Art and design skills
Creating collages, relief sculptures, and prints, learners learn to combine shapes, patterns, and textures in their art, focusing on mechanical themes.
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Unit 5: Art and design skills
Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Use scissors with care and purpose to cut out images.
- Try out multiple arrangements of cut images to decide on their composition.
- Use different tools to create marks and patterns when scratching into a painted surface.
- Show some awareness of how to create contrast by including areas with more and less marks.
- Create an interesting finished drawing based on their original composition, including detail such as contrast and pattern.
- Work co-operatively to create a joint artwork, experimenting with their methods.
- Make a layered relief sculpture with mechanical shapes and different textures.
- Create a collaborative piece of art inspired by an artist.
Suggested prior learning
This unit offers learners the opportunity to consolidate and apply their learning from the previous Stage 4 Art and design units.Lessons
Lesson 1: Mechanical compositions
- To plan a composition for a mixed-media drawing.
Lesson 2: Wax resist
- To use shading techniques to create pattern and contrast.
Lesson 3: Power prints
- To work collaboratively to develop drawings into prints.
Lesson 4: Relief sculptures
- To make a layered sculpture with mechanical shapes and different textures.
Lesson 5: Exploring impasto
- To create a collaborative piece of art inspired by an artist.
Key skills
Consolidation of key skills
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composition
cross-hatching
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Vocabulary display: S4 Art and design skills