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Drawing: Growing artists

This unit focuses on teaching children the use of shapes, shading, and texture in art to enhance their drawing skills. It emphasises developing a sense of light and dark, using frottage for texture, and experimenting with different tools to create expressive and abstract art. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.

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This unit has now been replaced by the Year 3 unit Drawing: Developing drawing skills. Kapow no longer updates these lessons, and they may not reflect the national curriculum or current guidance. They remain a permanent part of your subscription and will continue to be available for reference and use. We recommend that you explore the new versions of the lessons.

Lessons

Lesson 1: See like an artist

Lesson 2: Shading

Lesson 3: Texture pictures

Lesson 4: Botanical drawing

Lesson 5: Abstract flowers

Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Formal elements:

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Key vocabulary

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arrangement

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