Drawing: Make your mark
Developing understanding of different line types and shapes in drawing. Enhancing learners' ability to describe lines, control drawing materials like pencils and chalk, and experiment with various media, while responding to music.
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Unit 1: Drawing: Make your mark
Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Draw various lines using different pressures and control in response to music.
- Identify that some shapes are organic.
- Connect lines to create shapes.
- Use and recognise different types of lines when drawing shapes.
- Identify basic shapes in everyday objects and artwork.
- Talk about what they like or dislike in a piece of artwork.
- Use shapes to draw a face.
- Use different pressures to make a colour lighter or darker.
- Colour within the lines consistently.
- Use Paul Klee’s artwork as inspiration.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Exploring line
- To explore control and pressure to create different types of lines.
Lesson 2: Musical lines
- To practise drawing different lines using music as a stimulus.
Lesson 3: Exploring shapes
- To connect lines to create shapes.
Lesson 4: Shape in art
- To explore lines and shapes in pictures for a portrait drawing.
Lesson 5: Klee portraits
- To use control and pressure skills to add colour to a drawing.
Key skills
Experiencing:
- E.01 Encounter, sense,
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Vocabulary display – Art and design S1: Drawing: Making your mark
A display version of the unit vocabulary.