Colour mixing for the garden

Art and design

In this unit, pupils will explore art, artefacts, and architecture from around the world. Through hands-on activities, they will experiment with different making techniques and materials to create artworks. Pupils will gain a wider context of how art shapes and reflects our global history over time.

Create a flower garden: introducing the 7 elements of art

Colours can only be mixed with wet paint.

What other materials do you need to be able to paint with powder paint?

Artists might have to try several times to match a colour.

Use petroleum jelly and your finger to create an image of a flower.

Choose two primary colours to mix for your flower.

Sprinkle on the powder paint to mix the colours.

Shake off the excess powder paint to reveal your artwork.

Put the steps in the correct order to create a flower artwork with dry paint.

Which of these colours can you mix to make orange paint?

Which of these materials do you think might feel soft?

drawing a shape and then making parts of it lighter

drawing many lightly coloured pictures of the same thing

Starter Quiz