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Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 1: Tints and shades

Analysing different painting techniques, comparing paintings by artists according to elements such as texture or colour and practising creating tints and shades when colour mixing.

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Learning objective

To understand how to darken or lighten a colour when mixing paint.

Success criteria

I can add white paint to one colour

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National curriculum

Art and design

Pupils should be

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Cross-curricular links

None.

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit you might want to check children can recall: How to use shapes to build initial sketches. How to mix colours with natural pigments to make natural colours. How to select equipment or paint to recreate specific features.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

May need reminding about painting basics: keeping a clean water pot, adding black and white paint a small amount at a time, holding the paintbrush near the bristles for greater control; could use slide 1 of the Presentation: Odd painting out to help them in discussing the paintings.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could investigate the range of colours they can make even with very similar starting colours; should mix two quite similar original colours, e.g. two different greens, and then mix tints and shades of both to observe the differences in colour.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: being able to share

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Vocabulary definitions

abstract

Art where the subject doesn't necessarily look like it does in real life.
detailed

Looking at features of something which can often be seen most clearly close up.

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