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Lesson Two – Pointillism
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and practise a technique used by Seurat to create a range of different colour shades in a painting. The class can try using and combining dots of colour to make a selection of shapes to use in future artwork.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and practise a technique used by Seurat to create a range of different colour shades in a painting
Learning Objectives
Compare techniques in mixing and combining colours in artwork. Explore how to combine colours to produce different shades.
Learning Outcomes
I can describe different ways to produce colour shades in artwork. I can select and combine colours to produce different shades.
Pointillism
Teaching sequence to help the children identify and practise a technique used by Seurat to create a range of different colour shades in a painting
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Activity to help the children produce a selection of different shapes using pointillism to combine colour to produce a range of shades
Pointillism
Interactive activity to help the children identify and practise a technique used by Seurat to create a range of different colour shades in a painting
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and practise a technique used by Seurat to create a range of different colour shades in a painting
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