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Painting and mixed-media: Expressive portraits
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ARCHIVED Year 5: Painting and mixed media: Portraits

Investigating self-portraits by a range of artists, pupils use photographs of themselves as a starting point for developing their own unique self-portraits in mixed media.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Outline a portrait drawing with words, varying the size, shape and placement of words to create interest.
  • Try a variety of materials and compositions for the backgrounds of their drawings.
  • Communicate to their partner what kind of photo portrait they want.
  • Show that they are making decisions about the position of a drawing on their background, trying multiple ideas.
  • Create a successful print.
  • Use some Art vocabulary to talk about and compare portraits.
  • Identify key facts using a website as a reference.
  • Explain their opinion of an artwork.
  • Experiment with materials and techniques when adapting their photo portraits.
  • Create a self-portrait that aims to represent something about them.
  • Show they have considered the effect created by their choice of materials and composition in their final piece.

Lessons

Lesson 1: Poem portrait

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Lesson 2: Developing drawings

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Lesson 3: Self-portraits

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Lesson 4: Changing faces

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Lesson 5: Mixed-media portraits

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Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Key knowledge

Formal elements:

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Key vocabulary

art medium

atmosphere

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Knowledge organiser: Art & design – Y5 Painting and mixed-media

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit. "Painting and mixed media: Portraits".

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Vocabulary display: Portraits

A display version of the key vocabulary from the Portraits unit.

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