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Activity: create your own Picture of Britain project
Activity C: Sketchbook Scenes
The painters exhibited in Picture of Britain made sketches and paintings of many different landscapes, both rural and urban. What's in your landscape?
Philip James de Loutherbourg
Lake Scene, Evening
1792
 View in Tate Collection
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
© Tate 2005
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- With your class, list as many different words as you can that describe the landscape in your surrounding area. You might come up with words like 'industrial', 'urban', 'grassy', 'hilly', 'flat', 'mountainous', 'coastal', 'lakeside', and others. List as many words as possible.
- Choose one of the list words to focus on. Arrange for your class to visit an area that is like this word. For example, if you chose the word 'grassy', then you could visit a nearby park. Have the class take sketchbooks, pencils, crayons, and other art materials. Ask them to sketch what they see in the landscape.
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- Back in class, take digital photographs of their sketches and send them to your partner class, and arrange for them to send you the same.
- Look at the sketches sent by your partner class: how are your areas different? How are they the same?
Tip: If you don't have time to arrange a visit to another part of town, get your class to sit somewhere on the school grounds where they can sketch the surrounding neighbourhood.
Curriculum areas: Geography, Art
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Activity B