Visual Arts Planning: The Seaside

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A colour study of a shell.

Drawing and Painting

Water Soluble Felt-Tips With Complementary Colours

Exploring landscape painting

Use water soluble felt tips and watercolour to explore complementary colours.

Drawing Fish with Pen, Pencil and Watercolour

Exploring landscape painting

Provide children with an opportunity to explore drawing materials and practise their drawing skills.

Drawing and Collaging Fish and Seeing Composition

Exploring landscape painting

Introduce new materials and textures, and give children as much freedom to develop their drawings across media.

Working on black paper

Capturing the movement of the sea with paint

A range of painting projects using black paper as a starting point, beginning with still life plates of fish.

backwards forwards drawing

painting shells

This post describes how to facilitate the backwards, forwards drawing exercise using a fish as the subject matter.

Printing with plasticine

Creating mark making tools and painting water

Teachers use plasticine to print textures.

Making Painted and Sewn landscapes

Capturing the movement of the sea with paint

This post shares a way to explore working with both paint and thread to create painted and sewn responses to landscape.

Museum collections

Drawing shells from a museum collection

Teenagers explore drawing shells on loan from Cambridge University Museum of Zoology with Sheila Ceccarelli.

drawing spiral snails

Drawing spirals and shapes from nature

Join artist Tracy McGuinness-Kelly in exploring recurring spiral shapes in nature.

Painting a Still Life and seeing colour

painting shells

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

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

Capturing the movement of the sea with paint

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

Supporting making sculpture with drawing

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

Communal drawing

What is better on a hot summer’s evening than to draw a picnic? (And then eat it!).

mark making and water

Creating mark making tools and painting water

Teachers make a group drawing of water at an InSET session with Sheila Ceccarelli.

working with and in the landscape

Exploring landscape painting

Artist Frances Hatch shares her processes for creating site specific art, inspired by materials found in the environment.

Making

Coat hanger shells

Creating plaster reliefs

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

Making boats from scrap material

Julia demonstrates the process of creating dropped ice cream cone sculptures inspired by work by sculptor Claes Oldenburg.

making felt boats

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

Making shells from cardboard

Using shells to inspire building with stuff and exploring how materials might work together to create form, structure and texture.

Making wave bowls

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

Making boats from scrap material

What makes a boat float? A rich, and rewarding activity with plenty of time to play with, and explore materials.

Under the ocean mirrors

Making boats from scrap material

Challenge pupils to create an exuberant and exotic frame for a mirror with the theme of ‘under the ocean’.

building drawings with modroc

using modroc to build paintings

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

Using Sgraffito

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

making food sculptures from modroc

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

Creating plaster reliefs

This resources describes how to create plaster reliefs using clay and foamboard moulds.

exploring materials: clay and water

Tactical investigation of clay

Encouraging tactile investigation of clay, with no end result intended or prescribed.

a modroc festival feast

making food sculptures from modroc

Everyone has a favourite food, and there’s no better inspiration to make a communal sculpture than sweets, cakes, party food and ice cream!

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