Art Materials and Techniques
Explore drawing, painting and simple sculpture to share ideas and experiences; try out colour, pattern, texture, line and shape with different materials (pencils, paint, clay, collage) and talk about the effects
What a learner can do afterwards
- Make pictures and models using a range of materials (e.g. thick and thin pencil lines, mixing paint colours, rolling and pinching clay)
- Use words like colour, pattern, texture, line and shape when talking about their own artwork (e.g. 'I used wavy lines for the sea')
- Choose a material or technique to match an idea (e.g. picking bumpy collage paper for a dragon's skin)
The lesson
Artists try many materials to make art. Pencils, paint, clay, and collage paper each feel different.
Zara draws a dragon. She picks bumpy paper for its scaly skin.
Talk about your art with words like colour, texture, and shape. Say why you picked each material.
Try different materials, then use art words to describe what you made.
Watch it
Where it sits
Learn first
Nothing; this is a starting point.
This opens up
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.