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: Every picture tells a story
Key skills
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
- Hb pencils ×30
- Rulers ×30
- Glue sticks ×30
- Scissors right- and left-handed options recommended. ×30
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White A4 paper plus other paper of various sizes like tissue paper and textured paper for collage
×30 - Erasers ×30
- Pencil sharpeners ×30
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Coloured pencils, crayons, felt tips pens or markers, oil pastels, watercolour pencils
×30 - Paints ×8
- Paintbrushes ×30
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Hb pencils ×30
- Rulers ×30
- Glue sticks ×30
- Scissors right- and left-handed options recommended. ×30
-
White A4 paper plus other paper of various sizes like tissue paper and textured paper for collage
×30 - Erasers ×30
- Pencil sharpeners ×30
-
Coloured pencils, crayons, felt tips pens or markers, oil pastels, watercolour pencils
×30 - Paints ×8
- Paintbrushes ×30
Related content
Unit resources
Vocabulary display: Drawing: Expressing ideas through art
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Expressing ideas through art'.
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.