Developing ideas collaboratively through manipulating source material
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can combine paper techniques and manipulate source materials.
Key learning points
- Collaboration brings together individuals with different backgrounds, experiences, and artistic viewpoints.
- Diversity can lead to richer and more nuanced ideas that a single artist might not conceive alone.
- Collaborating allows artists to pool their resources, whether that’s access to materials, tools, or knowledge.
Keywords
Respond - to react or engage with something
Develop - to take an initial idea and expand, refine, or improve it over time
Combine - bring together two or more techniques, materials, or ideas
Reimagine - take an existing idea, artwork, or object and reinterpret it in a new, original way
Common misconception
Reimagining work means simply copying the original in a slightly different way.
Reimagining is about transforming the original work, changing materials, scale, techniques, or context to create something new that still connects back to the starting point.
Teacher tip
When encouraging pupils to reimagine their work, remind them to focus on transformation rather than repetition.
Equipment
Paper types, paint, oil pastels, sewing machines, needles, thread, paint brushes, pins, tape
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - equipment
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.When responding to an existing artwork, what is the best approach?
Q2.Which of these paper techniques could you combine to create richer textures and forms?
Q3.True or false? Once you have learned one technique, combining it with others is unnecessary.
Q4.What does it mean to develop an artwork?
Q5.If you cut up a photo of a paper still life, rearrange it, and paint over it, what technique are you using?
Q6.Select 3 ways artists might manipulate source material.
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