This Art and design video shows the children how to create a continuous line portrait by carefully observing a face. Through a clear demonstration, the children learn to spend more time looking at their subject than at the page, helping them notice shapes, lines and details as they draw.

The video models how to keep the pen or pencil on the page so that the portrait is created using one continuous line. The children are encouraged to focus on careful observation rather than trying to make their portrait look perfect, helping them develop confidence in observational drawing and experiment with a different approach to representing a face.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Art and design painting videos, which support teachers in developing confidence and subject knowledge as they help children explore artistic processes and communicate their ideas through art.

See more of our Year 5 Art and design scheme of work.

• Art and design, Year 5, Painting and mixed media: Expressive portraits, Lesson 1: Exploring self-portraits
• Art and design, Year 5, Painting and mixed media: Expressive portraits.