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 use a variety of painting techniques when painting a triptych.

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

We'll be using these key words during the lesson.

The first two words that we're going to be using today are painting techniques and triptych.

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

Painting techniques, triptych.

Good job, now let's find out what each of these key words mean.

Painting techniques are different ways of using and applying paint.

A triptych is a type of artwork that has three parts which work together.

Our other two key words are panel, evaluate.

I'm going to say those again and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

Panel, evaluate.

Good job, now let's find out what these keywords mean.

A panel is one part or section of a triptych.

Evaluate is when we think about our artwork to understand how good it is and how we could make it better.

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

To paint your triptych and to evaluate your triptych.

So in this first learning cycle, let's explore how to paint your triptych.

Jacob is looking back at his plan for his triptych.

I've used colours inspired by spring.

For each panel he says, so we've got that first panel with the tints.

Then the second panel, those yellowy greens, and the final panel is those shades of green.

Although each panel uses spring colours, each shows a different part of the season of spring.

So the first panel will show light tints like the first days of sunshine.

That first panel there is going to show that.

Then the middle panel, this will show bright, fresh colours of spring flowers, and then the third panel shows the darker and cooler colours of spring.

You see that third panel there.

So each of those panels has a different job, but then they all come together.

Every panel within the artwork is connected to the others.

In this triptych, each panel works together to tell a different story about spring.

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

In a triptych, each panel shares ideas with the others to create one single artwork.

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.

What did you think? If you said that's true, you're absolutely right.

Now, why is that true? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about why this statement is true and press play when you are ready to continue.

If you said artists might choose to use similar paint colours or similar painting techniques to link the triptych panels together, then you are absolutely right.

Well done.

Jacob is thinking about which painting techniques he might use.

He thinks about what painting techniques he has used before.

He says, I really like the blending technique I used with purple.

Can you see that blended technique there, how the two colours meet, that bluey purple and the red purple.

That smooth centre.

Jacob adds blending to his painting technique bank.

So there it goes, blending.

That's a painting technique that he has that he would like to use.

What other painting techniques could Jacob add to his bank? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about what other painting techniques you know about and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Well, Jacob adds this other painting technique to his bank, sticks, conker, pinecone, leaves and glazes.

Did you remember any of those painting techniques? How we created those different textures using any old object really.

Can you remember using a stick to scratch into the thick paint? Or you might have rolled a conker in the paint to create texture and leave marks on the surface.

Or can you remember pressing leaves into the paint and then removing them to create an almost sticky and bumpy surface? What painting techniques will you add to your bank? Which ones did you like using? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about which ones you might add to your bank and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? I quite like using the conker and the leaves.

I like the textures that they create.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding, which image shows a glaze painting technique, A, B, or C? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said, C, you're absolutely right.

Remember, glazes are made by placing layers of paint over one another.

Jacob thinks back to his first panel.

I'm going to use blending and glazes with the light spring tints.

So with that light spring colour palette, he is going to use the blending and the glazing techniques.

So Jacob mixes his palette of colours ready for painting, and he knows he can make the paint thinner by adding water for the glazes.

This artist is blending and glazing with tints of spring greens.

Can you see how they're doing it? They can make the paint lighter by painting light glazes over darker colours.

So I'm going to use blending and glazing with tints of spring greens.

For my first panel, I might need to have my palette ready of those spring greens and make sure that I'm adding the water to make it thinner to create the glaze and merging the two colours together for that blending.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at blending and glazing with the tints of your chosen colour palette for your first panel and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully your chosen colour palette looks like this with your blending and glazing and you've created a range of soft colours.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to decide which painting techniques you'll use for each panel.

So remember the techniques we've got, blending, we can use sticks to create texture or maybe a conker or a pine cone, some leaves, and then we have glazes as well.

So we've got a few different painting techniques here.

Think about which ones you like the most and which ones you would like to use for each panel.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at deciding which painting techniques to use and then press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, maybe like Jacob, I'm going to find things to roll through my wet paint, like conkers and marbles.

Maybe you're going to use blends on each panel so they have something in common.

Maybe you'll build up layers of paint with glazes and shades, or maybe you'll use leaves and your fingers to press into the wet paint.

Hopefully you've decided on what you would like to do on each of your panels.

Now, I would like you to paint each panel of your triptych using your chosen colour palettes and the painting techniques you've decided on.

So remembering what those painting techniques are and remembering what your colour palettes are, have those ready and then pause a video here.

Give yourself enough time to have a go at painting each panel of your triptych and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Hopefully you had lots of fun having a go at painting each panel of your triptych.

You might have something like this.

Maybe on this first panel you've used light tints with blending and glazing.

On the second one, maybe you've scratched into bright fresh colours to create some texture.

Maybe on that last one, you've pressed leaves and rolled conkers through the darker and cooler colours of spring.

Well done for having a go at painting your own triptych.

We're now ready to have a go at the second part of our lesson.

We're going to evaluate our triptychs.

So taking a look at this triptych, what do you like about it? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think.

Maybe have a discussion with your partner and then press play when you are ready to continue.

So what did you like about it? When they finish an artwork, artists might evaluate what they have done.

This means saying what went well and what might have gone better, and this helps artists to improve over time.

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

What do artists do when they evaluate their artwork? They say what went well and what could have gone better.

They just say, what went well? Or do they just say what could have gone better? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that when they evaluate, they say what went well and what could have gone better, you are absolutely right, well done.

Now Jacob is evaluating his artwork.

He starts by saying what he likes about it.

"I think my colour choices work really well.

My artwork looks really fresh." What did you say when you looked at this and thought about what you liked? Did you agree with Jacob? Do the colours look really fresh? Jacob then says what his artwork reminds him of and why it was successful.

"My artwork really looks like spring.

This is what I meant to do, so I think it is successful." But then Jacob thinks about what could have gone better.

He says, "I think I could have used a rolling technique in all of my panels to make them have more in common." What did you think, do you agree with Jacob? Well, Izzy looks at Jacob's work.

She says, "I really like the way you've used a different painting technique in each of your panels." "Really, I thought I should have used rolling in each panel to make them more connected." Says Jacob.

Sometimes people will disagree with your evaluation.

Artists do not always have to agree about what went well and what could have gone better.

What do you think Jacob could have done better? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and maybe have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? Do you think he could have used any other techniques? Should he have joined them together a bit more? Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Is this statement true or false? Artists always agree with one another when they evaluate their work.

What do you think? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think, is this statement true or false? And press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said this is false, you're right.

Well done, why is it false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

If you said artists do not always have to agree about what went well and what could have gone better.

Sometimes people will disagree with your evaluation, then you're absolutely right.

Well done.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to use the sentence stems below to help you evaluate your artwork.

I like my artwork as my work is successful because next time I might try, I could improve my artwork by.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at using the sentence stems to evaluate your artwork and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, Jacob says, "I like my artwork as I have used a really wide range of painting techniques.

My work is successful because each panel looks really different, but the colours are all from the same season.

Next time, I might try using more tints of green to make it more interesting and I could improve my artwork by using more shades of blue within my work." So well done if you were able to use those sentence stems to evaluate your artwork, thinking about what you liked, what was successful, what you might try next time, and maybe how you could improve.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about painting the seasons.

Each panel within a triptych can tell part of a story and should be connected.

Artists can choose from a wide range of painting techniques and artist can evaluate their artwork to help them improve over time.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson.

I hope you enjoyed learning about the seasons through painting and colour mixing.

I certainly did.

I hope to see you for another unit of learning.

See you then.