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Art in the Environment

Audience: KS1 & KS2 Art
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park

Description of Activity
  • Plant colour collection - water-colour painting matching colours
  • Oil pastel drawing of plant or animal forms
  • Pencil / pen line drawings of plants
  • Serial vision sketching
  • Graphic designs from framed natural materials
  • Charcoal drawing of wood
  • Woodland painting using soil paints
  • Hessian scrim weaving with textured natural objects
  • Ink prints of leaf shapes
  • Wax resist fungi forms
  • Mobiles from found natural materials
  • Andy Goldsworthy study of ephemeral art
  • Choice of artist study of landscape or natural forms
Learning Outcomes

Children will:

  • Improve their observational skills and learn how observational recording can be developed into imaginative work
  • Gain confidence in using a range of materials and techniques
  • Develop work which emphasises the qualities of colour, line, form, texture and pattern
  • Work confidently in 3D with natural materials
  • Gain an appreciation of the work of artists depicting the natural world