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Beyond the pencil: 3D, print and digital media

Flat paper is only one option. Sculpture, printmaking, collage and digital tools all let you develop an idea in a completely different way.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Practical skills: Work in three dimensions and with other media such as printmaking, collage and digital imaging

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Work in three dimensions and with other media such as printmaking, collage and digital imaging

Key learning points

  • • Working in three dimensions
  • • Printmaking
  • • Collage and digital imaging

This lesson at a glance

  • 25 minutes
  • 14 parts to scroll through
  • 3 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

dimensionsprintmakingcollagedigitalimaging

Scroll down — the lesson carries on below

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Beyond the pencil: 3D, print and digital media

An English teaching video on this topic from Jescia Hopper. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Work in three dimensions and with other media such as printmaking, collage and digital imaging

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Learning cycle

Part 2 of 14

Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Working in three dimensions

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 3 of 14

Learn

Working in three dimensions

Sculpture and relief work force you to think about form from every angle, not just one viewpoint. Simple materials such as clay, card or wire can be built, carved or assembled to explore mass, space and balance.

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Explore the idea

Part 4 of 14

Learn

Printmaking

Relief printing (like lino or polystyrene) cuts away what you don't want inked, so the raised surface takes the ink. Printmaking naturally produces repeatable, bold marks and encourages designing in reverse and in strong shapes.

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Quick check

Part 5 of 14

Quick check

What happens in relief printing?

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Reset break

Part 6 of 14

Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Quick check

Part 7 of 14

Quick check

What is a key benefit of working digitally?

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Learning cycle

Part 8 of 14

Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Collage and digital imaging

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 9 of 14

Learn

Collage and digital imaging

Collage combines found materials — paper, fabric, photographs — to build texture and meaning quickly. Digital imaging software lets you layer, distort and combine images non-destructively, so you can experiment freely before committing.

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Quick check

Part 10 of 14

Quick check

Collage is best described as building an image from...

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Challenge round

Part 11 of 14

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Challenge round

Part 12 of 14

Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

____ naturally produces repeatable, bold marks and encourages designing in reverse and in strong shapes.

____ combines found materials — paper, fabric, photographs — to build texture and meaning quickly.

____ imaging software lets you layer, distort and combine images non-destructively, so you can experiment freely before committing.

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Mastery quiz

Part 13 of 14

Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Beyond the pencil: 3D, print and digital media

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. What happens in relief printing?

  2. 2. What is a key benefit of working digitally?

  3. 3. Collage is best described as building an image from...

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

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Quiz score

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Points this lesson

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0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 3 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Article

Reading a portrait

Artists make choices before they make marks. A sitter placed high in the frame looks powerful; the same sitter low in the frame looks small. Light falling from one side sculpts a face into shadow and bone; flat light makes it open and plain.

Objects do work too. A book says learning, a dog says loyalty, a wilting flower says time passing. Viewers in the past read these signs as easily as we read a logo.

When you look at a portrait, ask three questions: where is the light coming from, what has the artist put in the sitter's hands, and where am I standing — above, below, or level with them?

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Reading questions

  1. Choose a portrait and answer the article's three questions about it.
  2. Explain how you would light a portrait to make someone look kind.
  3. Plan your own portrait, listing two objects you would include and what each one says.

  • Sketchbook page

    Diagram

    Make your own piece, then photograph it for your sketchbook page.

    1 finished piece

  • Annotation

    Writing

    Write around your work: what you tried, what worked, what you would change.

    6 sentences

Saved as you type.

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