Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

How are you doing today? I hope you're feeling really, really good.

My name is Miss Afzal and I'm going to be your art teacher today.

I'm really excited about that for a number of reasons: one, I love teaching; two, I love art; and three, because I absolutely love flowers.

And our lesson today is called Colour Mixing for the Garden.

I don't actually have a garden myself, but I love gardens.

I love going to visit parks or other people's gardens, and I wonder if you like going to gardens as well and seeing all of the flowers.

Our lesson comes from a unit called Creating a Flower Garden: An introduction to the seven elements of art.

There's a lot involved in art, a lot of different elements, a lot of different things to learn about.

So I hope you're feeling excited.

I hope you've got focus, that you are ready to pay attention.

I hope you are feeling enthusiastic and maybe some curiosity as well, curious about what we'll do.

Shall we begin? The outcome for our lesson today is: "I can match colours I see in flowers using wet and dry paint." That sounds really interesting and exciting.

Let's find out more.

We have keywords that will be coming up in our lesson today.

So keywords are words that are really important to this lesson.

So let's really listen out carefully for these words and what they mean.

And we'll go through them.

My turn, your turn: match, powder paint, petroleum jelly.

Fantastic.

Let's find out what these words mean.

So match is when we are mixing paint so that it looks the same as the colours that we observe.

Powder paint is a dry, colourful powder that can be mixed with water to make paint.

And petroleum jelly, that's a funny word, is a thick, greasy substance.

These are our keywords.

Let's look out for them, let's listen out for them, let's think carefully about them.

They will be coming up in our lesson today.

Our lesson is called Colour Mixing for the Garden.

It's got two parts to it: Matching colours to flowers and Creating flowers with dry paint.

Let's begin with Matching colours to flowers.

Oh my goodness.

Take a look at this beautiful flower we can see on the screen.

Wow.

Let's pause for a moment and take a really good look at this flower.

What colours can you see in this flower? Pause the video and tell the person next to you, what colours can you see? Here's a clue.

There may be more than one colour.

All right, I wonder which colours you spotted.

Here is Izzy.

Izzy saw a bright, bold yellow.

Aha.

There it is.

Can you see on those tips of the petals, a bright, bold yellow? I like the way you described that yellow, Izzy.

Here's Alex.

"I see a golden, yellow orange." Okay, I see that.

Can you see as we're getting closer to the centre of the flower? Actually it's getting a little more goldeny and orangy.

Good spot.

Alex.

Here's Sam.

"In the centre, there is a deep red-orange." Oh yes, I see that.

I see that too, Sam.

Can you see that? Right in the centre there, there's a more of a deep red orange.

Really great observation, Sam, and well done everybody for all the different colours that you spotted in this flower.

Artists sometimes want to match colours in their artwork to the object they are looking at.

So we can see there is that golden, yellowy orange colour.

There's the bright, bold yellow that Izzy spotted.

And there we've got that more red, a reddy-orange colour in the centre, that Sam saw.

This means making colours as close to the ones seen in the object as possible.

That's called colour matching.

There are many artists who use bright colours in artworks inspired by flowers.

Let's find out who some of these artists and their artworks are.

Alexej von Jawlensky's "Floral Still Life" from 1915.

There's Yuki Aruga's "Echo" from 2021.

Florence Stoffkopft's "Studio Flowers 2" from 2022 is also inspired by flowers.

Alex Katz, "Yellow Flags 4" from 2020.

Jenny Frean's "Painted Flowers" from 2018.

Lilian Thomas Burwell's "Sanseveria" from 1980, and Georgia O'Keeffe's "Poppies" from 1926.

In fact, so much of Georgia O'Keeffe's artwork is inspired by flowers.

These are just some of many artists whose work been inspired by flowers.

Check for understanding.

True or false? Artists can match their paint to the colours they see in an object.

Pause the video while you decide if this is true or false.

Well done if you selected true.

And why? Can you say more about your answer? Pause the video.

Tell someone nearby.

Matching colours can help an artist to show the viewer what they are looking at.

Well done if you had an answer like this.

Here's Izzy.

Here's a very beautiful flower on our screen, and Izzy is looking at this flower.

Let's join her.

Let's all take a really good look at this flower.

Pause while you do this.

Izzy says, "I can see blue and purple within the flower." Hmm, yeah, can you see that little bit that we've zoomed in on there, that Izzy is looking at so carefully? It's kind of blue and purple.

Great spot, Izzy.

So Izzy has taken some blue paint and some red paint to create purple.

So Izzy makes her first purple by mixing a lot of blue with a little red.

Did you notice that, that there's more blue than red that she selected there? Izzy notices another colour.

Goodness, Izzy is really paying such close attention to this flower.

I love it.

This time, the purple has been made with more red.

Oh yeah, can you see that? So you can see there's a little bit more red in that purple.

So this time Izzy chooses some more red and a bit less blue to make her purple.

Her slightly more reddy purple.

Izzy makes her paint with more red and less blue.

Izzy also notices that the flower is lighter in some places.

Hmm.

Does anybody have an idea? How do you think Izzy is going to make her purple a little lighter? What could she do to make the purple lighter? Pause the video and tell someone nearby.

"I will add white to my paint to make a tint." Great idea, Izzy.

I wonder if that's what you came up with, that idea of adding white? So here we have the red and the blue, same amount of each this time, and a little bit of white will give her a tint of purple.

So Izzy mixes a tint of purple by adding white.

This artist is mixing colours to match this flower.

Let's pause here while we watch this artist mixing colours.

Did you notice which colours they're mixing together? Sometimes it's a yellow, sometimes it's an orange.

Sometimes they're adding white.

And it takes a few tries to make the colour that they are trying to match, but they get there in the end.

It's always worth having a few tries at something to get to where you want to get to.

So I'm going to have a go now.

I'm gonna mix colours to match the colours I can see in this flower.

And now it's your turn.

You mix colours to match the colours you can see in this flower.

Pause the video while you do this.

And maybe you came up with something like this and it probably took you a few tries to get to the colour that you were looking to match in the flower.

This artist has matched a range of colours they have observed in the flower.

Oh, take a look at this beautiful flower.

And here's Alex.

Alex has mixed some different greens using blue and yellow to match to this flower.

Alex notices that some of the colours he has made are not quite the same as the flower he's looking at.

Oh dear.

And can you see Alex's face? He is not.

How's he feeling about that? I think he is not quite so happy.

Hmm.

What could he do, I wonder? He can have another go.

So Alex has another go at matching the colours to his flower.

Sometimes it takes a few tries for an artist to make the colour that they want.

I think Alex has done a really great job.

I'd say that's a great match for that petal there at the edge of that flower.

Well done, Alex.

Well done that you kept trying.

Check for understanding.

True or false? Artists might have to try several times to match a colour.

Pause the video, and tell someone nearby.

Is this true or false? Well done.

It's true.

And now can you tell someone nearby why? Why is that the case? Pause the video here.

Maybe you came up with an answer like this.

It can take an artist several tries to make the correct colour.

By practising this, artists can improve over time.

It's always worth practising whatever it is that we want to do or we want to get good at, it's all about practise.

And now it's time for your first task.

I'd like you to select a flower and then practise matching the colours that you can see within your flower.

And then use the colours you've made to paint your flower.

This is gonna be a fun task and you're gonna need to concentrate to really look carefully to see what are the colours you're trying to achieve and which colours do you need to mix together so that you can get the colours that you are after.

I'll see you when you're finished.

Enjoy your task.

Pause here.

Okay, how did you get on? Here is Alex.

Alex says, "I mixed two primary colours together.

Yellow and blue.

I mixed more yellow into the green to achieve this colour." Okay.

Yeah, I like that.

It's a really good way of achieving the colour that you wanted.

"And then I mixed more blue for these colours and added some white." Fantastic to give you that really lovely tint.

Great job, Alex.

I wonder if you tried something like that too.

And I hope you enjoyed your colour mixing.

And now we're onto the next part of our lesson: Creating flowers with dry paint.

Artists can use wet paint to create an artwork of a flower.

Take a look at this beautiful, beautiful image.

Oh my goodness, I love that.

I can see so many different colours have been mixed here to create this.

They can also use dry paint or powder paint to create an artwork of a flower.

Look at this flower here.

I love that one too.

Check for understanding.

Which statement about paint is true? A: Colours can only be mixed with dry paint, B: Colours can be mixed with wet or dry paint, or C: Colours can only be mixed with wet paint? Pause the video and tell someone nearby, which of these statements about paint is true? Well done if you selected statement B.

Colours can be mixed with wet or dry paint.

Both dry and wet paint can be mixed to create new colours.

Hmm.

Look at these powder paints.

This artist has mixed two colours of powder paint.

What are the two colours that the artist has used and when they mix them together, which colour was created? Can you tell someone nearby? Pause the video here.

Well done if you noticed that they mix together yellow and blue to create green.

Dry powder paints can also be sprinkled together to mix new colours.

Pause the video and tell someone nearby, which two colours have been mixed together, sprinkled together, to make this new colour? Well done if you noticed that yellow and red have been sprinkled together to make orange.

Powder paint does not stick to paper by itself.

So this artist is using petroleum jelly.

Do you remember? That was one of our keywords.

To create an image on their paper, they're using their finger like a brush.

Petroleum jelly will help the powder paint to stick to the paper.

The artist has then sprinkled powder paint onto the petroleum jelly, mixing two primary colours together.

Finally, the artist can shake off the excess powder paint to reveal their flower painting.

Oh my goodness.

And it's a great painting.

I love that.

And what a fun process.

Check for understanding.

Which image shows powder paint after mixing? Is it A, B, or C? Pause the video and tell someone nearby.

Well done if you selected B.

We can see there's the yellow and the blue.

And when it's been mixed together, it makes green.

And now it's time for your next task where you are going to be creating flowers with dry paint.

First of all, I'd like you to use petroleum jelly and your finger to create an image of a flower on some loose paper.

You might like to include the petals, the stem, the leaves.

Next you'll choose two primary colours to mix for your flower.

You'll sprinkle on the powder paint to mix the colours together, and then you'll dust off the powder paint to reveal your flower.

The powder paint will stick to the image that you had created with your finger and the petroleum jelly.

I am really excited for you to have a go at this fun task.

Pause the video while you create your flowers with dry paint.

And you might have created something like this, using some different primary colours to create a secondary colour.

And we can see so many different colours that you may have used on this beautiful flower.

I hope you're feeling so proud of what you've created, using the petroleum jelly, first of all, to draw your flower, mixing together your colours of powder paint and then shaking off your paper to reveal your flower.

I bet that was a really fun, exciting moment when you discovered your flower.

Well done everybody.

In our lesson today, Colour mixing for the garden, we have covered the following: Artists can match colours that they observe in the world around them.

Wet and dry paint can be mixed to create a range of colours.

Powder paint and petroleum jelly can combine to create a colourful artwork that incorporates colour mixing.

Well done, everybody for joining in with this lesson.

There is so much that we've covered today.

I love how you got involved with looking out for the colours that you can see in the flowers and then matching them.

I love how you kept trying.

'cause sometimes you can't get the colour you're after straight away.

You have to just keep trying until you get the colour just right.

So well done for that.

And also for experimenting with dry paint and petroleum jelly.

Oh my.

It's been a really fun lesson.

I enjoyed teaching you and I hope you enjoyed learning and experimenting and exploring wet and dry paint colour mixing for the garden.

And maybe next time you are out in a garden, you could take a really close look at any flowers that you see and notice all the different colours that are in that flower.

We might look at a flower and think it's green, but actually it might be green, it might be blue, it might be greeny blue.

It might have all sorts of different tints within it.

So have a good look next time you're out and passing by any flowers.

I'll see you at another lesson soon.

Bye for now.