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ARCHIVED Year 2: Painting and mixed media: Life in colour

Investigating collage techniques through the work of Romare Bearden, focusing on colour mixing and creating texture using different tools.

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Colour magic

Lesson 2: Texture hunt

Lesson 3: Making textures

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Lesson 4: Collage creation
  • To compose a collage, choosing and arranging materials for effect.

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Lesson 4: Collage creation – Christmas themed
  • To compose a collage, choosing and arranging materials for effect.

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Lesson 5: Developing detail

Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Key knowledge

Making skills (formal elements):

  • Colour:
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Key vocabulary

collage

detail

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Knowledge organiser: Art & design – Y2 Painting and mixed-media

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit "Painting and mixed media: Life in colour",

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Vocabulary display: Life in colour

A display version of the key vocabulary from the Life in colour unit.

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