Art

3B - Investigating pattern

Explore how shape and colour can be organised and combined to create patterns for different purposes; collect visual information; experiment with stencilling and print-making techniques to make a printed pattern; comment on similarities and differences between their own and others' work; adapt and improve their own work, according to its purpose

Rangoli patterns created in Textease PaintTeaching Activities

Using a paint package, pupils explore symmetry, copying and resizing and multiple pasting images, and flood filling shapes with different colours.

Lesson Plan (edu.dudley.gov.uk)

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Texture 1 Texture 2 Texture 3 Texture 48
Texture 10 Texture 11 Texture 12 Texture 13
Texture 47 Texture 20 Texture 21 Texture 16
Texture 25 Texture 29 Texture 30 Texture 31
Texture 37 Texture 38 Texture 35 Texture 34

Websites

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Information Sheets
Northumberland Grid

Examples of patterns found in nature

Islamic Art

Lesson Plan on Islamic Art

Starbeck.com
Images to support this unit
Symmetry in the Environment
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