Warm and Cool Colours. Visual Arts Unit Overview Year One. Elements of Art: Colour

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1 Primary Colours Recognise red, yellow and blue as primary colours. Explore mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. Warm and Cool Colours Observe how colours can create different feelings and how certain colours can seem warm (red,orange, yellow) or cool (blue, green, grey) Using Warm and Cool Colours Explore how artists use warm and cool colours to create feeling. Learn colour names including light and Elements of Art: Colour dark Experiment with colour mixing Adding white to a colour Adding black to a colour Create a colour wheel Online activity from the Welsh National Grid for Learning: Colour Mixing Pieter Bruegel, The Hunters in the Snow, 1565 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967 (Tate Modern, London) Create a painting or collage of a park or city scene in winter. Create a display of cool colours perhaps as raindrops falling from the sky. Henri Rousseau, Surprised! A Tiger in a Tropical Storm,1891 (National Gallery, London) Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers,1888 (National Gallery, London) Create a contrasting painting or collage of a park or city scene in summer. Carefully select the warm colours to use. Create a contrasting display with warm colours.

2 Exploring Lines Identify and use different lines: straight, zigzag, curved, wavy, thick, thin. How do artists use lines? Lines can be used in lots of different ways. Experimenting with lines Lines can be used to represent lots of different things. Elements of Art: Line Teach the names of different lines Explore thick and thin lines Play with creating different pictures using lines This programme from the BBC teaches children about different lines and how to use them to draw characters: Get Squiggling Rembrandt van Rijn, Saskia in a Straw Hat, 1633 (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) Joan Miró, Painting (Peinture), 1925 (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh) Create own interpretations of Miró s painting using lines and shapes Look at other examples of Miró s work Pierre Bonnard, The Breakfast (Le Déjeuner), 1923 (National Gallery of Ireland, Create a string drawing with a piece or several pieces of string on black card. Dublin) Explore the pieces of art referring to lines.

3 Famous Buildings Buildings are designed by architects who design their buildings on paper first using line drawings. What is sculpture? Sculpture is not flat like a painting but has three dimensions or is 3d. Exploring sculpture Sculptures can come in many different shapes and sizes and can be made using many different materials. The Palace of Westminster, focus on the parts by Types of Art: Architecture and Sculpture Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, constructed (Westminster, London) Westminster Abbey, present building begun under King Henry III in 1245 (Westminster, London) Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, (Tate, Liverpool) The Banqueting House (part of the former White- Barbara Hepworth, Infant, 1929 (Tate, hall Palace), by Inigo Jones, 1622, with ceiling paintings by Rubens added in 1636 (Whitehall, London) Explore lines and shapes in pictures of buildings and visit a local building that shows interesting design. Hubert Le Sueur, King Charles the First, 1633 (Trafalgar Square, London) Hamo Thornycroft, Oliver Cromwell, 1899 (Palace of Westminster, London) E. H. Baily, Lord Horatio Nelson, St Ives) Antony Gormley, Angel of the North, 1998 (Gateshead) Create a clay sculpture of a hedgehog using cocktail sticks, cloves for eyes and string for whiskers. (Trafalgar Square, London) Visit a local sculpture

4 Style Style: the way a work of art looks (in literature, the way something has been written or sounds) Narrative Narrative: the word we use for a story in a work of art Character Character: a word to refer to the main or important figures in a work of art or literature; but also a term to describe a type of figure or person, such as hero Contrast several pieces of art with very different styles. For example: Language of Art Pointillism (dots) Impressionism (bright colours, soft lines) Surrealism (e.g Dali s clocks dream like) Children can just be shown lots of different art and can learn that style means how something looks. They could use programs such as 2paint a picture to create pieces in the style of one of the above. Talk about and write stories for pieces of art such as: Paolo Uccello, Saint George and the Dragon, 1470 (National Gallery, London) Jacopo Tintoretto, Saint George and the Dragon, 1555 (National Gallery, London) Look at characters in a range of paintings and discuss who they might be, how we know that and what else we can find out about them from the painting. St George (paintings mentioned previously) Paint a character from a favourite story in a scene from the story. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg can be used to create exciting narra- Discuss how we can show a character is brave, scared, sad etc. by painting tives from single pictures. things in the scene to give a clue.

5 Children in Art To observe children depicted in art and be able to explain what is shown, who the children might be, what they are doing, how they might be feeling etc. Children Playing in Art Understand that we can learn about how children used to play by looking at art. Painting our friends To be able to create a piece of art showing how we play with our friends. Paintings of Children Look at a range of pieces of art depicting children. Take some photos of the class partici- Discuss how what we see can give us clues pating in various play activities. about the children. Enlarge the photo on a colour photo- William Hogarth, The Graham Children, 1742 (National Gallery, London) Draw or paint some children in a scene, perhaps from a photograph of the class or a photograph of siblings. Pieter Bruegel, Children s Games, 1560 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, (Tate Britain, London) copier if possible. Ask children to choose a photo and use it to help them create a painting or drawing of play. Discuss what name or title could be given to the art the children produce.

6 Art that tells a story Artists can tell a story, or a part of a story through art. Heroes in Art We can learn about characters by looking at paintings of them. George and the Dragon George and the Dragon is one famous story that artists have painted. Paintings that tell stories Children can explore different paintings and find out which story it is telling. Paolo Uccello, Saint George and the They can look at elements such as where is the story happening, what time of day Dragon, 1470 (National Gallery, London) is it, is it an exciting thing or a sad thing that is happening? What happened before the picture? Discuss what hero means and how we might tell a character is a hero. Jacopo Tintoretto, Saint George and the Dragon, 1555 (National Gallery, London) What happened afterwards? What might the characters be saying? Create a drawing or painting of a hero from a favourite story. Look for clues about the character how do we know he is a hero? Jacobus de Voragine in The Golden Legend showing George battling the Dragon Children could paint their own versions of George and the Dragon.