Skill: pattern

Lesson 5: Fabric design

Learning how fabric is printed by craftspeople and on an industrial scale. Evaluating batik and surface pattern techniques and considering how fabric is used differently.

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Year 6 Art and design skills

In this collection of lessons children learn and develop their skills in: design, drawing, craft, painting and art appreciation; working as a group to design a hat, creating zentangle patterns and subsequent prints, painting in the style of impressionist painters and exploring the piece ‘Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper

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Introduction to sketchbooks

This video introduces the sketchbook - a must for all artists to record their ideas, inspiration and a place to practise and refine their skills

Lesson 1: Painting: Impressionism

Children are given one sixth of ‘The Japanese Footbridge’ by Claude Monet as a vertical strip, to accurately draw what they see on their fraction of the painting and then practise mixing and applying paint to match the original.

Lesson 2: Drawing: Zentangle patterns - Option 1

In the first of two lessons, children create small squares of 'zentangle' patterns; an abstract drawing created using repetitive patterns

Lesson 2: Drawing: Zentangle patterns - Option 2: Christmas themed

In the first of two lessons, children create Christmas-themed 'zentangle' patterns; applying their understanding of line and repeated pattern.

Learning Objective

To apply an understanding of line and repeated pattern.

Lesson 3: Craft: Zentangle printing

Using a zentangle pattern from the last lesson, pupils create a reverse system print process by transferring their design onto a polyprint tile using a pen to create a deep line and then printing onto fabric and repeating the print process to create a pattern

Lesson 4: Design: Making a hat - Option 1

Working in groups children design and make a prototype hat for a specific purpose, sharing ideas, making sketches and finally constructing their design

Learning Objective

To design and create a prototype for a specific purpose

Lesson 5: Learning about…the work of Edward Hopper

Aimed to empower children to discuss and explore works of art, children analyse, among others, Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks' answering questions on some of the fundamental elements of art, including; scene, technique, form and shape, colour and light.

Lesson 4: Design: Making a hat - Option 2: Easter themed

Working in groups children design and make a prototype hat for a specific, Easter themed purpose, sharing ideas, making sketches and finally constructing their design

Learning Objective

To design and create a prototype for a specific purpose

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zentangle print example Little Paxton Primary School

Little Paxton Primary School (Zentangle print)
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Our Lady & St Anne's RC Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Zentangle print)

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Art and Design Year 4: Formal elements of art

Exploring two of the formal elements of art: texture and pattern; pupils develop a range of mark-making techniques, make and use their own textured stamps for printing; draw a ‘flip’ pattern and recreate a famous and ancient geometric pattern.

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Lesson 1: Texture: Charcoal mark making (Original scheme)

After experimenting with the different marks that charcoal can make, children are challenged to represent the meaning of a given list of words and phrases, in an abstract way.

Lesson 2: Texture and pattern: Printing

Children imprint texture and pattern into a piece of playdough using a selection of clay tools and everyday objects, then create prints from their blocks by applying ink to the surface and placing a piece of paper on top.

Lesson 3: Pattern 1: Stamp printing

Drawing around geometric shapes onto polystyrene foam and securing to a cork or lego brick, children make a stamp to create repeating patterns, varying configurations and their use of colour.

Lesson 4: Pattern 2: Reflection and symmetry

Children draw an image and then select a small section to trace into one square of a quadrant, they continue flipping and tracing into the next square of the quadrant until the 'flip pattern' is complete

Lesson 5: Pattern 3: Flower of life

Using a compass and following precise instructions, children make an image of overlapping and interconnected circles to recreate the sacred geometric symbol, 'the flower of life'.

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Lesson 4: Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Exploring the work of Hundertwasser to develop design ideas through sketchbook research.

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