Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today about our spaces through drawing and painting.

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 create a charcoal drawing of a building.

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 note these words down.

The keywords we'll be using today are charcoal and blending.

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

Charcoal, blending.

Good job.

Now, let's take a look at what these words mean.

Charcoal is a black material made by burning wood.

Blending is mixing colours or shades together smoothly.

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

There are two more keywords we're going to be using in today's lesson.

These words are value and complex forms. I'm gonna say those again and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

Value, complex forms. Good job.

Let's find out what these words mean.

Value refers to how light or dark a shade is, including black, white, and greys.

Complex forms are shapes that have lots of parts or details.

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.

Mark-making with charcoal and drawing buildings using charcoal.

In this first learning cycle, we're going to explore mark-making with charcoal.

Have you seen this material before? Do you know what it is called? Pause the video here, have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Have you seen it before? Well, this material is charcoal.

Charcoal is a black, lightweight material made by burning wood.

Charcoal is used for cooking, heating, drawing, cleaning and is used in medicine.

In art, charcoal is used to create drawings.

Charcoal is a great tool for artists to create drawings because it can make dark and light marks, helping to create value and textures.

Lucas and Andeep are talking about the different charcoal drawing techniques.

Andeep says it can be smudged or blended, and Lucas says it can be used to create lots of different marks.

He says that it can create both light and dark lines too.

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

Charcoal can make dark and light marks, helping to create value and textures.

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 that's true, you're absolutely right.

Charcoal is a great tool for artists to create drawings because it can make dark and light marks, helping to create value and textures.

Lucas wants to use different charcoal techniques to add texture to his drawings.

He already knows about bold and soft lines.

What other techniques can Lucas use? Hmm.

Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

What other techniques could Lucas use? And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, one technique you could use is scumbling.

When scumbling, you create circular lines with your drawing tool pressing down lightly and with more pressure, moving the shapes further and closer apart.

You could also do cross-hatching and hatching.

When hatching and cross-hatching, you create horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines on top of each other by pressing down lightly or with more pressure and moving the lines further and closer apart.

We can also do blending.

When blending, first, shade the area using light strokes and then use small circular motions with your finger or a cotton bud to blend smoothly.

You can try to just use one finger to blend or it can get very messy.

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

Which image shows scumbling, A, B, or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said C, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

Now, let's have a go at making some hatching and cross-hatching using that charcoal.

Experiment with it in different directions, pressing down lightly and with pressure.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to make marks using hatching and cross- hatching like you can see in my experiments there.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Hopefully, you notice that by pressing harder it makes the lines darker.

That cross-hatching can add texture and the change in the direction affects the shading.

I can then make marks using scumbling.

Experiment by pressing down lightly and with some pressure.

Can you see where I may have pressed more lightly or with more pressure? Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to make some marks using scumbling, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, hopefully, like Andeep, we're moving the circular lines closer and further away from each other, making the scumbling get lighter and darker.

Now, we're making marks using blending.

Remember to keep one hand clean and only blend using your finger.

So pause the video here and some marks using blending.

Remember to first shade a little bit of the charcoal on the page, then use your finger to blend out, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? <v ->Well, Andeep used a cotton bud to blend the smaller areas</v> as his finger was a bit too big and he noticed that the shading with more charcoal makes the marks darker.

How did you find it? Was it the same for you? Value is how light or darker shade is.

It helps make drawings look more realistic by showing depth and shadow.

Can you see the different values in this charcoal drawing? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

Could you see those values? Where was it showing that depth or shadow? Well, this is the value scale.

Can you see that there are different values created in this charcoal drawing? We've got darker and we've got some of those greys in those different shades of it.

Artists use different charcoal techniques to add value to their drawings.

For example, through scumbling, where you may start with pressure and then gradually remove the pressure to create that value.

Then you can see with hatching and cross-hatching, it starts with lots of overlapping lines, and then gradually as you reduce the lines, it gets lighter.

And that's the same with blending.

You start with using pressure to apply the charcoal and use your finger to blend, and then you gradually reduce the amount of charcoal and use your finger to blend to get those lighter values.

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

Artists use different charcoal techniques to add to their drawings.

What do they add? Do they add colour, value or lines? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said value, you're absolutely right.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to use charcoal to create a value scale using each of the mark making techniques.

So using cross-hatching, scumbling, blending, and make sure that you start with the pressure and then gradually remove the pressure to create those value scales.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at this learning task, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, you might have created something that looks like this and the value scale, it starts off with dark and gradually gets lighter.

You see here that Lucas created different values by adding more or less pressure and drawing the marks closer together.

Well done for having a go at making your own value scale using those techniques of scumbling, cross-hatching and blending.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're now going to explore drawing buildings using charcoal.

What lines can you see within this building? Pause video here and have a quick discussion with your partner and press play when you are ready to continue.

What could you see? Well, Andeep says, I can see thick and thin lines that overlap to create the windows.

Could you see those two? Line and shape are two of the art elements.

So we've got line here and we've got shape.

When drawing, it is important to identify the lines and shapes that come together to represent what you are drawing.

Lucas and Andeep are discussing the lines and shapes that they can see in this building.

Andeep says, I can see three triangles that make the top of the building and rectangles that make up the base.

And Lucas says, the building is made up of lots of simple shapes combined, and this is called a complex form.

Take a look here at the highlighting, you see those triangles and then those rectangles.

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

Which shape would you not use to draw this part of the building, A, B, or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said C, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

This part of the building has triangular, square and rectangular shape.

There are no circles.

There are many artists who use charcoal to draw buildings.

Dennis Crefield was an artist who used bold, messy charcoal lines to draw famous buildings like cathedrals, making them look full of energy and life.

Jeanette Barnes is known for her large charcoal drawings that show expressive mark-making and layering techniques.

Miriam Innes is an artist who makes big, detailed charcoal drawings of cities.

She uses a soft blending technique.

The students are researching artists to inspire their charcoal drawings.

I could use dark expressive shading like Dennis Crefield.

I could use bold, sketchy lines like Jeanette Barnes to show movement in my building.

I could use soft blending like Miriam Innes to create shadows and depth.

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

Miriam Innes is an artist who makes big, detailed charcoal drawings of flowers, cities or fruit.

Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said cities, you're absolutely right.

Miriam Innes is an artist who makes big detailed charcoal drawings of cities and she uses a soft blending technique.

When drawing artists first decide on their subject, this can be in real life or they can take a photograph of their subject with a device or camera.

The subject here is a cottage.

What other subject might an artist draw? Pause a video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you are ready to continue.

What other subjects might an artist draw? Well, it could be anything.

It could be an animal or a flower or a fruit.

Lots of different things.

Artists first draw out the basic shapes of their subject using their chosen media to create a complex form.

What basic shapes would you use to draw this cottage? Hmm.

Pause the video here, give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, Andeep says the big shapes like the squares and triangles would help to get the shape of the house right and then you could start to add the windows, doors, and textures with the charcoal.

So they then add value by shading the dark areas.

The dark areas are for the shadows.

Can you see how the artist on this cottage has created that value with the dark areas? The artist then continues to add value by shading the grey areas.

Now, the grey areas here are called the mid tones, and you see where they are on that cottage.

Whilst adding value for the darker tones, Andeep accidentally broke his charcoal or he pressed too hard.

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

What could Andeep do differently? That's right.

He could press a little bit lighter, couldn't he? Now, let's take a look at this statement here.

When using charcoal, it is important not to press too hard.

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 this is true, you are absolutely right.

Charcoal is a lightweight material and it breaks easily, so we have to be careful about how hard we press.

The artist then adds texture and value using charcoal techniques.

So how could Andeep add texture and value here on this cottage? The artist uses scumbling and cross-hatching to add texture and value to their charcoal drawing.

You can see here the cross-hatching on the roof and the scumbling used for the hedges and the greenery around the door.

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

Can you order the steps to creating a charcoal drawing and explain each step? Pause the video here.

Give yourself time to do that with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

How would you order these? So it would be first B, to draw out the basic shapes.

Then it would be A, to add value by shading the dark areas.

Then it would be D, we'd be adding those mid tones.

Then it would be C, adding texture and more value.

Well done if you got those in the correct order.

we're able to explain those steps.

Which charcoal technique do you think should be used for the roof? Should it be bold and soft lines, scumbling, hatching and cross-hatching or blending? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think the artist should use? Well, the artist has decided to use bold and soft lines and cross-hatching to create texture for the roof.

And you see those lines there, and then the cross-hatching and hatching too.

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

To make the outline of the house stand out, you could use bold and soft lines, scumbling, hatching and crosshatching or blending.

Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? if you said bold and soft lines, you're absolutely right.

Well done.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to create a charcoal drawing of a building of your choice inspired by a chosen artist such as Jeanette Barnes, Dennis Crefield, or Miriam Innes.

Firstly, take a photograph of a building or sit opposite it.

Make the complex form more simple by identifying the basic shapes first.

Draw out the basic shapes.

So here, we've got that image and can you see how the basic shapes have been drawn out? So here is the sketch there.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at creating a charcoal drawing of a building of your choice and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Were you able to draw your building? Now, using charcoal, I'd like you to add value to your drawing of a building.

So add value by shading the dark areas, add those mid tones and add texture and more value using those mark-making techniques.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to do that and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, you may have got a drawing like this, and maybe you've noticed that the artist used a rubber to lighten different areas and that this is called a tint.

Maybe used bold, sketchy lines like Jeanette Barnes to show movement in the building.

Well done for having a go at that learning task and drawing your own building using charcoal.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about drawing buildings using charcoal.

Different charcoal techniques can be used to create value and texture to drawings.

Buildings are made up of multiple simple shapes combined together to create a complex form.

And artist use different techniques like blending and erasing when drawing with charcoal.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.