Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms. Nadia, and I'm very excited to be teaching you your art lesson today.

I hope you really enjoy it.

Today, your learning outcome is that by the end of our lesson today, you will be able to say, I can create a paradise scene inspired by an artist.

You have two keywords today.

Your first keyword is paradise.

The word paradise is somewhere that you feel safe, calm, and happy.

And the word composition means the way that elements are arranged and organised within an artwork.

So your two keywords are paradise and composition.

Your lesson is going to be split into three parts today.

Our first part of our lesson today is called, "Your paradise." In a moment, I'm going to ask you to turn to your partner and discuss how this image makes you feel.

Okay, so now I'd like you to do that.

So turn to your partner and discuss how this image on the screen makes you feel.

So let's hear from Andeep and Laura.

Andeep says, "It makes me feel relaxed and calm." Laura says, "It makes me feel happy and safe." Can you see all the palm trees? And the blue sky.

There's mountains in the background and you've got this lovely blue river flowing through, and the beautiful flowers around the edges of the water.

Paradise means a place that you feel really special, safe and happy.

It could be a real place or an imaginary, make-believe place.

It could be a place where you feel calm, joyful, or even excited.

It could be a place that you feel peaceful and quiet.

Can you answer this question? A person's paradise must be real.

Is that true or is that false? That's false.

Did you get that right? A person's paradise can be real or it can be imaginary.

So it can be a made-up place.

Andeep is thinking about his idea of paradise.

Can you see the image? We've got books.

We've got a nice deck chair to sit on.

It's a sunny place.

And there's water, and there's fish and fruit and a guitar! Andeep says, "I'm thinking of a place that makes me feel calm.

It has lots of fresh fruit to eat, books to read, and it's by the ocean.

It also has my guitar to play music." Laura is also thinking about her idea of paradise.

What do you think Laura's idea of paradise is? Discuss this with your partner.

Laura says, "I am thinking of a place that makes me feel safe, where I can see the stars and the moon.

It has fairy lights, my favourite blanket and teddy, and my diary to write in." Did you mention any of these things when you discussed this with your partner? Did you spot the moon and the stars and the fairy lights, and that adorable little teddy sat on the blanket? I'd like you now to complete this sentence.

You're going to fill in the gap and you've got four different options of words to place in that gap.

Which one is correct? Paradise means a place that feels really special, safe and happy to, is it A, everyone? Is it B, you? Is it C, artists? Or is it D, others? Let's take a look at the answer.

It's to you.

Did you get that right? So paradise means a place that feels really special, safe and happy to you.

So remember that paradise can be anywhere that makes you feel happy and peaceful.

So we looked at two examples, didn't we? We looked at Andeep's example of a paradise.

And we looked at Laura's example of a paradise.

And they felt special just to them.

Right, so, what I'd like you to do now for your first task of our lesson today, Task A, is to take turns to discuss with a partner what your paradise looks like.

I wonder what ideas you are going to come up with and your partners.

So have a little think before you have that conversation with your partner.

Is it a real place or an imaginary place? Is it a place where you feel calm, joyful, or excited? Is it a place that you feel peaceful and quiet? Remember, you're taking in turns to discuss with your partner what your paradise looks like.

So I wonder what your idea of paradise looks like.

You should have discussed your idea of paradise.

In this example, "My idea of paradise is being by the sea, next to a fire, with a warm cup of chocolate and marshmallows!" Oh, doesn't that sound incredible? So now, we are going to be moving on to the second part of our lesson today, which is called, "Mix your own colour palette." A colour palette is a group of colours that are chosen to use in a piece of art.

Artists pick a colour palette to help their artwork feel a certain way, such as calm, happy, warm or cool.

Many artists have represented paradise through their art.

Some artists are Melencio Sapnu and Horace Pippin.

Melencio Sapnu's idea of paradise is that he paints beautiful pictures of nature, like palm trees, fields, and colourful skies.

His paradise is calm and beautiful.

Horace Pippin painted pictures of things that were important to him, such as his family, his community, and peaceful places from his imagination.

Can you answer this true or false question? Melencio Sapnu's work could show how much he loves nature.

Is that true or is that false? The answer is true.

He paints beautiful pictures of nature, like palm trees, fields, and colourful skies, which could show that he loves nature.

What I'd like you to do now is to close your eyes for a moment and imagine a tropical paradise like in Melencio Sapnu's painting.

Now you can open your eyes and have a look at the colour palette that has been created based on his painting.

We have got pink tropical flowers, lush green leaves, yellow glowing sun rays, red parrot feathers, pink sunset sky, blue flowing waterfall, and orange to represent the sunset sky.

Now close your eyes once more and imagine a woodland scene with animals like in Horace Pippin's painting "Holy Mountain, I." How did that make you feel? On our colour palette, we have blue night sky, dark green woodland tree, brown cow's fur, grey wolf's fur, black woodland night, and a gold for the lion's mane.

And finally, we have yellow woodland flower.

What do you notice about the artists' use of colour? Have a look at their similarities or differences.

Horace Pippin uses dark, earthy colours, whereas Melencio Sapnu uses bright and vibrant colours.

They're very different, aren't they? But they both represent a paradise to that particular artist.

Can you fill in the blank in this sentence? The possible answers are listed below as A, B, and C.

Horace Pippin uses blank colours in his paintings.

Is it A, bright, vibrant? Is it B, dark, earthy? Or is it C, warm, bright? Have a little think and place the correct words in the sentence.

And the answer was dark, earthy.

So the sentence should say, Horace Pippin uses dark, earthy colours in his paintings.

Laura is remembering how to mix colours.

So Laura begins with the primary colours, red, yellow and blue.

"I know that the three primary colours can create hot and cold colours." And she also has a white and a black colour.

"I will need white and black too so that I can make lighter and darker colours." Do you know how to mix colours? Laura is thinking about hot and cold colour palettes.

"I remember that hot colours feel warm like the sun or like fire." So here, we have yellow, orange, and red, which are all warm colours.

"Cold colours remind me of water or ice and winter." And so here, we have purple, blue, and green to represent the cold colours.

Laura is creating a colour palette for her paradise.

Do you remember her paradise? It was this lovely calm, night scene.

So, she has a little think and she thinks about what makes her feel happy or peaceful? The colours of things she would love to see, hear, or do there.

She then labels the colours with what they represent.

Laura collects the materials she needs to create a colour palette.

So first, she collects her paint.

She has the three primary colours, red, yellow, and blue, which she can make many warm or cold colours with.

And she also collects the white and black paint to make her lighter and darker shades of colours.

She then collects a sketchbook or a piece of paper.

And finally, she collects a paintbrush and some water.

Laura then creates a colour palette for her paradise.

Can you see the colours that she's mixed? How do you think they represent her idea of paradise? Well, here we have a very dark blue night sky.

It's so dark, it almost looks black.

Here, we have green trees at night.

And my favourite light blue blanket.

We have a brown that she has created by mixing all the three primary colours, red, yellow, and blue, which represents her brown teddy.

And she also has the yellow, which represents her fairy lights.

Can you answer this true or false question now? Primary colours can create different hot and cold colours.

Is that true or is that false? The answer is true.

You can mix primary colours, red, blue, and yellow, to make warm colours like orange and cool colours like green and purple.

For your second task today, which is Task B, I would like you to create a colour palette of the colours that you would like to include in your paradise painting.

Before you complete your task, I'd like you to have a little think about what makes you feel happy or peaceful? The colours of the things that you would love to see, hear, or do there.

I would like you to label your colours with what they represent, just like Laura did in her example earlier.

Good luck with this task.

I hope you really enjoy it, and I hope you manage to mix all of the warm or cool colours that represent your idea of paradise.

I will be here when you've completed the task.

How did you get on with your task today? You could have created a colour palette like this.

Did you think about what makes you feel happy or peaceful? Did you think about the colours of the things that you would love to see or hear or do in your idea of paradise? And did you remember to label the colours with what they represent? The third part of our lesson today is called, "Creating your own paradise art." Aisha is planning a painting of her idea of paradise.

In her idea of paradise, she's going to have a tree house, flowers, her cat, nature, sunsets.

So, what Aisha does next then is she creates something called a composition, which is a light sketch on her page to plan where things will go.

So this is called a composition.

However, Aisha changes her mind about her composition, and now she would like to add a cat.

What advice would you give to Aisha? One thing you may have said, for advice for Aisha, is that it's important to keep your sketch light so that you can rub out your lines easily when needed.

So then in this case, it would be easier to add a cat without having to leave lots of dark pencil lines behind.

Here's a question for you.

Lightly sketching your ideas help you to, is it A, change the composition? B, add lots of detail? Or C, to draw neatly? And the answer is A, to change the composition.

Lightly sketching your ideas help you to change the composition.

When painting, it's a good idea to paint the background first before adding the features on top.

Aisha said, "I waited for the paint to dry so that the paint did not smudge." Once the paint is dry, you can add the other details.

And doesn't this look stunning with all the details added? What details did Aisha add in? Have a good look.

Can you see what details she added? When painting, it is important to let the background dry first because is it A, it is quicker? Is it B, it stops the paint from smudging? Or is it C, it helps the paint to mix together? And the answer is B, it stops the paint from smudging.

So when painting, it is important to let the background dry first because it stops the paint from smudging.

We're about to begin Task C now.

You are going to create your own painting of your paradise.

Before we complete the task, I'd like you to have a really good think about lightly sketching out the composition first.

Can you remember why we need to sketch out the composition lightly? It's so that you can change your composition if you decide you want to add something in.

I also want you to think about starting the background and allowing that to dry first.

And can you remember why we need to let it dry first? It's to avoid it smudging before you add those further detailed layers on top.

I'd like you to try and mix the primary colours together to create other colours.

You can also use white and black to make your colours lighter or darker.

Good luck with your task.

Enjoy it.

It sounds like really good fun.

And I'm excited and looking forward to what your paradise paintings look like.

So now you should have completed your paradise painting.

How did it go? I hope it went really well.

Here's an example of what your paradise painting may have looked like.

We are almost at the end of our lesson today, and to summarise our lesson, which was to respond to artists' idea of paradise, I would like you to take some key points away with you today.

Artists make creative choices about colour, shape, and composition to show their ideas.

And we looked at how to create compositions, didn't we? And we also talked about how it's really important to create the lines of your composition very lightly so that it's easy to change if you decide to add something in later.

You can look closely at artworks to identify how artists represent an idea.

So, for instance, we looked at a couple of artists' work today.

We looked at Horace Pippin, and we also looked at Melencio Sapnu.

And we saw that their ideas of paradise were very different to one another.

Artists are inspired by places, dreams, stories, or nature when they're imagining their idea of paradise.

And we saw that, didn't we, through the two artists' work that we looked at today.

We can respond to artists by making our own visual interpretations.

So today, you created your own visual representation of what paradise looks like to you.

And not only did you create the composition, you also mixed the colours and created a colour palette of warm or cool colours, and you also looked at what those colours could represent in your painting.

I hope it all went really well for you today.

I really hope you enjoyed our lesson.

I did, and hopefully, I'll see you again very soon.