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Why Choose This Course?
Discover Icelandic landscapes with watercolour — explore big to small, back to front, and light to dark, study Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, and create a meaningful landscape postcard to share with someone you care about.
Learning Goals
Art Techniques
Using watercolour washes, layers, and changing water and pigment to create depth — working from big shapes to small details, back to front, and light to dark.
Speaking & Listening
Explaining how background, middle ground, foreground, colour, and detail create depth, while sharing observations about Kjarval’s landscapes.
Creative Expression
Painting an Icelandic lava-field landscape inspired by Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, then transforming the artwork into a meaningful postcard or visual information piece.
Exploring the World
Discovering Iceland’s lava fields, moss, rivers, mountains, and changing natural light, and exploring how artists represent the character of a place.
Key Information
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)
All of our courses empower students to take action towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for a better world. This course specifically focuses on the goals shown below.
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Ages: Year 3 upwards
Course Duration: 1 Lesson
Time per Lesson: 60-90 mins
Key Curriculum Areas: Visual Arts, English, Technology, Science & Technology, PDHPE, Mathematics
Teacher/s: Gavin McCormack