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 identify and analyse shapes, lines, and patterns, and colour within an image.

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 formal elements, shape, line, pattern, and colour.

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

Formal elements, shape, line, pattern, colour.

Good job.

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

Formal elements are the basic parts that artists use to make pictures.

Shape is a flat figure or form that has boundaries.

Line is a mark made by a moving point, such as a pencil or brush.

Pattern is a design in which lines, shapes, forms, or colours are repeated.

And colour refers to the different hues of colour that we might see in an image.

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: analysing shapes and lines from a landscape, analysing pattern and colour from a landscape.

In the first learning cycle, let's explore analysing shapes and lines from a landscape.

The formal elements of art are the basic parts that artists use to make pictures like shapes, lines, colours, and pattern.

Artists will sometimes analyse the formal elements of an image to get a better understanding of it.

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

The formal elements of art include pattern, shape, line, and watercolour, colour, pattern, shape, and line, shape, line, pattern, and paint brushes? Pause the video here to give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you are ready to continue.

If you said colour, pattern, shape, and line, you're absolutely right.

The formal elements of art don't refer to materials or tools.

What shapes do you see in this image of a landscape here? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What shapes could you see? Shape is one of the formal elements.

A shape is a flat figure that has boundaries like a circle, square, or triangle.

Can you think of any more shapes? Hmm, pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What could you think of? Perhaps a rectangle or a hexagon.

Those are also shapes.

But shapes can also be irregular or organic.

By combining different shapes like circles, squares, or triangles, artists can make objects, people, or patterns.

You may remember that there are two types of shapes, geometric shapes, and these shapes have straight lines, angles, and do not appear in nature, and organic shapes, and these shapes do not have straight lines.

They are irregular and they are found in nature.

So going back to this image here, this landscape, you might have noticed these shapes here.

Are these organic or geometric shapes? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? That's right, these are organic shapes.

This artist has identified these shapes within their landscape.

What do you notice? Hmm, pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

What do you notice about these shapes? Press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you discuss? Well, hopefully you saw that some of the shapes have soft, curved outlines, and that's what we find in those organic shapes.

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

Artists combine different shapes to create images, patterns, and designs in their 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.

Artists use a combination of organic and geometric shapes in different sizes and arrangements to create images, patterns, or designs in their work.

Now, what lines can you see in this image? Hmm, pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What could you see? Well, hopefully you might have noticed these horizontal lines.

Can you see those there in purple going across that landscape? And you might have also noticed the vertical and diagonal lines of the branches in the tree.

You see those there.

This artist has identified and analysed different lines within this landscape.

Can you see here? What do you notice about those? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you notice about those different lines? Well, the artist has analysed the lines that they see by drawing using different materials.

Can you see here they've got different colours and different shades of those colours there? When artists analyse the formal elements, they might experiment with different materials, and this allows them to see how materials can change the way shapes, lines, patterns, and colours look or feel in their artwork.

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

Which image shows the artist analysing line, 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 A, you're absolutely right.

The artist has analysed line here using different materials.

This brings us to our first learning task.

Using your chosen landscape, I'd like you to analyse the shapes you see within your image.

And then using your chosen landscape, I'd also like you to analyse the lines you see within your image.

You may choose to work in your sketchbook or on paper, and you may choose materials such as watercolour and coloured pencil for analysing shapes and lines or maybe some materials of your choice.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go analysing the shapes and analysing the lines within your image and press Play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Well, you might have noticed shapes like this, shapes with curved edges, similar shapes throughout the landscape, and more regular shapes for the roads or hedges.

Then for the lines, you might have noticed vertical lines for the trees, maybe horizontal lines in the landscape for roads or fields, maybe used a range of materials to analyse your line.

Well done for having a go at analysing the shapes and lines from within your landscape.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're going to analyse pattern and colour from a landscape.

What patterns do you see in this landscape image here? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What patterns could you see? You might have noticed patterns in these parts of the image.

So zooming in here, looking at the hedges, or maybe looking at the trees, or looking at the grass.

Patterns can be any repeated line, shape, or colour.

This artist has found patterns within their landscape.

What do you notice about these patterns? 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 them? Could you see any repeated line, repeated shape, or repeated colour? Some of the patterns are made from simple shapes, although they are not perfectly repeated.

In the landscape, the pattern repeats, but sometimes the shapes, colours, or lines are slightly different.

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

In nature, patterns are perfectly repeated.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

Press Play when you're ready to continue.

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

But why is that statement false? 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 in nature, patterns sometimes repeat but the shapes, colours, or lines are slightly different, then you're absolutely right.

Well done.

What colours can you see in this image? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What colours could you see? Well, this artist has found a range of colours within this landscape.

We've got greens, browns, blues.

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

What did you notice? Well, the artist has matched colours using watercolour paint.

Can you see that from the swatches there? When analysing a landscape, an artist might want to mix the colours that they see.

By mixing and recreating the colours in a landscape, the artist can make their artwork more realistic or imaginative.

This can help the viewer experience the landscape in the same way that the artist did.

Colour matching might take a few tries to get it right.

Now, you might wish to explore colour in the work of these landscape artists: Jo York "Storm Song," Carol Naylor "Download Vistas," Norman Cornish, "Figures before Eddie's Fish and Chip Shop," and Singh Twins "Indian Summer." So these are all artists who use colour in landscapes.

Now, Andeep says, "I really like the use of the dark and moody colours you can see in the work of Jo York." And Sofia says, "I'm going to take inspiration from the bold shapes and patterns of the Singh Twins." Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which image shows the artist matching colours, A, B or C? Pause the video here to give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

If you said C, you're absolutely right.

The artist has tried lots of different ways to make the colours that they see.

This brings us to our final learning task.

Using your chosen landscape, can you analyse the pattern you see within your image? And then using your chosen landscape, analyse the colour you see within your image.

You may choose to work in your sketchbook or on paper, and you may choose materials such as watercolour and coloured pencil for analysing colour and pattern or maybe some other materials of your choice.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at analysing the pattern and the colour of your chosen image and press Play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, you might have analysed patterns by creating patterns with the circular shape, some spiky patterns for grass or hedges, and more regular patterns for the roads or fields.

And maybe when you're analysing the colours, you created these different versions here, a bright blue for the sky, a variety of greens for the grass, all those browns and yellows for the fields and trees.

Your final sketchbook might include something like this with the image of your landscape in the middle, the shapes you found in the landscape, the lines you found, the patterns and the colours.

So well done for having a go at analysing the shape, lines, patterns, and colours of your landscape.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about analysing a local landscape through the formal elements.

Artists will sometimes analyse the formal elements of an image to get a better understanding of it.

When artists analyse the formal elements, they might experiment with different materials.

By identifying the formal elements, an artist can help the viewer experience the image in the same way that they did.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.