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Exploring how unexpected watercolour effects can be developed through intentional artistic choices to create expressive artwork.
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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

This activity revisits learning from the whole unit of Art and design, Year 6, Painting and mixed media: World in watercolour to help the children recall key knowledge.

Show the Presentation: Technique selector. Pair the children and ask them to choose one technique and mime how they would use a brush, water and paint to create the effect.

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Susan Coles Art and design specialist

Susan is an educator, artist and an active advocate and well-known champion of art craft and design education. Her roles include: Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Art, Craft, Design Education, Past President, and now Honorary Fellow of the National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD), World Councillor (representing Europe) for the International Society of Education through Art (InSEA), and an Associate of the Big Draw. When Susan isn’t sharing her passion for the arts, she loves photography, making her own art, absorbing culture and travel.

Susan designed our free lesson on Clacton Pigeon Mural by Banksy as well as many others in our Art & Design subject.

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Maintained by: Kapow Primary teamLast update: 13 October 2026

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