Grade 8 Fauvist harbour scene with rival colour schemes on Procreate layers

Grade 8 (Year 9, age 13 to 14) · 60 min · 1 iPad per student plus stylus

The teacher shows André Derain's 'The Port of Collioure' (1905), and the class picks out how the Fauves used strong complementary colours in place of natural ones. Each student draws a harbour scene from a photograph on one layer, then paints two colour versions on separate layers above it: one close to the real colours and one built on complementary pairs such as orange against blue. They hide and show the layers to compare the two, adjust edges that clash, and choose the version they will develop. In the last ten minutes they add three annotations to the exported image explaining which complementary pairs they used and the mood they create.

Why this is Creative Amplify

Students paint an original image and make the colour decisions themselves, so the work is Creative. The task is the colour study the class would paint in acrylic anyway, but layers add something students use to decide: two full colour schemes over one drawing, compared by switching between them, where acrylic would mean painting the scene twice.

Compared with

Painting one Fauvist-style colour study in acrylic from the same photograph.

Watch out

If students paint a single version and never switch layers, nothing the app adds is part of the task and the lesson is Creative Replace.

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Grade 8 Fauvist harbour scene with rival colour schemes on Procreate layers.

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