Drawing: Expressing ideas
Exploring how drawing can be used to express ideas and messages, inspired by a range of street art examples and environmental themes.
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Drawing: Expressing ideas
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify key features of street art and murals.
- Discuss the intention and impact of street art.
- Use various shading techniques to show texture, tone, form and depth.
- Apply one point perspective in their work.
- Enlarge a drawing by scaling using an accurately drawn grid.
- Show an understanding of perspective, scale and proportion with a level of accuracy across their design.
- Choose appropriate materials for their design and explain their choices and intention.
- Use space effectively to enhance visual impact of their graffiti tag.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Depth, emotion and movement
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: What is street art?
Lesson 2: How do artists use one point perspective?
Lesson 3: Scaling up
Lesson 4: Planning street art
Lesson 5: Making a street-art-inspired piece
Optional lesson
Optional: Every picture tells a story
Key skills
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Resources
Unit resources
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Vocabulary display: Drawing: Expressing ideas through art
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Expressing ideas through art'.
Art and design
Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Expressing ideas through art
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Expressing ideas through art’.
Cross-curricular opportunities
None.