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
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
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)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Pencils ×30
- Rubbers and Pencil Sharpeners
- Drawing materials Includes: colouring pencils, chalk, oil and soft pastels, charcoal, wax crayons and felt tips / coloured markers
- 10x10cm white card squares ×30
- A range of paper including plain cartridge paper, sugar paper in different colours ×30
- Large roll of paper ×30
- Masking tape ×1
- Shape templates
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Pencils ×30
- Rubbers and Pencil Sharpeners
- Drawing materials Includes: colouring pencils, chalk, oil and soft pastels, charcoal, wax crayons and felt tips / coloured markers
- 10x10cm white card squares ×30
- A range of paper including plain cartridge paper, sugar paper in different colours ×30
- Large roll of paper ×30
- Masking tape ×1
- Shape templates
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.