Paint 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

Explore the shades, textures and colours of 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

Composition refers to the __________ of the different elements in an artwork such as the shapes, objects or colours.

Which painting technique has been used here?

Which of the following are primary colours?

A colour palette is the group of __________ you choose for your artwork.

The way a surface looks or feels, like rough, smooth, or bumpy.

True or false: adding white to a colour is known as tinting.

True or false: adding blue or black to a colour is known as shading.

Jacob mixes equal parts red, yellow and blue. What colour does he make?

Exit Quiz

Composition refers to the __________ of the different elements in an artwork such as the shapes, objects or colours.