those rough textures and those smooth textures as well.

Well done for using those different artists' styles for inspiration to paint your own landscape.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about identifying and applying the influence of other artists.

Artists can interpret their inspiration using their own distinctive style.

Artists might choose to apply another artist's style to practise a technique or trial out a different idea.

Exploring different styles is an important part of discovering what you like as an artist.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.