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A video that shows the artist Andy Goldsworthy creating art using nature and the environment.

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Artist Andy Goldsworthy talks about and demonstrates creating artwork in a natural landscape using natural materials. Working on site in a quarry, Goldsworthy makes an abstract drawing on slate and shows how a 'rain shadow' can be made on stone during wet weather. He explores the temporary nature of some landscape artwork and the effects which can be produced there.

Pupils could brainstorm how to create art in a natural environment and record their ideas. Reactions to the temporary element of Andy Goldsworthy's work could be gauged. Pupils could be questioned about the idea of one piece of work being washed away by the rain and a rain shadow becoming another piece of work. It could also be used as an introduction to a wider topic on Goldsworthy's work in stone and wood. Pupils could do some rain shadows and photograph the results. The idea of using slate to create marks on slate could be experimented with and the idea of reviving a work could also be discussed.

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Andy Goldsworthy - art in a natural environment - KS1 Art and Design - BBC Bitesize

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Artist Andy Goldsworthy talks about and demonstrates creating artwork in a natural landscape using natural materials. Working on site in a quarry, Goldsworthy makes an abstract drawing on slate and shows how a 'rain shadow' can be made on stone during wet weather.

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Learn to Draw Goldilocks and The Three Bears - Part 1 - The Bears

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Learn to Draw Goldilocks and The Three Bears - Part 1 - The Bears

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Learn to Draw Goldilocks and The Three Bears- Part 4 - Goldilocks Smells Porridge

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Learn to Draw Goldilocks and The Three Bears- Part 4 - Goldilocks Smells Porridge

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HOW TO DRAW MICKEY MOUSE EASY STEP BY STEP

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HOW TO DRAW MICKEY MOUSE EASY STEP BY STEP

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Learn how to draw portraits - How to draw a face step-by-step - Easy tutorial for kids

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Experimenting with Colour and inspired by Andy Warhol

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Experimenting with Colour and inspired by Andy Warhol

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Thought this could be a super idea to introduce sculpture to the children. You could get the children to shine a lamp or torch onto their sculpture and trace the shadow or get the children to think about what the shadow might look like and have a go at drawing it. Link this to the story Peter pan and the references made about his shadow.

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Apr 21, 2015 - After drawing gestures sketches of our classmates, we picked our favorite to turn into a sculpture.  The artist Alberto Giacometti influenc...

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This gorgeous Autumn Leaf Painting project is an exploration of basic colour-mixing principles, with the aim to recreate the Autumn hues and shades as observed by Arty Crafty Kids.

Throughout the process, encourage your Arty Crafty Kids to mix their own colours and describe what happens when the colours mix.

Questions to expand the Autumn Art Project:

How much Red and Yellow do you need to make Orange?

How do you make different tones of Orange (Yellow, Red, Green)?

How do you make Brown?

Can you make the same colour twice?

Kids will naturally adopt a process of trial and error to create their desired colours, and this simple process has many positive learning outcomes:

Mathematical Thinking :

Arty Crafty Kids will be mentally measuring and testing paint ratios to create new colours

Problem Solving :

The process of working out 'HOW' to create a new colour and replicate the shades of the leaves they've collected is problem-solving in action.

Language :

Simply talking about their processes and finding appropriate words to describe their new colours helps develop vocabulary.

And all of these outcomes combined stimulate and enhance children's imaginations and creativity!

Autumn Leaf Painting: Materials

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Stock Card / Mixed Media Paper
Paint - Primary Colours
Sponge
A Gorgeous Collection of Leaves

Autumn Leaf Painting: Tutorial

Collect Some Leaves

Head outside and gather as many leaves as possible.

Variety is key here, so have a good rummage and find different shapes, sizes and colours!

Once your Arty Crafty Kids have a bag or two filled with leaves, start painting!

Prepare the Paint

Using three separate plates, place one of the primary colours on each (Red, Yellow & Blue). This will allow plenty of room for colour-mixing and painting!

For reference, take a look at our basic colour-mixing chart:

And begin mixing colours.

Sponge Painting

Sponge painting round the leaves may take a little practice, especially for smaller hands, but there's no rush and the process is all about playing and exploring.

Moving on from the play to create a complete piece of leaf art is very easy to do.

Creating Leaf Art

Position a number of leaves of different sizes and shapes on top of the canvas.

One by one, begin sponge painting round each leaf, adding different colours and tones as you work around the leaf.

Once complete, gently peel the leaf away to reveal the silhouette.

Repeat the above process until the canvas is full of leafy silhouettes.

Working with Negative Space

Once complete, begin filling in the remaining negative space with more Autumn colours, layering the paint to create additional depth and texture.

Next, add a leaf print within some of the silhouettes.

This is a really fun way to play with negative and positive space. In art terms, negative space is the surrounding area of a point of interest. In this instance, our leaves.

The notion of positive and negative space is naturally explored in this project and one your Arty Crafty Kids will consider without knowing the official terminology or theory - they'll be too busy doing!

The Autumn Leaf Painting is now Complete

I hope your Arty Crafty Kids enjoy the process of this Autumn Leaf Painting concept

For more Autumn inspired Art's and Crafts, take a look at our Autumn Handprint Tree, Accordion Leaf Autumn Tree and Bubble Wrap Autumn Tree.

Happy Crafting!

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This gorgeous Autumn Leaf Painting project is an exploration of basic colour-mixing principles, with the aim to recreate the Autumn hues and shades as observed by Arty Crafty Kids. Throughout the process, encourage your Arty Crafty Kids to mix their own colours and describe what happens when the colours mix.

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Μια ευχάριστη και εύκολη δραστηριότητα για όλα τα παιδιά! | infokids.gr | Herfst knutselen kinderen, Elementaire kunst, Herfst knutselen

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14-mei-2019 - Οι πρώτες σταγόνες της βροχής έφτασαν, κι εμείς ψάχνουμε για ομπρέλες. Ελάτε να φτιάξουμε μερικές και να στολίσουμε το παιδικό δωμάτιο! Θα χρειαστείτε: ένα χαρτόνι για να κολλήσετε επάνω τις ομπρέλες, μπορεί να είναι είτε λευκό, είτε χρωματιστό ένα λεπτότερο λευκό χαρτόνι για να φτιάξε…

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Painting Fireworks | Toddler crafts, Crafts, Crafts for kids

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Painting Fireworks | Toddler crafts, Crafts, Crafts for kids

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Nov 2, 2017 - Creating Fireworks with Paint. Easy New Year's Eve and other celebrations activity The print pattern created by the cardboard roll fans mimics that of fireworks

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych | Art and Design - Your Paintings

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Lesson structure to be used with Mickey mouse

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Twinkl - KS1 Lessons and Explainer Videos

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KS1 Art: Andy Warhol Art Lesson for Kids

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Music to inspire your seascape art

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Ocean Waves Crashing on Rocks | White Noise To Help You Relax, Study or Sleep | Nature Video 10 Hrs

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Click on the student video for inspiration on creating waves using line, colour and texture for lesson 2

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Inspired by water and the artwork of Zaria Forman, children continue to explore lines but in a more expressive way. They will be using music to draw lines and marks that reflect their response to what they hear, creating a large collaborative piece.

To explore line and mark-making to draw water

Pupils should be taught:

To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space, to use drawing to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design

I can use different materials and lines to make different types of marks, reflecting what I can hear in music.

I know that there are many different ways of drawing lines, and that they feel different to make, and that they look different

I can add plants and creatures to bring art to life

I can evaluate my art and the work of others using the language I have learnt

Music

listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded
Science

Animal, including humans: Identify and name, describe and compare the structure of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammal

Note

This lesson is inspired by the artist Zaria Forman

Watch

Teacher video: Making waves

Pupil video: Making waves

Teacher video: Making waves

Pupil video: Making waves

Have ready

Pupil video: Making waves

Music on the theme of water e.g. Claude Debussy's 'La Mer'

Link: Zaria Forman - Maldives?'

A roll of white paper or lining paper

Masking tape to secure the paper to a row of tables

A range of materials: HB pencils and softer pencils (2B or 3B), coloured pencils, chalks, pastels, oil pastels

Aprons or painting shirts

Show pupils a range of the work of Zaria Forman
Zaria Forman - Maldives?'
Ask the children to describe how the artist has used different materials to represent water.
Key questions

What sort of lines are they?

Does it look like water?

Is water an easy thing to draw or paint?

How does light When a colour or tone is not dark. Colour may have white added to it to make it lighter.... change the way water looks?

Now the children are going to work into the lines they've drawn, using a variety of different techniques. Take the class through the mark-making you expect of them and show them how to work into the lines by:

Using the different materials available and in different ways

Demonstrating what dark When a colour or tone is not light. Colour may have black added to it to make it darker.... /light, thick/thin, wavy/straight and broken lines look like.

Considering which colours to use.

Before playing the music again, ask children to look at and reflect on what they have done so far and make sure their lines connect to those drawn by the people on either side of them.

Play the music while the children work, then stop it again to give another instruction and repeat, until a variety of materials and techniques have been used.

Use the Pupil Video: Making Waves for further demonstration, and/or have on whilst pupils are working independently, for them to refer to as they work (the video is looped so will play continuously).

When the water looks complete, ask the children what might live in the sea/river/water? Pupils' suggestions of creatures/plants/shells etc can now be drawn in the blank spaces (these could be drawn on separate pieces of paper and added at a later session if you're short of time).

You can adapt this activity by, like musical chairs, requesting that children change places and pick up where one of their peers left off.

Pupil video: Making waves

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KS1 Y1: Art: Hockey and Celmins - Making Waves - Kapow Primary

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Sesame Street: OK Go - Three Primary Colors

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Pupil video for mixing greens that can be shared in the lesson.
Use the presentation "green fingers" to introduce colour matching.

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By mixing different hues of blue and yellow, children fill an outline of their hand with varying shades of green, decorating their piece with dots, zigzags, stripes, wavy lines and shapes

Pupils should be taught to:

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To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

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KS1 Y1: Painting: Colour Mixing and Craft - Kapow Primary

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By mixing different hues of blue and yellow, children fill an outline of their hand with varying shades of green, decorating their piece with dots, zigzags, stripes, wavy lines and shapes Pupils should be taught to: To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist.

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How to make a colour wheel and colour theory for kids

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How to make a colour wheel and colour theory for kids

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Show this video before making colour wheels

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THE COLOR WHEEL * Basic Color Theory for Kids

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Easy Paper Spinners - STEAM Color Theory (Paper Crafts)

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Easy Paper Spinners - STEAM Color Theory (Paper Crafts)

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I Want To Be a Comic Book Artist - Kids Dream Jobs - Can You Imagine That?

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Video to inspire children with their comic strips. Discuss setting, characters and plot

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I Want To Be a Comic Book Artist - Kids Dream Jobs - Can You Imagine That?

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Kids Make Comics#1: Simple Shapes make Super Characters!

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This video is to show children how they can draw characters for their comic book characters using simple shapes. 

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This video is to show children how they can draw characters for their comic book characters using simple shapes. 

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Kids Make Comics#1: Simple Shapes make Super Characters!

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Fridge door comics shows how to create a four step comic including title box, conflict box, advancing the plot box and cliff hanger box. 

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Fridge door comics shows how to create a four step comic including title box, conflict box, advancing the plot box and cliff hanger box. 

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Lesson 3 Colour mixing interactive quiz for whole class starter

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Lesson 3 Colour mixing interactive quiz for whole class starter

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Contrast in art for kids: With Mrs. Walters

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Art Education - Principles of Design - Contrast - Getting Back to the Basics - Art Lesson

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LEARN TO DRAW EXPRESSIONS | ART LESSONS FOR KIDS! (HAPPY FACE, SAD FACE, ANGRY FACE, SHOCKED FACE)

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LEARN TO DRAW EXPRESSIONS | ART LESSONS FOR KIDS! (HAPPY FACE, SAD FACE, ANGRY FACE, SHOCKED FACE)

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Little People, Big Dreams: Georgia O'Keeffe

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Little People, Big Dreams: Georgia O'Keeffe

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Use different shades of coloured paper to collage onto your wash