Visual Arts Planning: The Seaside

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With so much to be inspired by, the seaside makes a great theme for learners. Explore water, rocks, shells and sea life through a range of exciting warm-ups and projects that cross printmaking, painting, sculpture and drawing.

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Explore our collection of Seaside resources

backwards forwards drawing

Facilitate the backwards, forwards drawing exercise

Drawing Fish with Pen, Pencil and Watercolour

Create mixed-media observational drawings

Drawing and Collaging Fish and Seeing Composition

Develop drawings across media

Water Soluble Felt-Tips With Complementary Colours

Use shells as a source material to explore line and colour

Working on black paper

Capturing the movement of the sea with paint

A range of painting projects using black paper

Drawing on Pebbles

Draw on flint, slate, brick and wood, transforming them into 'fossils'

Printing with plasticine

Creating mark making tools and painting water

Teachers use plasticine to print textures

Drawing Water

Create drawings inspired by studies of water by artists

Communal drawing! summer picnic

Create a collaborative drawing of a picnic

Drawing shells from collections

Create experimental drawings of shells

Painting a Still Life and seeing colour

A step-by-step for painting a shell

Making Painted and Sewn landscapes

Explore paint and thread to create a landscape

detached and timeless painting

Explore capturing movement and sense of place

drawing as a support activity

Supporting making sculpture with drawing

Enable an exploration of drawing to support other disciplines.

working with and in the landscape

Be inspired by materials found in the environment

Observation and Imagination: Shells

Capture shells through observational and imaginative drawing

drawing spiral snails

Explore recurring spiral shapes in nature

Museum collections

Create experimental drawings of shells

Drawing shells big!

Explore tonal shading in drawings with large-scale shells

mark making and water

Make a group drawing of water

Coat hanger shells

Create an experimental sculpture

Dropped cone sculptures

Create dropped ice cream cone sculptures

making felt boats

Make colourful textile sailing boats

Making shells

Use shells to inspire building with materials

Making wave bowls

Create a bowl inspired by the seaside

making boats that float

What makes a boat float? An exploration of materials

Under the ocean mirrors

Create an exuberant and exotic frame for a mirror

a modroc festival feast

Make a communal sculptural feast

water and rock

Explore the physicality of rocks with graphite and plaster

Introducing scraffito

Create tiles using sgraffito

making plaster reliefs

Create plaster reliefs using clay and foam board

Sea Sculptures from a plastic bottle

Create a collection of sea sculptures form recycling

exploring materials: clay and water

Encouraging tactile investigation of clay

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