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Painting & mixed media: Exploring texture with paint and collage

Creating textures with paint and exploring collage through the work of Romare Bearden.

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Teacher video: Exploring texture unit overview

Lessons

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Lesson 1: Romare Bearden

  • To explore how colour in art can be used to communicate ideas.

Lesson 2: Collecting textures

Lesson 3: Making textured paper

Lesson 4: Story-inspired collages

Lesson 5: Adding detail

Key skills

Key skills

Generating ideas:

  • Generating ideas from
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Key knowledge

Making skills:

  • Understand that changing
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Key vocabulary

collage

composition

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A display version of the key vocabulary from the painting & mixed media year 3 unit.

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