*Updated* Drawing: Exploring line and shape
Exploring line and shape; working and experimenting with different materials through observational and collaborative pieces inspired by artists.
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Drawing: Exploring line and shape
Introducing updates to our drawing units
Kapow Primary is thrilled to announce updates to the drawing curriculum for Years 1–6. The enhancements include a clearer and more structured progression of knowledge and skills, increased opportunities for skill reinforcement, broader exposure to diverse artists and new educational videos for teachers and pupils.
This updated unit introduces these exciting new elements while retaining selected aspects of the archived unit Drawing: Make your mark, which will remain in the archive area. It will remain permanently available but will not be updated in line with curriculum or website developments.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify that some shapes are organic.
- Connect lines to create shapes.
- Use and recognise different types of lines when drawing shapes.
- Identify basic shapes in everyday objects and artwork.
- Talk about what they like or dislike in a piece of artwork.
- Use shapes to draw a face.
- Use different pressures to make a colour lighter or darker.
- Choose lines and shapes inspired by Brianna McCarthy’s artwork.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Marvellous marks
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Exploring line
Lesson 2: Musical lines
Lesson 3: Exploring shapes
Lesson 4: Shape in art
Lesson 5: Klee portraits
Optional: Every picture tells a story
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Exploring line and shape
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Exploring line and shape’.
Vocabulary display – Art and design: Drawing: Exploring line and shape
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Exploring line and shape'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Music.
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes.