Painting & mixed media: Portraits

This unit offers pupils opportunities to develop skills in creating interesting portrait drawings using words, experimenting with materials and techniques, and constructing self-portraits that represent aspects of themselves. This comprehensive unit enhances their understanding and application of art vocabulary and encourages thoughtful decisions in their artwork composition. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.

Lessons

Lesson 1: Poem portrait

  • To explore how a drawing can be developed.

Lesson 2: Developing drawings

  • To combine materials for effect.

Lesson 3: Self-portraits

  • To identify the features of self-portraits.

Lesson 4: Changing faces

  • To develop ideas towards an outcome by experimenting with materials and techniques.

Lesson 5: Mixed-media portraits

  • To apply knowledge and skills to create a mixed media self-portrait.

Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Key knowledge

Formal elements:

  • Colour:

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Key vocabulary

art medium

atmosphere

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Unit resources

Assessment – Art and design Y5: Painting and mixed media

Assessment resources for this unit. Use

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Knowledge organiser

Aimed at pupils, a single page

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Key vocabulary

A display version of the key

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Subject resources

Art and design: Long-term plans

A suggested order for teaching Art

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National curriculum mapping

This document maps the National curriculum

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Assessment

A spreadsheet for recording teacher assessments

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Key vocabulary

This document lists the new vocabulary

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Equipment list

A checklist of art equipment required

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Art and design – List of artists

This document lists the artists studied

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