Lesson 3: Exploring tonal shading
Developing tonal shading skills using control and pressure.
Learning objective
To develop tonal shading skills using control and pressure.
Success criteria
I can explain the meaning of the word ‘tone’ in art.
I can describe how artists use tone in their drawings.
I can vary the pressure to show tone.
Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Display the Presentation: Texture hunt and ask the children to discuss in pairs which words best describe the textures they can see.
Display the Presentation: Texture hunt and ask the children to discuss in pairs which words best describe the textures they can see.
Make presentation full-screen
Take feedback from the class and drag and drop the words to each object in the illustration. Check the answers using the button on the slide.
Use the links below to display artwork created by Käthe Kollwitz and Saeed Akhtar, a Pakistani artist known for his portrait paintings.
Ask the children to discuss in pairs:
Use the links below to display artwork created by Käthe Kollwitz and Saeed Akhtar, a Pakistani artist known for his portrait paintings.
Ask the children to discuss in pairs:
- How have the artists made some parts of their drawings darker or lighter? (Pressing harder with the drawing materials to make it darker and pressing lightly to make it lighter, using white chalk.)
Remind the children that in art, the word 'tone' is used to describe how light or dark something is.
Questions
- How have different tones been used?
- What mark making tools do you think have been used?
- Do you think these artists also use sketchbooks?
Play the Pupil video: Four rules of shading to introduce the four rules:
Use the side of the pencil.
Shade in one direction.
Press evenly.
Leave no gaps.
Display the Presentation: Tone and ask the children to tell their partner how they showed tone in their shading using as many of the words as they can.
For example:
I changed the pressure and ...
I made a darker tone by...
I varied my tones by...
Take feedback.
Example work
Montem Academy, Slough
Montem Academy, Slough
Montem Academy, Slough
Montem Academy, Slough
Montem Academy, Slough
Montem Academy, Slough
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