Subject: Art and design

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Lesson 1: Observational drawing - houses

Drawing a house from observation; interpreting the details to draw accurately.

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Drawing: Understanding tone and texture

Exploring how artists use tone and texture, and applying these techniques in observational drawings.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Experiment with a range of materials to create marks and tones.
  • Use different pressures and control to make different marks.
  • Describe the texture of objects.
  • Identify how artists use tone.
  • Control shading to show tone.
  • Sketch simple shapes lightly so that changes can be made.
  • Refine a drawing by building up the outline of an object.
  • Pose to show a clear expression and head position to create a photograph.

Suggested prior learning

Drawing: Exploring line and shape

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Exploring drawing materials

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Lesson 2: Understanding and creating texture

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Lesson 3: Exploring tonal shading

  • To develop tonal shading skills using control and pressure.

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Lesson 4: Sketching and refining a drawing

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Lesson 5: Creating an observational drawing

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Optional: Every picture tells a story

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Key skills

  • Beginning to generate ideas from a wider range of stimuli, exploring different media and techniques.
  • Experimenting in sketchbooks, using drawing to record ideas.
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Key knowledge

  • Shape: Shapes can be organic (natural) and irregular.
  • Shape: Patterns can be made using shapes.
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Key vocabulary

grip

mark making

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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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  • Range of drawing materials For example, charcoal, white chalk, graphite sticks, soft and oil pastels, wax crayons and colour pencils
  • A3 good quality paper (100gsm or more) ×30
  • Device for taking photographs ×8
  • Teddy or soft toy
  • Sugar paper ×30
  • Scissors right- and left-handed options recommended. ×30
  • Glue stick ×30
  • Masking tape
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Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Understanding tone and texture

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Tone and texture’.

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Vocabulary display – Art and design Y2: Drawing: Understanding tone and texture

A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Understanding tone and texture'.

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