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 tints, shades, and a variety of paintbrush techniques to achieve different effects.

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 tint, shade, effect.

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

Tint, shade, effect.

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

Tint is created by adding white to the original hue of colour.

Shade is created by adding black to the original hue of colour.

And an effect is a result produced by using materials in different ways.

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.

"Making tints and shades." "Using a paintbrush for different effects." In the first learning cycle, we're going to have a go at making tints and shades.

What is the difference between these two colours? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? What was the difference? Well, this colour is a tint.

This means that white has been added to a hue of colour.

This palette shows a range of tints.

More white has been added to the hue of colour to make it lighter each time.

So can you see the hue there that we started with? And then we have these tints and a bit of white has been added each time to make it lighter.

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

Tints are made by adding grey.

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 statement is false, you're absolutely 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? If you said artists can make tints by adding white to a hue of colour, you're absolutely right.

It's not by adding grey.

Now, what tints of colour do 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 could you see? Well, hopefully you've spotted a blue and we've got a different tint of blue here, and even lower it's got lighter.

So we've got three tints of colour there.

You might have noticed that the sky has some different tints of blue.

You have to look really closely to see how it's got lighter the further down it's gone.

Now you might have also noticed that there are different tints of brown and yellow.

Let's take a look at those here.

Can you see the different tints? Tints can also be seen in the beach huts.

You have to look really closely at these different colours.

Can you see the different tints of those huts? This artist is making tints from their landscape in their sketchbook.

And you see that here.

So taking one colour.

And what do you notice? What are they doing with that colour? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you notice? What is this artist doing? Hopefully you can see the artist is experimenting by adding more white to their paint, by making those lighter tints.

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

Which image shows tints? 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 B, you're absolutely right.

White has been added to these hues of colour.

What is the difference between these two colours? Hmm.

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

What difference could you see here? Well, this colour is a shade.

This means black has been added to a hue of colour.

This palette shows a range of shades.

More black has been added to the hue of colour to make it darker each time.

Can you see the hue there at the beginning and how each shade has got darker as we add black? Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Shades are made by adding white.

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 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 discuss? Well, hopefully you said that artists can make shades by adding black to a hue of colour, not by adding white.

What shades of colour do you see in this image? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to continue.

Well, maybe you could see these shades here.

We see those along the picture.

You might have noticed that the cliff has shades of green and brown.

You might have also noticed that there are different shades in the sand, and we see those there.

This artist is making shades from their landscape in their sketchbook.

What do you notice here? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think about this, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you notice? Hopefully you could see that the artist is using watercolour paint to make shades, and she's making those shades by adding black.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to have a go at finding and mixing tints you see in your landscape photograph, and then find and mix shades you see in your landscape photograph.

Now remember, to make a tint, we add white, and to create a shade, we add black.

But don't add too much black, add a little bit at a time.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at finding and mixing those tints and shades in your landscape photograph, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? How did you get on? Well, your tints might look like this.

They might be matched to the colours in your landscape scene, and they might get lighter as more white is added.

And then you might have made tints like this artist in your sketchbook like this.

Your shades might look like this, might be matched to the colours in your landscape, and those shades have got darker as more black has been added.

And you might have made shades like this artist here in your sketchbook.

Well done for having a go at making those tints and shades in your sketchbook based on your landscape photograph.

Now we're ready to move into the second part of our lesson, "Using a paintbrush for different effects." Paintbrushes are a versatile tool.

This means they can be used in lots of different ways to create different effects.

Jacob is experimenting with the different effects he can create with his paintbrush.

Now you can roll your paintbrush along your paper to create this type of effect.

This might be useful for a jagged clifftop.

You can dip your paintbrush in two different colours of paint so the colours blend together.

This effect might be useful for the layers of sand and rock in the cliff.

You can also use your paintbrush on its point to create small dots.

This effect could be useful for showing the areas of pebbles on the beach.

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

Which image shows the effect created by rolling a paintbrush? 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 that's A, you're absolutely right.

Rolling a paintbrush gives a rough edge, which might be useful for a jagged cliff or rocks.

This artist has used a dry paintbrush.

This means they've taken a lot of their wet paint off with a tissue before using it.

This gives the watercolour a more textured effect.

The artist now tries layering wet paint over dry paint.

Because the artist has used watercolour, laying paint can help to create depth.

The layer below is dry, so the painted lines are defined.

What do you think will happen if the artist uses wet paint on wet paint? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What do you think? Well, the paint will spread and blend as the surface is still wet.

This is called bleeding.

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

Which areas of the image would be best for painting with a wet-on-dry effect? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, the grass has defined lines, so wet on dry would work best here.

The tree also has a defined shape, so wet on dry would be best here.

So I'm gonna have a go now at using wet on wet to create the soft effect of the sky.

I'd like you to have a go at that too, so pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at creating the wet on wet to create the soft effect of the sky, so think about those blues and whites there, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, you may have noticed that the sky has a soft texture, so that's why wet on wet would work best.

Hopefully you created a wash of blue first and then added shades as a layer on top.

You can continue to explore different ways to use a paintbrush.

You might look at other artists to give you ideas.

Jacob says, "I used Lois Mailou Jones as my inspiration because she paints with bold brushstrokes and colours.

I particularly liked her work 'A Shady Nook: Le Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris' which she made in 1991." Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

A paintbrush can only be used for one effect.

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 absolutely right.

But why is that false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you discuss? Maybe you said a paintbrush can be used to create many different effects, such as dry-brush and wet or wet.

Well done.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to use your shades and tints from Task A to experiment with a range of different effects you can achieve with a paintbrush.

So here's some of those techniques here.

You can use dry-brush, you can use wet on wet, or you can use that wet on dry.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at experimenting with those range of painting effects using your different tints and shades, and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Which painting effects did you prefer the most? Which ones were easier or maybe a bit trickier? Well, your sketchbook might look a little bit like this.

Maybe you rolled your paintbrush.

You've done the dry-brush effect.

Maybe you've done the dots of paint or a wet-on-wet effect.

Hopefully your page is full of different experimented effects.

I think I really like the wet-on-wet effect, especially how it bleeds into those colours.

Well done for having a go at using a paintbrush to create these different effects.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about exploring a variety of painting techniques.

Artists can create tints and shades that they see within a landscape.

Tints are made by adding whites to a hue of colour, while shades are achieved by adding black.

Paintbrushes can be used to create many different effects, including blending, dry-brush, and wet on wet.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.