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Drawing and Painting
Water Soluble Felt-Tips With Complementary Colours
Use water soluble felt tips and watercolour to explore complementary colours.
Drawing Fish with Pen, Pencil and Watercolour
Provide children with an opportunity to explore drawing materials and practise their drawing skills.
Drawing and Collaging Fish and Seeing Composition
Introduce new materials and textures, and give children as much freedom to develop their drawings across media.
Working on black paper
A range of painting projects using black paper as a starting point, beginning with still life plates of fish.
backwards forwards drawing
This post describes how to facilitate the backwards, forwards drawing exercise using a fish as the subject matter.
Printing with plasticine
Teachers use plasticine to print textures.
Making Painted and Sewn landscapes
This post shares a way to explore working with both paint and thread to create painted and sewn responses to landscape.
Museum collections
Teenagers explore drawing shells on loan from Cambridge University Museum of Zoology with Sheila Ceccarelli.
drawing spiral snails
Join artist Tracy McGuinness-Kelly in exploring recurring spiral shapes in nature.
Painting a Still Life and seeing colour
Artist Educator, Emma Copley demonstrates in this beautifully illustrated resource, a step-by-step method for producing a painting of a shell, or similar object, in gouache.
Drawing Water
Children are inspired by the studies of water by Leonardo da Vinci and some contemporary drawings by Rosie Leventon.
detached and timeless painting
Artist and educator Sara Dudman shares examples, inspiration and support for working creatively from video to capture movement, including that of the sea, and a sense of place in painting.
drawing as a support activity
Paula Briggs describes how she enables an exploration of drawing as an activity to support other artforms, in this case sculpture.
Communal drawing! summer picnic
What is better on a hot summer’s evening than to draw a picnic? (And then eat it!).
mark making and water
Teachers make a group drawing of water at an InSET session with Sheila Ceccarelli.
working with and in the landscape
Artist Frances Hatch shares her processes for creating site specific art, inspired by materials found in the environment.
Making
Coat hanger shells
Jan Miller uses the natural form of shells as a starting point, beginning with observational drawing and mark-making before moving onto sculptural making.
Dropped cone sculptures
Julia demonstrates the process of creating dropped ice cream cone sculptures inspired by work by sculptor Claes Oldenburg.
making felt boats
Artist Ruth Purdy share a process to combine felt pieces with bright embroidery floss, buttons and beads to make colourful sailing boats.
Making shells
Using shells to inspire building with stuff and exploring how materials might work together to create form, structure and texture.
Making wave bowls
Co-created vessels, part inspired by ceramics by Grayson Perry, and loosely based around a holiday theme as the summer holidays.
making boats that float
What makes a boat float? A rich, and rewarding activity with plenty of time to play with, and explore materials.
Under the ocean mirrors
Challenge pupils to create an exuberant and exotic frame for a mirror with the theme of ‘under the ocean’.
building drawings with modroc
In this one and a quarter hour long session, teenagers explore drawing rocks found on the beach and build drawings with modroc and graphite.
Introducing scraffito
Artist Eleanor Somerset demonstrates how to do Sgraffito: layers of coloured clay slip are applied to an unfired ceramic body and scratched into to create drawings on clay.
Sea Sculptures from a plastic bottle
Take inspiration from the sea, collect a selection of recyclable milk bottles and water bottles to made a collection of sea sculptures.
making plaster reliefs
This resources describes how to create plaster reliefs using clay and foamboard moulds.
exploring materials: clay and water
Encouraging tactile investigation of clay, with no end result intended or prescribed.
a modroc festival feast
