Drawing

Understand drawing is a physical activity.
Understand there is a relationship between drawings on paper (2d) and making (3d). That we can transform 2d drawings into 3d objects.
Explore lines made by a drawing tool, made by moving fingers, wrist, elbow, shoulder and body. Work at a scale to accommodate exploration.
Use colour (pastels, chalks) intuitively to develop spiral drawings.
Pupils draw from paused film, observing detail using pencil, graphite, handwriting pen.
Pupils draw from first hand observation, observing detail using materials above plus pastel, oil pastel and or pencil crayon.

Sketchbooks

Introduce what a sketchbook is for. Understand it is owned by the pupil for experimentation and exploration.
Use sketchbooks to:
Test out printmaking ideas

Develop experience of primary and secondary colours

Practice observational drawing
Explore mark making

Printmaking

Understand prints are made by transferring an image from one surface to another.
Understand relief prints are made when we print from raised images.
Use hands and feet to make simple prints, using primary colours.
Collect textured objects and make rubbings, and press them into plasticine to create plates/prints (relief printing) exploring how we ink up the plates and transfer the image.
Explore concepts like “repeat” “pattern” “sequencing”.

Painting

Understand watercolour is a media which uses water and pigment.
Understand we can use a variety of brushes, holding them in a variety of ways to make watercolour marks.
Explore watercolour in an intuitive way to build understanding of the properties of the medium.
Paint without a fixed image of what you are painting in mind.
Respond to your painting, and try to “imagine” an image within.
Work back into your painting with paint, pen or coloured pencil to develop the imaginative imagery.

Collage

Understand collage is the art of using elements of paper to make images.
Understand we can create our own papers with which to collage.
Collage with painted papers exploring colour, shape and composition.
Combine collage with making by cutting and tearing drawn imagery, manipulating it into simple 3d forms to add to sculpture.

Making

Understand that sculpture is the name sometimes given for artwork which exists in three dimensions.

Use a combination of two or more materials to make sculpture.
Use construction methods to build.
Work in a playful, exploratory way, responding to a simple brief, using Design through Making philosophy.

Visual Literacy and Articulation

Look at the work of artists who draw, sculptors, and painters, listening to the artists’ intention behind the work and the context in which it was made.
Understand we may all have different responses in terms of our thoughts and the things we make. That we may share similarities. Understand all responses are valid.
Reflect upon the artists’ work, and share your response verbally (“I liked…”).

Present your own artwork (journey and any final outcome), reflect and share verbally (“I enjoyed… This went well”).
Some children may feel able to share their response about classmates work.