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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
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
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
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
