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Painting and mixed-media: Expressive portraits
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ARCHIVED Year 1: Painting and mixed media: Colour splash

Learning about primary and secondary colours, colour mixing techniques and applying these skills in painting and printing.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Name the primary colours.
  • Explore coloured materials to mix secondary colours.
  • Mix primary colours to make secondary colours.
  • Apply paint consistently to their printing materials to achieve a print.
  • Use a range of colours when printing.
  • Mix five different shades of a secondary colour.
  • Decorate their hands using a variety of patterns.
  • Mix secondary colours with confidence to paint a plate.
  • Describe their finished plates.

Lessons

Lesson 1: Making colours

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Lesson 2: Painting with colour

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Lesson 3: Printing with paint

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Lesson 4: Exploring colour mixing

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Lesson 5: Clarice Cliff plates

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Key skills

Generating ideas:

  • Explore
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Key knowledge

Making skills (formal elements):

  • Colour:
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Key vocabulary

blend

hue

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Equipment list

Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.

This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)

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  • Paint ×8
  • Playdough or plasticine in primary colours ×30
  • Tissue or cellophane in primary colours ×30
  • Lego bricks or similar for printing ×30
  • Paper plates ×30
  • A selection of Straws

The equipment below is optional
  • Chalks or Marker pens ×15
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Knowledge organiser: Art & design – Y1 Painting and mixed-media

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit "Painting and mixed media: Colour splash".

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Vocabulary display: Colour splash

A display version of the key vocabulary from the Colour splash unit.

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