How to Gradate Sketchbook Page

This task teaches your students how to gradate coloured pencils and watercolour using warm and cool colours.  Your students will:

• Practice gradating coloured pencils and watercolour.
• Recap on colour theory and learn about warm and cool colours.
• Include subject-specific vocabulary in their learning.

This download includes:

• A detailed 2-page lesson plan full of good advice and tips.
• An 8-slide PowerPoint pictured above. The text is editable.
• A ‘good example’ PDF which you can print and put on tables as students work.  There are two version of this PDF, one with the spelling ‘colour’ and the other ‘color’.
• A blank worksheet that helps your students structure their page.

Materials required:  Coloured pencils, watercolour, brushes, waterpots.

There are lots more colour theory art lessons on The Arty Teacher website.

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