Lesson video

Hello everyone.

It's Mrs. Tong here again with lesson four out of five of our sculpture lessons.

I'm really pleased to see you again and today we're going to be adding surface decoration to our sculptures.

That means we're going to be adding colour and pattern to them, so they're going to look fantastic.

I'm really glad that you've joined me again.

Are you ready to get started today? Are you ready to be a sculptor again? In this lesson, we're going to review our sculpture work from the previous lesson.

We're going to make changes to our sculpture to make sure that we're happy with it.

That also will mean that we'll need to make sure it's really strong and well built.

And we're going to add colour and pattern to the surface of our sculpture today.

For the lesson, you will need paper, glue, pen or a pencil, colouring tools and paint and brushes.

Mostly you'll need the paint and brushes, but you'll need some colouring equipment for a design task.

I've got some star words again today.

Please say them after me.

Sculpture, three dimensional or 3D, assemblage.

Can you remember what type of sculpture that was or how it was joined together? In an assemblage sculpture, the pieces are all joined together and maybe in different ways.

Scale.

That meant the size of an artwork, didn't it? And abstract, abstract.

That means it's not recognisable shapes.

So it doesn't look like maybe a face or a tree or a car, but it's shapes and colours that are put together.

Surface.

Okay, I've got a recap question for you, first of all.

Can you remember what surface means? It's an important word for this lesson.

Does it mean the way that a sculpture can be built? Or does it mean the flat area of your shapes? That's right, if you said it was the flat area of your shapes, you'd be correct.

Surface means the flat area of each shape.

So almost like the front and the back of each shape is a surface.

Okay, your first task today, sculptors, is to make sure that your sculpture is really securely built.

Check all of the joins, make sure there are no gaps and I think the best thing to use is either tape or glued paper strips.

They're probably the strongest method to make sure that all your joins are secure.

Pause the video now to check the joins on your sculpture make sure they're all really nice and strong.

In our next lesson as well, we're going to be taking our sculpture around and finding a place to put it to exhibit it.

So it's going to need to be really strong today.

Okay, let's have a look again at some of the artwork that inspired us before.

In the previous lesson, we were looking very much at the shapes in these sculptures, weren't we? But this lesson, we're looking at the colours, too.

Let's have a look at the colours I can see.

Reds and oranges and browns and golds and shimmery colours and yellow, green, blue, all sorts of colours just in this collection of sculpture.

Colour is a really important element of them.

I wonder which one is your favourite? I really liked the ones on the beach.

They look a bit like totem poles and I've never seen sculptures on a beach before.

Okay, I've got a little challenge for you.

Have a look at the shapes on the left-hand side of the screen and the patterns on the right.

We're going to see if we can practise matching them up so that the pattern that you paint onto your surfaces of your sculpture today will be related to the shapes themselves.

So let's have a look at the first shape.

It's a curved shape, isn't it? It's got a little corner on it, but it's generally a curved shape.

Can you spot a pattern on the right which has curved shapes in it, too? That's right, it's the yellow one.

And I chose to make a yellow curved pattern because yellow is a happy colour and I enjoyed making the swirls of those curves.

The next shape is a little bit like a square or rectangle with a corner sticking out, isn't it? Can you see a pattern that matches that shape? That's right, I chose the orangy red pattern.

It reminded me a little bit of bricks, too.

So I think that those shapes all sort of fit together.

And then the final one is a jiggedy-jaggedy shape, isn't it? Can you see the jiggedy-jaggedy pattern on the screen? That's right, there's that blue zig-zaggy, jaggedy pattern.

Sculptors, your second task is to make a sketch of your sculpture.

Think about the colours and patterns that you will add to the surfaces that you use to decorate the surfaces.

Colour your sketch to plan where you're going to put your colours and patterns.

Remember to try and match the patterns to the shapes a little bit.

So if it's a wiggly shape, it might be a wiggly pattern.

You can also leave some of your surfaces on your shapes just with a plain colour, too.

So there's a lot of variety in our sculptures, just as there are in the examples that I've shown you in the previous slides.

I've got a little video now showing you what I did.

Okay, so I've got my sculpture in front of me and I'm going to make a sketch of it first of all.

Now, what I'm going to do is start with this big circle up here and I'm going to put that on the top of my paper.

Now, I know I can't see this part here, but I'm going to put that in anyway because my sketch at the moment is just thinking about the shapes and thinking about where they are and what, I'm trying to make decisions about what colour they're going to be.

So it doesn't have to be a perfect sketch.

This shape up here is a triangle kind of coming through there, but I just need to plan where all of my shapes are going to be.

It doesn't matter if your shapes are in the wrong place at the moment or not quite right.

They don't have to, it doesn't have to be a perfect sketch of your sculpture, you're just planning where you're going to put the colours and patterns at the moment.

So, I've coloured these round, curvy shapes with softer patterns and colours, bright colours.

So I'm going to colour these jagged shapes slightly differently, so I'm going to follow the kind of lines of the shapes and do some zig-zaggy patterns on this one.

And because all of these shapes cross over, I'm going to make my zig-zags cross over a bit too, like this.

And then I think I'm going to make this shape at the bottom blue, it just feels like a darker colour would be good at the bottom to kind of make the piece look solid just in that area.

So I'm starting to fill my sketch now with colours and patterns that I want to go with my shapes.

So I'm matching my colours and patterns to my shapes and making a plan for how I'm going to decorate my sculpture.

Pause the video now to complete your task.

Make a drawing of your sculpture and colour it with colour and pattern that is related to the shapes in your sculpture.

Well, how did you get on? How did you match the shapes to certain colours and patterns? I've got three of my shapes on the screen and my sketch.

Can you see how I've matched the shapes and the patterns? So the circle I've coloured yellow, it's a lovely sunny colour and it reminds me of a happy sun and I've also got some lovely yellow squiggly marks inside it.

The semicircle with the piece cut out at the bottom, I've made some curved stripes on that to make the curve look even curvier.

And then the rectangle I've made a grid pattern in that, because it's all straight lines and I think that matches the shape.

Okay, your next task is to add colour and pattern to your sculpture.

I think it's best to use paint here to cover up the surfaces and to decorate them really effectively.

Use the colours and patterns that you've planned in your sketch.

So I'm going to show you how I'm painting my sculpture.

I painted some of it, I've got some of the base colours on and now I'm ready to add some of the patterns on top of those colours.

So I'm just going to have a look at my sketch with it now and I'm going to work on this yellow circle at the top here.

So you can see on the sketch that it has lots of squiggly sort of marks on it.

So I'm going to use quite a small brush to do this to put these marks on.

So just get some yellow paint, nice bright yellow paint on my brush and I'll start to look at my sketch and add on the squiggly painted marks.

When I come to another surface, I might just change direction.

And I'm just going to go over some of those marks where I want them to stand out a little bit more.

So now I've got those squiggly marks on that bit.

I've got to wash my brush in between the colours and I'd like to add some orange to this part.

So in my drawing, you can see that I have these sort of orange lines here, I'm going to try and add those now.

So I'm going to mix up some orange paint and follow the lines just like in my sketch that I've coloured in to add some orange to that shape.

It's not very easy in some places to get the colour onto the shapes, you have to paint quite carefully, especially when they're next to another shape so that you don't get the wrong colour on this shape here, but and you have to let the base colour dry first.

That's my top tip, sculptors, is to let that base colour dry first so that you can get a nice, clear, bright colour showing through.

So my top tip here is to make sure that base colour is nice and dry first so that your colours shine through nice and brightly.

Now the only piece I have left now to finish off on this area are these lines on this piece.

And I think I might go over those with a little bit of red like that just to make those lines even brighter and to shine up, shine out.

Okay, so I'm quite happy with this area of my sculpture now.

And as you can see from my sketch, I'm going to put some, a grid of green on this main rectangle here.

So I'm now going to start to work on that.

Okay sculptors, it's time to add that colour and pattern.

Pause the video to complete your task, off you go.

Well done, sculptors.

Let's have a quick recap.

What went well when painting and adding colour to your sculpture? Was it difficult to paint some of the surfaces? Would you change anything about it? I wonder if you can spot any changes that I made? I've got my sketch on the left and a photograph of my finished sculpture on the right.

Can you spot two changes? Okay, the first one I'd like you to try and spot is a little tiny blue circle on the pink and yellow circles.

It joins them together.

I've actually painted the top of the paper fastener blue.

Can you see it? It's a tiny blue circle on the pink one.

So I changed that as I went along, I thought I'd add a little blob of colour to that tiny circle.

Also, if you look at the zig-zaggy shape at the bottom of my sculpture, the pattern on it is slightly different to my sketch, isn't it? In the sketch, I've got a light background with a dark blue pattern and in my sculpture, I decided it would look better if I did a dark blue colour for the background with a light colour on the top.

I actually used a marker pen for some of this, too.

So if you have any of those at home, you might want to see if they might work and look effective on your sculpture too.

Okay sculptors, your sketchbook or review task today is more of a review task because your sculpture definitely will not fit into your sketchbooks.

So your review task today is to present your sculpture work from the lesson, tell someone at home about it, how you chose the colours and the patterns for the different surfaces.

You might even want to tell them that you know what surface means.

I think they'll be impressed.

Present your sculpture as if you were presenting it in a gallery, maybe on a table or the kitchen worktop or somewhere where everyone can see it.

I think they'll be really impressed.

Your sculptures look amazing.

Well done everyone.

If you'd like to share your works with Oak National today, the details are on the screen now.

But always remember to ask an adult to help you to do this.

I had so much fun decorating our sculptures today, adding colours and patterns to all of those surfaces.

Well done, sculptors.

Our sculpture work is really coming along now and it's looking great.

In the next lesson, we'll be exhibiting it properly and presenting it to everyone at home.

We're going to be adding a title to it, just like in a posh gallery.

Please join me for that lesson.

I'll see you soon.

Take care.

Bye-bye.