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Industrial Surface Skills Lab

Teesside Art Studio Suite · Trinity Arts Award Explore

Progress SoW · Arts Aut 1 · 2026–27 · BUILD · Week 3🎨 Explore Parts A+C · Take Part + Create

Enquiry: How can materials recreate, exaggerate or transform industrial surfaces?

Success looks like

I can try an industrial surface technique safely
I can describe the texture or effect I made
I can say which effect I'd use again and why

Aspire · GROW reach: layer two techniques and explain the order you chose.

Teacher Print Tools — Week 3

Retrieval Quiz

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. Makers (Last week)

What do good artists steal?

Methods, never images.

2. Marks (Recall)

Show a stipple in the air.

Dot-dot-dot — done.

3. Surfaces (Recall)

Name one rough Teesside surface.

Rust, brick, concrete, corrugated steel.

4. Safety (Think)

Why do we count tools back in before anyone leaves?

A blade that never came back is a hazard — counting in is how we know nothing is loose.

1. Retrieval (Last week)

Name two of the four analysis moves.

Content, form, process, mood.

2. Technique (Recall)

What is a 'wash' in art?

Watered-down paint/ink laid flat or graded.

3. Layering (Think)

Why do artists build surfaces in layers?

Depth — each layer shows through; one-pass surfaces look flat.

4. Local (Recall)

Which surface did the class vote for this Lab?

Own answer — last week's Lundy vote.

1. Retrieval (Last week)

Anchor the word 'mood' properly.

Mood is caused by form/process — name the cause.

2. Control (Think)

Same tool, opposite effects — give an example.

E.g. pencil: hard edge vs smudged tone; brush: dry-drag vs wet wash.

3. Sequence (Think)

Rust over grey or grey over rust — does order matter? Why?

Yes — later layers sit on top; underpainting glows through.

4. Judgement (Recall)

What makes a test strip 'successful'?

It answers a question — even by failing informatively.

Starter

Starter: The Surface Gym

Key Question: Today is training, not performance. Six stations, six industrial surfaces, and full permission to ruin paper finding out what works.

🧪

Test Strips

Small, fast, disposable

Low stakes

🖌️

Six Techniques

Wash, dry-brush, stipple, frottage, scratch, layer

The menu

🏭

One Goal

Recreate, exaggerate or transform a surface

The enquiry

🏆

Best Strip

One winner gets mounted + labelled

Part C evidence

Pairs: predict which technique will nail RUST before we start. Bets are noted on the board.

I Do

I Do: Three Techniques, Live

Key Idea: Watch the tool decisions, not just the results: pressure, speed, water, order.

👀 Look: industrial surfaces — rust, rivets, texture — become techniques in your hands.

Step 0 of 4

Dry-brush for corrugation

Almost no paint, dragged across — the brush skips and the ridges appear. Speed matters: slow drags smear.

Frottage for brick

Paper over real texture, soft pencil sideways. The wall draws itself — then I work INTO the rubbing.

Layered wash for river

Wet grey wash, dry fully, second darker wash stopping short — the stripe of first-layer that shows through IS the light on the water.

The label

Every strip gets technique + tool + one word verdict: 'works', 'flat', 'again with less water'.

We Do

We Do: Tap the Technique

How it works: Tap each technique card to reveal what it does best — and its classic failure mode. Found: 0/6

💧 Wash

🖌️ Dry-brush

⚫ Stipple

🧱 Frottage

🗡️ Scratch-back

📚 Layering

I Do

I Do: Choosing to Recreate, Exaggerate or Transform

Key Idea: The same rust patch, three intentions: copy it faithfully, push it louder, or turn it into something new. Intention decides technique.

Step 0 of 3

Recreate

Faithful rust: stipple, true colours, patient. The test of control.

Exaggerate

Rust turned UP: oranges hotter, textures rougher, the patch grown huge. The test of nerve.

Transform

Rust as a map, a face, a coastline: the surface becomes a starting point. The test of imagination — and Week 4's brief will ask which you choose.

We Do

We Do: Match the Surface → Its Technique

Step 1: Tap a card, then its partner. Step 2: Watch the WAGOLL write itself. Score: 0/6

🟠 Rust patch

🏪 Corrugated shutter

🧱 Brick wall

🌊 River at dusk

⚡ Cables against sky

🌉 Weathered steel

Scratch-back through dark

Dry-brush dragged with the ridges

Stipple + layered warm colours

Frottage, then work into it

Two washes, first layer left showing

Layering: primer, grey, rust, grime

⚫ Stipple📚 Layering🧪 Useful failure🔊 Intention

Independent Work

Independent Work — Studio Time

Instructions: Work at your level. Evidence photos go in your Arts Award portfolio — your test strips with technique labels + a photo of your best strip (Parts A/C: taking part and creating).

Supported

Task: Complete 3 labelled test strips from the station cards (technique + tool + verdict word).

Steps: Pick 3 stations · strip each · label as you go · circle your best.

Standard

Task: 5 labelled strips including one deliberate second attempt after a failure, plus the recreate/exaggerate/transform choice named.

Steps: Five stations · one 'again with…' retry · intention chosen + one line why.

Stretch

Task: 6 strips + one combined-surface strip (two techniques layered), with a technical note on the order and drying decision.

Steps: All stations · the combination planned before painted · order + drying note · intention justified against Week 4.

Lundy Loop

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in the Studio

Why: Article 12 — your view on this work counts, and it changes what the studio does next.

🚪 SPACE

Stations are self-directed — route yourself round the gym in any order; queues self-manage.

📣 VOICE

Call your 'useful failure' to the room — failures announced proudly get photographed for the wall.

👥 AUDIENCE

Best strips are mounted in the corridor case this week — passers-by see technique, not just finished art.

⭐ INFLUENCE

Your bets + results decide which materials and demonstrations stay available for Week 4's brief.

Exit Ticket

Instructions: Answer independently. No sketchbooks.

1.

Which technique for rust?

Stipple.

2.

What are the three parts of a strip label?

Technique + tool + verdict word.

3.

What makes a failure 'useful'?

It teaches the retry — 'again with less water'.

1.

Why must washes dry between layers?

Wet-on-wet bleeds; the first layer must survive to show through.

2.

Recreate, exaggerate, transform — one line each.

Copy faithfully / push louder / turn into something new.

3.

Which intention did you choose and why?

Own answer, one reason.

1.

Explain a failure mode you actually hit and the fix.

Own answer — mode + retry.

2.

Why does layer ORDER matter on weathered steel?

Later layers sit on top — the real surface built the same way.

3.

Defend your combined strip's technique order.

Own answer — sequencing reasoned.

Knowledge Organiser (BUILD W3): Industrial Surface Skills Lab

Teesside Art Studio Suite · Trinity Arts Award Explore · Explore Parts A+C · Take Part + Create

Key Word	Definition
Wash	Diluted paint laid flat or graded
Dry-brush	Starved brush dragged to skip
Stipple	Built from patient dots
Frottage	Rubbing taken from a real texture
Scratch-back	Lifting light lines out of dark
Useful failure	A fail that teaches the retry

Key Facts

Test strips are training, not performance — small and disposable on purpose.
Real weathered steel is layered: primer, paint, rust, grime — paint it in that order.
Recreate/exaggerate/transform: intention decides technique.
Parts A+C evidence: labelled strips + your best, photographed.

Industrial Surface Skills Lab

Name: ____________________ Class: __________ Date:

This week's enquiry

How can materials recreate, exaggerate or transform industrial surfaces?

Arts Award evidence

your test strips with technique labels + a photo of your best strip (Parts A/C: taking part and creating).

Arrival Task

1) What do good artists steal?

2) Show a stipple in the air.

3) Name one rough Teesside surface.

4) Why do we count tools back in before anyone leaves?

1) Name two of the four analysis moves.

2) What is a 'wash' in art?

3) Why do artists build surfaces in layers?

4) Which surface did the class vote for this Lab?

1) Anchor the word 'mood' properly.

2) Same tool, opposite effects — give an example.

3) Rust over grey or grey over rust — does order matter? Why?

4) What makes a test strip 'successful'?

Starter: The Surface Gym

Key Question: Today is training, not performance. Six stations, six industrial surfaces, and full permission to ruin paper finding out what works.

We Do 1: We Do: Tap the Technique

💧 Wash, 🖌️ Dry-brush, ⚫ Stipple, 🧱 Frottage, 🗡️ Scratch-back, 📚 Layering

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Surface → Its Technique

Draw lines to match:

🟠 Rust patch · 🏪 Corrugated shutter · 🧱 Brick wall · 🌊 River at dusk · ⚡ Cables against sky · 🌉 Weathered steel

Scratch-back through dark · Dry-brush dragged with the ridges · Stipple + layered warm colours · Frottage, then work into it · Two washes, first layer left showing · Layering: primer, grey, rust, grime

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

wash, dry-brush, stipple, frottage, layer, label, works, again

Label Frame

"Technique: ___ Tool: ___ Verdict: ___"

Scaffolding – Standard

Retry Structure

Fail: what happened. Cause: water/paint/speed/order. Retry: 'again with ___'. Verdict: the second strip's one-word result.

Scaffolding – Stretch

Combination frames

"I layered ___ over ___ because ___" | "Drying decision: ___ before ___" | "For my Week 4 intention (___), this surface will ___"

Independent Work – Supported

Strip Record (3)

Strip 1 — technique/tool/verdict:

Strip 2:

Strip 3:

Best strip circled □

Independent Work – Standard

Strip Record (5 + retry)

Strips logged (technique/tool/verdict ×5):

My useful failure + retry:

Intention chosen (R/E/T) + why:

Independent Work – Stretch

Strip Record (6 + combination)

All six logged □

Combined strip — techniques + order + drying decision:

Intention justified against my Week 4 brief:

Exit Ticket – Supported

1) Which technique for rust?

2) What are the three parts of a strip label?

3) What makes a failure 'useful'?

Exit Ticket – Standard

1) Why must washes dry between layers?

2) Recreate, exaggerate, transform — one line each.

3) Which intention did you choose and why?

Exit Ticket – Stretch

1) Explain a failure mode you actually hit and the fix.

2) Why does layer ORDER matter on weathered steel?

3) Defend your combined strip's technique order.

Lundy Loop — this lesson

Space → Voice → Audience → Influence. The adult’s first job is Space: regulate before you educate.

Space	Stations are self-directed — route yourself round the gym in any order; queues self-manage.
Voice	Call your 'useful failure' to the room — failures announced proudly get photographed for the wall.
Audience	Best strips are mounted in the corridor case this week — passers-by see technique, not just finished art.
Influence	Your bets + results decide which materials and demonstrations stay available for Week 4's brief.

Closing the loop: out loud, as a class, is enough here. Any inclusion counts — a nod, a word, a pointed finger. If a pupil wants theirs written down, an adult scribes it in their words. Pass is always allowed.

Industrial Surface Skills Lab — Feedback Sheet

Keep with your sketchbook / portfolio.

Pupil name:	Date:
WWW (What Went Well):
EBI (Even Better If):
Level worked at: Supported / Standard / Stretch	Arts Award evidence filed: Yes / Not yet
Authorship — what I chose or decided myself:
Support given — prepared / scribed / modelled / hand-over-hand:
Pupil response — my next step: Ring this yourself — an adult may write your words if you ask.
How I answered it — ring one:👉pointed🗣said it✋showed🖼picture🔁tried again🎬filmedNothing yet is a real answer — leave it blank. Pass is always allowed.Filmed or photographed: work, not faces, unless consent is filed.R — adult initials that they received it: ____________

Industrial Surface Skills Lab

Success looks like

Teacher Print Tools — Week 3

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. Makers (Last week)

2. Marks (Recall)

3. Surfaces (Recall)

4. Safety (Think)

1. Retrieval (Last week)

2. Technique (Recall)

3. Layering (Think)

4. Local (Recall)

1. Retrieval (Last week)

2. Control (Think)

3. Sequence (Think)

4. Judgement (Recall)

Starter: The Surface Gym

Test Strips

Six Techniques

One Goal

Best Strip

I Do: Three Techniques, Live

Dry-brush for corrugation

Frottage for brick

Layered wash for river

The label

We Do: Tap the Technique

I Do: Choosing to Recreate, Exaggerate or Transform

Recreate

Exaggerate

Transform

We Do: Match the Surface → Its Technique

Independent Work — Studio Time

Supported

Standard

Stretch

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in the Studio

🚪 SPACE

📣 VOICE

👥 AUDIENCE

⭐ INFLUENCE

Exit Ticket

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Industrial Surface Skills Lab — complete!

Pens down — quick partner check!

Knowledge Organiser (BUILD W3): Industrial Surface Skills Lab

Key Facts

Industrial Surface Skills Lab

This week's enquiry

Arts Award evidence

Arrival Task

Starter: The Surface Gym

We Do 1: We Do: Tap the Technique

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Surface → Its Technique

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

Label Frame

Scaffolding – Standard

Retry Structure

Scaffolding – Stretch

Combination frames

Independent Work – Supported

Independent Work – Standard

Independent Work – Stretch

Exit Ticket – Supported

Exit Ticket – Standard

Exit Ticket – Stretch

Lundy Loop — this lesson

Industrial Surface Skills Lab — Feedback Sheet