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1 week

Art and Design, Outdoor Learning

Nature Study

Be inspired by Nature and spend the week carrying out an in-depth artistic study into a natural object. There are five tasks to complete, explore a range of techniques before creating a final artwork.

Day 1: Find the natural object you want to study a Tree, a Flower, a Hedge or a rock? Now take a series of photographs inspired by nine key words or phrases: edges; texture, through, shape, a flash or swath of colour, a shadow / dappled light, up close, underneath, unusual viewpoints. Make a digital collage of your images.

Day 2: Textures: Take some paper and a pencil or wax crayons, and do some tree and leaf rubbings! If the object is very fine, like a flower, make a detailed drawing of the texture.

Day 3: Line: Create a single line drawing of something in naturet, don’t take the pencil off the paper!

Day 4: Details: Create a simple viewer – a square cut out of some cardboard – and use your viewer to find interesting sections of your plant or tree and draw them! Add detail, texture and negative space. Draw from a number of angles or take pictures to be drawn later.

Day 5: Drawing: Take your time and complete an in-depth artistic study of your tree or plant. How could you share this?

Artists for further research are listed at the bottom of the activity sheet prepared by Jane Stockley and Rosny Hayward.

What you need/ materials to find:

Camera / camera phone, pencils, pen, recycled cardboard