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 learnt how different textures can be created using pencils. The children then explored around school and record 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, before foding it and then drawing over the top to see if we could get the wax to transfer.

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

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

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Self-Portraits

This term we are going to be developing our sketching skills and creating 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 created. 

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

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