Webinar recording: How to use sketchbooks in primary Art and design – 26th January 2022

This video explores how to make the most of sketchbooks in primary Art and Design lessons. It offers practical tips for integrating sketchbooks into the creative process, encouraging experimentation, reflection, and personal expression. Perfect for boosting confidence in both teachers and pupils, the video highlights sketchbooks as an essential tool for developing artistic skills and documenting progress over time.

Presented by Lucy Roff. Find the accompanying slides here.

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Exploring the purpose and impact of images from the ‘Space race’ era of the 1950s and 60s; developing independence and decision-making using open-ended and experimental processes; combining drawing and collagraph printmaking to create a futuristic image.

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Space imagery

Lesson 2: Drawing decisions

Lesson 3: Teis Albers

Lesson 4: A vision of the future

Lesson 5: Revisiting ideas

Key skills

  • Develop ideas more independently from their own research. Explore and record their plans, ideas and evaluations to develop their ideas towards an outcome.
  • Confidently use sketchbooks for purposes including recording observations and research, testing materials and working towards an outcome more independently.
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Key knowledge

  • Shape: Shapes can be used to place the key elements in a composition.
  • Line: Lines can be used by artists to control what the viewer looks at within a composition, eg by using diagonal lines to draw your eye into the centre of a drawing.
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Key vocabulary

cold war

collagraph

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