Subject: Art and design

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Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Exploring line and shape

A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Art and design, Year 1, Drawing: Exploring line and shape.

 

This resource is designed to support children as they develop their drawing skills by exploring different types of lines and shapes. It introduces key vocabulary, artistic techniques and materials, such as chalk, pastels and charcoal, alongside influential artists like Bridget Riley and Paul Klee. Perfect for reinforcing essential knowledge, it helps children experiment with mark-making, understand how lines can create different effects and build confidence in their artistic expression.

Assessment - Art and design Y2: Drawing

Assess pupil progress in Y2 Art and design unit: Drawing. With assessment resources including a quiz and teacher visual art assessment tool.

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Quiz lesson presentation Art and Design Y2: Drawing

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Teacher visual art assessment tool: Drawing

Art and design assessment

Teacher visual art assessment tool

A visual art assessment tool to support assessment of the pupils’ practical skills and knowledge in drawing.

 

Our Art and design assessment spreadsheet to track pupil progress

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Assessment - Art and design Y3: Drawing

Assess pupil progress in Y3 Art and design unit: Drawing. With assessment resources including a quiz and teacher visual art assessment tool.

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Quiz lesson presentation Art and Design Y3: Drawing

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Drawing: Developing drawing skills

Developing shading skills and drawing techniques to create botanical-inspired digital drawings.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Use their observation skills to describe specific shapes, textures or patterns in objects.
  • Shade with a reasonable degree of accuracy and skill following the four shading rules.
  • Use mark marking to show texture and details.
  • Use simple shapes to sketch the basis of their drawing before using lines and marks to add detail and texture.
  • Apply shading skills to show areas of light and dark (tone).
  • Apply line, shape and tone with digital tools.
  • Save and present digital artwork.
  • Use materials to create a design inspired by The Sun.

Suggested prior learning

Drawing: Understanding tone and texture

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Lessons

Lesson 1: See like an artist

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Lesson 2: Shading

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Lesson 3: Take a closer look

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Lesson 4: Imagination in bloom

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Lesson 5: Paper to pixels

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Optional: Every picture tells a story

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Key skills

  • Generating ideas from a range of stimuli and carrying out simple research and evaluation as part of the making process.
  • Using sketchbooks for a wider range of purposes, for example recording things using drawing and annotations, planning and taking next steps in a making process.
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Key knowledge

  • Use and apply more complex lines and marks to represent texture, tone, pattern, etc, and describe their qualities, e.g. thick and thin.
  • Recognise more organic shapes within objects.
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Key vocabulary

blend

even tones

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Equipment list

Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.

This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)

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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected

  • A selection of drawing materials such as colouring pencils, watercolour pencils, markers, oil pastels, and fine-liner pens. ×30
  • Paper ×30
  • Pencils ×30
  • Selection of plants bulbs and seeds ×15
  • A selection of Wool
  • Modelling dough ×30
  • Digital device (internet-enabled) ×15

The equipment below is optional
  • Magnifying glass ×30
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Vocabulary display – Art and design Y3: Drawing: Developing drawing skills

A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Developing drawing skills'.

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Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Developing drawing skills

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Developing drawing skills’.

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Cross-curricular opportunities

Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes.

Science: Light, Plants.

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