Duration: 1.5 hours
Capacity: Maximum 30 pupils
Location: Museum galleries

About this session

Explore the outdoors through landscape and seascape paintings. Your pupils will learn about the principles of composition and the use of perspective. Working with our museum educator, they will develop new vocabulary to understand and discuss landscape as a genre of painting. Inspired by artists such as Rubens, Canaletto and Salvator Rosa, your pupils will also create their own drawings.

This session can also be delivered in British Sign Language by a Deaf museum educator.

What will your pupils learn?

• To produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
• To become more confident in talking about art.
• To analyse museum objects using the language of art, craft and design.

Curriculum links:

• KS1/2: Art and Design

"Children really enjoyed the sessions and were happy drawing the different pictures using the different mediums provided."

Year 3 Teacher