Still Life Stories: Experimenting with Mixed Media
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🃏 Swipe to learn the key vocabulary for this lesson before you start making!
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🧩 Put these steps for making a mixed media still life into the correct order. Drag them into place! 🖼️
- Add final details and outlines with pencil or pen, then annotate your sketchbook with what worked well.
- Paint over and around the collage using tints and shades to show light and shadow on the objects.
- Tear or cut coloured paper and glue it to create background shapes and flat colour areas (collage layer).
- Choose your best sketch and lightly draw the outlines onto your final paper.
- Arrange your objects and make quick composition sketches in your sketchbook.
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| Element | What Morandi did | What you could try |
|---|---|---|
| Colour palette | Very limited — 3 to 4 muted, dusty tones | Choose 2 or 3 colours and mix only tints and shades of them |
| Composition | Objects clustered tightly together, slightly off-centre | Overlap at least two objects; avoid placing everything in a straight line |
| Tone | Soft gradients from light to shadow on each object | Mix white into your colour for the light side; add a little black for the shadow side |
| Texture | Smooth, chalky paint surfaces | Use torn collage edges under paint for contrast between rough and smooth |
🗂️ Sort each description into the correct art vocabulary category. 🧩
Objects overlapping so they look like a group
Leaving negative space around the objects
Adding white to a colour to make it lighter
Using shades to show the shadow side of a bottle
Gluing torn paper then painting on top
Using both pencil lines and watercolour in the same piece
When you your , act like an art — who and . with what you (I can see...), then say what (The ...) and what you ( I would...). Using like , and you the , not just the . done for like a ! 🌟
Quiz time! 📝
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