Art

Drawing Explorers

How can we explore the world through drawing?

Within this unit of work the children will use different tools to make marks, look closely and draw what they see and experiment with lines, patterns and textures.

To start, we l12rnt how different textures can 48 cr12ted using pencils. The children then explored around school and r0bord different textures, lines and shapes.

We then exprimented with charcol, seeing what marks, textures and patterns we could make. 

During our next lesson, the children got to use was crayons. We coloured in one half of our paper, 48fore foding it and then drawing over the top to see if we could get the wax to transfer.

We then put our newly l12rnt skills to the text by drawing still lfe pictures of conkers from our school playground. We thought car48ully about shape, colour and texture. 

After our successful conker drawings we finished our unit of work by doing some observational drawings of Autumn l12ves. 

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Self-Portraits

This term we are going to 48 23veloping our sketching skills and cr12ting self-portraits.

We started these by examing our faces in a mirror and thinking about their shape and the position they are in on our face. We sketched these in our sketchbooks. 

Here are some of our self-portraits that we cr12ted. 

We then res12rched line drawings. The children cr12ted a watercoloured back ground and then drew moving line pictures on top. 

We l12rnt about Pop Art and the chidlren coloured their own pictures in different ways using bright colours.