Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping, and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today all about the seasons.

Painting and colour mixing.

We're going to do lots of thinking, exploring, and talking together in this lesson.

So shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to mix and apply hues of orange using a range of painting techniques.

Before we start, I would like to introduce you to some key words.

We'll be using these key words during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these down.

The keywords we'll be using today are hue, painting tool, glaze.

I'm gonna say those again and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Hue.

Painting tool.

Glaze.

Good job.

Now let's take a look at what each of these keywords mean.

Hue describes colours in the same colour family.

Painting tool is a tool used to apply or change paint.

A glaze is a thin layer of paint added to a dry layer of paint.

Pause the video here to make a note of these key words, and when you are ready to continue, press play.

These are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together in today's lesson.

Mixing autumn oranges and using a range of painting techniques.

In the first learning cycle we're going to explore mixing autumn oranges.

What colours do you see in the autumnal picture here? Pause the video and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you are ready to continue.

What could you see? Could you see different types of oranges? Maybe some browns? Well, how do you think orange might be made? Pause the video here.

Give yourself a moment to think.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

What do you think? Shall we take a look? Orange is a secondary colour.

Red add yellow equals orange.

So by mixing that red and yellow you make orange.

Artists can make lots of different oranges.

Here's some examples of oranges here.

These are called hues of orange.

They're all in the orange colour family.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which images show hues of orange? A, B, or C.

Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you are ready to continue.

If you said that A and B are both hues of orange, you are absolutely right.

These colours are hues of orange as they are in the orange colour family.

When an artist adds more yellow to orange, they might get these hues of orange.

Hmm.

What do you notice about these? So the artist has added more yellow to these oranges By adding yellow to the orange, we can see that these hues are brighter and lighter.

When an artist adds more red, they might get these hues of orange.

What do you think of those? By adding red to the orange, we can see that these hues are darker and stronger.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which hue of orange has the most red added? A, B or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and then press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Which one has the most red added? If you said, C, you are absolutely right.

This orange has had the most red added it.

Different hues of orange can be useful to an artist when showing autumnal colours.

Like that first image we saw.

Can you see we've got this lighter orange, a lighter hue here.

Then a slightly darker hue, an even darker again, can you see all of these different hues of orange to make these autumnal colours? Artists can also mix colours by layering one colour over another.

Can you see here how we have layered those colours on top of another to create a different orange? This is called a glaze.

This artist is painting a glaze over dry yellow paint to make it a more orange hue.

The artist adds water to their paint to make it thinner.

And by using glazes, an artist can create a more vibrant deep colour.

You see how they start with the yellow, then they add that thinner paint on top to make an orange hue.

That glaze creates that orange hue.

So if were to make a glaze over dry yellow paint, I need to first paint a bit of yellow, let it dry, and then add that orange paint on top that glaze.

But remember, the glaze is a slightly watered down version of the paint.

So I'd like you to have a go at that please.

Pause the video here and make a glaze over dry yellow paint.

Make sure you give yourself enough time to do that.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully your paints look a bit like this with the glazes on top.

Glazes are made by adding a thin layer of paint over your dry layer of paint.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to first of all mix the primary colours of red and yellow to make orange.

So mix those together to make orange.

So pause the video here and give yourself time to do that, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, hopefully you are able to mix your red and yellow primary colours to make your orange.

Now, I would like you to mix hues of orange by adding more red and more yellow.

So adding more red or more yellow, and you should hopefully have different hues of orange.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to do this part and press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, you might have these different oranges here, all these different hues, maybe some yellow oranges, some mid oranges, and some red oranges.

By adding that more yellow or more red to make different hues of orange.

Now there's a second part to this task.

I'd like you to add layers of paint over one another to create glazes.

So remember, first of all, you need to let your first layer of paint dry before adding the glaze, okay? So have a go at doing that first.

Then make your second layer of paint thinner by adding water.

So pause the video here and give yourself some time to have a go at adding layers of paint over one another to create glazes.

And press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, you might have something like this where it shows that you've used a red orange glaze over the paint.

Or maybe a mid orange glaze over that yellow paint.

Or finally that yellow orange glaze.

Well done for having a go at adding those glazes to your layers of paint.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're going to explore using a range of painting techniques.

What is the name of this art tool? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? That's right it's a paintbrush.

Some artists apply paint using a paintbrush, but artists might also choose to use different tools to apply paint.

Pine cones and conkers can be rolled through paint.

Sticks can scratch into paint, and leaves can be pressed into paint.

About any object can be used as a painting tool.

Using different painting tools can help an artist to show a range of textures with their paint.

If you see the different types of texture here, wonder what objects were used.

Texture means the way something feels when we touch it.

What might these objects feel like? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think they'd feel like? Maybe rough, sharp, or prickly.

We can use words to describe the texture.

A pine cone feels hard and smooth on the outside, like a pebble.

Its cap is rough and bumpy.

A leaf can feel soft and smooth, but sometimes it's crinkly and bumpy if it's dry.

Fresh leaves might feel cool and slightly waxy, while autumn leaves can be crispy and brittle.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Artists only use paintbrushes to apply paint.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you are ready to continue.

If you said that's false, you are absolutely right.

So why is that statement false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you are ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said, artists can use a paintbrush to apply paint, but they can also use other tools such as leaves, sticks, and pine cones.

You are absolutely right.

Well done.

This artist is rolling an object through wet paint.

How has this changed the texture of the paint? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner.

How has this object changed the texture of the paint? And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, maybe it's a rough, bumpy texture now that we've rolled this object through the paint, Let's use a pine cone as a painting tool.

So like this artist rolling the pine cone through that wet paint.

I'd like you to have a go at that.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to roll a pine cone through wet paint.

And take a look at what the texture looks like afterwards.

Press play when you are ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, maybe your paint looks a bit like this now, and the pine cone has left small dots and lines in the paint, so the texture looks a bit bumpy.

What texture is this paint here? Pause the video and have a moment to think.

And then press play when you're ready to continue.

Well, the texture could be described as uneven, bumpy, rough.

Did you think any of those, maybe you had some other ideas.

Some artists might use objects such as leaves and sticks to change the texture of their paint.

Artists can press leaves into wet paint to create new textures like this one here.

So can you see where the leaf has been? Artists can also scratch marks into the paint with sticks to create new textures.

So let's have a go at using leaves and sticks as painting tools to change the texture of the paint.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at using those leaves and sticks as painting tools to change that texture of the paint.

And press play when you are ready too continue.

How did that go? Well, maybe your paint looks a bit like this now.

You might have made marks and textures with your painting tools.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to use a variety of painting tools with paint.

You might think about using pine cones or conkers to roll through the paint, maybe sticks to scratch the paint or leaves to press into wet paint.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at that.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, maybe you have a page in your sketchbook or on paper full of different textures of your paint.

Maybe you've scratched your paint with sticks.

Roll a conker through your wet paint.

You've leaves into wet paint.

Or rolled a pine cone through your paint to create all these different painting techniques.

Well done for having a go at that.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learnt about mixing secondary colours, autumn oranges.

We know that orange is a secondary colour made from two primary colours.

We're able to mix hues of oranges using primary colours.

We can colour mix using glazes.

And we can control paint with a variety of conventional and unconventional painting tools.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.