Let’s Talk About – The Seaside

• Look at the three images of the seaside – if you can it is nice to print them out but equally you can look at them on a screen. You can download the images here: Seaside Images.
• Have a really good look at the images trying to pick out the different colours and details.
• As you are looking at the pictures you may want to focus on the way that they have been created by the artist.

Questions that you could ask:

• What is the style of each picture?
• What do you think was used to create each picture? For example paints, ink…etc….
• What colours can you see in each picture?
• How would you describe the styles? For example realistic, abstract, sculptural…etc…
• What words would you use to describe the different pictures?
• How do the different pictures make you feel?
• Which of the pictures do you like best?

Then:

• Use the picture that you have chosen as your favourite and start to talk about what you can see.

Questions that you could ask:

• What do you like about the picture that you have chosen?
• What is shown in the picture?
• What can you see?
• What sort of mood does it have?
• What is the weather like?
• Are there any people in the picture? If so who? And what are they doing?
• What else do you think you could do in the place that is shown?
• Does the location look formal or informal?
• What is the weather like?
• Is it the kind of place that you would like to spend time in?
• What do you think you could hear in that place?
• What do you think it would smell like?
• If you had to give th picture a name what would it be?
• Any other questions that you come up with…