Landscapes using different media – The Seaside

The Year One children became ‘artists’ and started a new unit of work called Landscapes using different Media – The Seaside. The children thought about the question – Can we identify the key features of a landscape? The children were asked to look at the seaside images from different artists. Miss Jones explained they were all landscape paintings- pictures of natural scenery. The children were told they were going to create their own seaside composition (deciding where to place things on the page). The children were given a set of images and asked to carefully cut out the images. The children were given an A3 piece of paper and they drew a horizontal line for the horizon (the line land and sea meet the sky). The children were asked to add lines to represent the waves. The children used their images to create their own seaside scene. They positioned the images in different ways and discussed where different objects should go – on the sand, in the sea or in the sky. Great seaside compositions Kingfishers.