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Continuous line portraits with poetry
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners to create expressive self-portraits that combine continuous line drawing with personal text or poetry. Learners draw themselves using a single, uninterrupted line to capture facial features and shadows, then overlay their portrait with words that follow the form of the face, building a layered, creative composition.
This video is part of Kapow’s Art and design resources, which support the Cambridge Primary Art & Design Curriculum Framework (0067). As part of the Painting and mixed media: Portraits unit, this lesson introduces learners to combining image and text, encouraging experimentation, self-expression and creative mark making.
Art and design, Stage 5, Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Portraits, Lesson 1: Poem portrait
