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Colour and Texture Exploration

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Colour and Texture Exploration

Oscar, Keira and Theo are making a night-sky artwork. Explore colour mixing and texture, then plan your own starry creation. You can write, sketch or use art materials for your ideas.

Colour Detectives

Think about the colours artists can mix with paint.

1.Which set names the three primary colours used in this paint-mixing activity?

Red, yellow and blue
Green, orange and purple
Red, green and orange

2.Keira mixes red paint with yellow paint to colour the moon. What colour will she make?

3.Oscar wants to mix a green shade for a distant hill. Which two primary colours should he mix?

Red and blue
Blue and yellow
Yellow and red

4.Theo adds a little white paint to blue. Is the new blue likely to look lighter or darker?

Texture Explorers

Texture is how a surface feels, or how an artist makes it look as if it would feel.

5.Which material would make a rough, scratchy-looking planet surface?

Cotton wool
Sandpaper
Smooth foil

6.Complete the texture clues: cotton wool feels and soft; crinkled foil feels and shiny.

7.Match each material to the texture it could help create in a collage.

Cotton wool
Crinkled foil
Sandpaper

Bumpy, shiny moon
Rough planet
Fluffy cloud

Plan a Starry Artwork

Combine a colour idea with a texture idea to make your artwork interesting.

8.Choose two colours you could mix for your own night-sky artwork. Name the colour you expect to make.

9.Sketch a small part of a starry artwork. Include at least two colours and show two different textures using marks, patterns or labels.

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