Curriculum Overview

Art and Design

EYFS Objectives KS1 Objectives: KS2 Objectives: (Expressive Arts and Design ELGS): • Use a range of materials. • Use sketchbooks to collect, record and • Children safely use and explore a variety of • Use drawing, and evaluate ideas. materials, tools and techniques, Develop techniques of colour, pattern, • Improve mastery of techniques such as experimenting with colour, design, texture, texture, line, shape, form and space. drawing, painting and sculpture with varied form and function. • Learn about range of artists, craftsmen and materials. • Children use what they have learnt about designers. • Learn about great artists, architects & media and materials in original ways, designers. thinking about uses and purposes. They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.

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Reception Colour Painting Shape and Printing

Explore mark making and how colours Look at the primary colours and learn what they Look at a picture of a castle and pick out different can be changed. are. Introduce how to make the colour orange shapes we can see. Experiment to make different textures mixing red and yellow. Compare to the artist Paul Klee’s ‘Castle and Sun’ through rubbings. Look at Johns’ painting ‘Painting by Numbers’. and discuss the shapes used. Look at the colours. Observe autumnal trees in the What can you see? What numbers can you see in Go on an outdoor shape walk and identify 2D environment and create tree his work? Give each child a number to decorate in shapes in the environment. choosing appropriate colours for a similar style to Johns – thick paint ‘impasto’. Explore using 3D shapes to print to make 2D effect. Look at landscape paintings by Using number templates, children pick 3 numbers prints. Design a picture we would like to recreate David Hockney and explore how he and draw round the template so the numbers using this method of printing, e.g. a house and a uses bold colours to show seasons. overlap. Paint their drawing using the primary sun, a boat and a moon. Select shapes to create colours and by mixing orange in the style of Jasper this and print in the style of Paul Klee. Focus artist: David Hockney. Johns. Focus artist: . Focus artist: Paul Klee. Curriculum Overview

Art and Design End of unit outcome: Seasonal End of unit outcome: Painting by Numbers End of unit outcome: A printed piece of art tree paintings. piece of art. work in the style of Paul Klee. Year 1 Drawing Painting & Shape Texture & Collage

Explore mark making to start to build Look at Kadinsky’s ‘Squares with Concentric Play a piece of water/river/sea-themed music, such mark making vocabulary, e.g. drawing Circles’ and compare to ‘Composotion VIII’ as Debussy’s ‘La Mer’ and ask pupils what colours soft toys and drawing feathers using Key questions: they are imagining while listening to the music and simple line drawings with charcoal and What colours has the artist used?t | what kind of lines would best represent water. pencils using stroke marks. What shapes can you see? Look at the painting ‘Fishing Boats on the Beach at How do you think the piece of art was made? the Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer’ by Vincent Van Gogh Explore ’s artwork looking What does the piece of art remind you of? identifying different elements of the painting. at how he used colour and lines to How are the paintings the same? Different? Explore the different senses when looking at the create pop art paintings. Experiment painting; what can you see? What would you be with different lines (thick and thin) Look at a selection of 2D shapes – recap shape able to hear? Smell? Feel? Taste? and block colours to draw different names. Pick one part of the painting and explore using objects in a similar style. Model different shape compositions by gluing 2D different materials to recreate, e.g. sand, lentils for shapes, ensuring the shapes have no gaps the pebbled beach, scrunched cellophane for the Focus artist: Andy Warhol. between them i.e create a single mass. Create sea. Consider how to use PVA glue to apply these End of unit outcome: An individual shape compositions. materials. observational drawing (drawing Recognise primary colours and use an Recreate the painting using mixed media, applying what they see) of their favourite experimental approach to simple colour mixing to them accurately and carefully. toy from home using pencils. discover new colours. Explore drawing and painting shapes in nature: Focus artist: Vincent Van Gogh. whirlpools, flowers, shells etc using paints that End of unit outcome: A collage using have been mixed. different textures to recreate the painting Create a spiral snail in the style of Kadinsky on a ‘Fishing Boats on the Beach’. large square of black sugar paper using mixed paints. Focus Artist: Kadinksy. End of unit outcome: Spiral snails.

Curriculum Overview

Art and Design Year 2 Drawing and painting Collage and Mixed Media: Birds of Paradise Line, Pattern & Drawing

Develop mark making skills through Focus Artist: Hunt Slonem Look at the work of American artist Nancy experimentation with various drawing Introduce the website McCrowskey ‘Suite in Black and White’. Look at the media: pencil, graphite, chalk, wax https://www.birdsofparadise.org and look at design and discuss what objects and patterns they and charcoal. Explore a variety of images of different birds (you could use school recognise. Explore the variety of tones of grey in drawing starting points (stimuli) laptops and explore the website working in pairs). her artwork. Using squares of paper, explore including observation from primary Use Blooms Taxonomy questions to challenge ‘taking your pencil for a walk’, making a line that and secondary source materials, e.g. thinking. starts at the edge of the square and finishes at the looking at photos or artefacts from the Ask children to create interesting sketches and edge (not necessarily at the same point) to create Great Fire of London. drawings of some of their findings – this could be a straight or curved line. The lines within the Look at the work of Kara Walker who bold, brightly coloured drawings or simple line square may cross or they may not. Experiment creates silhouettes and explore drawings. shading their line drawing to create different tones drawing their own silhouettes to layer Introduce the work of artist Hunt Slonem. Look at – pressing lightly and heavier. over paintings. his painting ‘Lemurs’ and give each child a hand Look around the environment for patterns they can out of the painting. Ask them to find as many birds recreate in the same style, e.g. bricks, slabs, leaves Painting as possible in the painting. Draw on similarities etc. Create a 2x3 grid and fill each square with a Introduce children to the colour and differences between this painting and real different line pattern adding shade and tone. wheel. Understand the relationships birds on the BOP website. between primary and secondary Look at some other pieces of Slonem’s work and Focus Artist: Nancy McCrowskey. colours. Explore mixing colours to hand out some outlines of birds on a larger scale End of unit outcome: A drawing of everyday make new colours, e.g orange. and ask the children to invent colours using acrylic patterns in the style of Nancy McCrowskey’s Explore drawing silhouettes and paints they think will make the birds amazing to ‘Suite in Black and White’. layering over paintings. look at, using Hunt Slonem’s work as inspiration. The final piece will be to design an original bird of Focus Artist: Kara Walker. paradise. Model the making process first and show End of unit outcome: Silhouette the end result so the children understand the paintings of houses; The Great process (see notes attached for a step by step Fire of London. guide on how to make a bird of paradise) Once the bird of paradise is dry the children may choose to paint their birds with acrylic paint. Curriculum Overview

Art and Design Year 3 Painting and Collage Drawing and Painting Line, texture and colour

Make larger scale drawings and Look at the work of Quentin Blake who used line Prehistoric Art. collages from observation and drawings with exaggerated gestures in his Look at examples of cave art and identify the imagination. Apply and build upon illustrations to convey the intention of the drawing. animals they can see in the images. If we wanted colour mixing and mark-making skills Encourage children to really look at the figures and to show people in 5000 years time animals native previously learnt, thinking about how their facial expressions. Experiment with sketching to the UK, how could we do this in a similar style? certain colour ranges and characters with different facial expressions. Look at photos of animals and explore simple line combinations affect the outcome. Explore drawing with different pens (e.g ball point, drawings using pencils replicating the style of cave Explore painting on new surfaces such felt tips, gel etc) – draw different lines before art they have looked at. Explore this further by as fabric. moving onto characters from Quentin Blake’s work using charcoal to recreate some line drawings. Look the Bayeux Tapestry, an Blake uses watercolours to bring his paintings to Discuss the colours used in cave art and why they embroidered fabric that depicts the life. Practise using watercolours . are so limited. Explore what natural items we could Battle of Hastings. Pick one small Design a character in the style of Blake – complete use to make paint, e.g. fruit, leaves, mud etc. image from the tapestry and recreate a rough sketch of the character, then redraw using Practise painting with these (mix with flour and using collage and painting. Explore pens. Paint with watercolour to complete the water to make them thicker/thinner) mixing the twos medias together. illustration. Make a cave wall from scrunched up paper to make it textured. Sketch a cave wall drawing and use End of unit outcome: A home-made paints to paint. collaborative collage and painting Focus Artist: Quentin Blake. of the Bayeux Tapestry (combine End of unit outcome: Illustration of a new End of unit outcome: Create a cave wall each piece of artwork to create character. using home-made paints. one large collaborative piece). Year 4 Drawing and painting Texture & Pattern: Printing Look at the work of Ann Roth and use strips of paper to explore weaving learning the language of Look at portraits by artist Frida Kahlo. Making patterns from every day, familiar objects. ‘warp’ and ‘weft’ and practising the skill of going Answer questions about what they see Using playdough, children will create textures and under and over. Select two colours to weave. and feel about them. patterns using a simple print making technique by Introduce a selection of other weaving materials Discuss how the portraits were pressing items into the playdough to create their such as ribbon, wool, thread, cotton, plastic bags created and look at the proportions of own original patterns and designs. etc. Make a loom weaving board with string for the the face, practise sketching warp. Curriculum Overview

Art and Design proportional portraits in sketchbooks – Find and share everyday objects at school they Plan what a material/s they would like to use to quick sketch. could use. weft. Create a textured woven piece of art work Explore how Kahlo expressed Using playdough, roll out and cut the playdough to using mixed media. important moments in her life through make a square tile shape. With collection of her paintings. Pick one animal or objects, experiment by printing randomly into the Focus Artist: Ann Roth. objects from one of Kahlo’s paintings playdough to explore the shapes they make. End of unit outcome: A woven piece of art and recreate by sketching then Practise pressing firmly but without distorting the using mixed media painting. tile shape of the playdough. Ink the playdough block with paint and a sponge – Focus artist: Frida Kahlo. practise applying the right amount of paint for End of unit outcome: Recreate a optimal printing, i.e. not too much and not too photo from home of an important little. Lay a sheet of paper (or sketchbook) over moment in your life in the style of the top of the block and gently press with palm of Frida Kahlo. your hand to create a print. Repeat experimenting with mixing colours on the blocks.

Look Henri Matisse ‘Cut Outs’, e.g The Sheafs, and explore how he repeated patterns in bold colours.

Design their own piece of work in the style of Matisse using the playdough printing technique previously learnt.

Focus Artist: Henri Matisse. End of unit outcome: Printing in the style of Matisse ‘Cut Outs’. Year 5 Shape and painting Printing Drawing and Pattern

Explore architecture of another time, Introduce the style of art known as ‘op-art’ (short Sketch and draw a picture of a house, using photos e.g. ancient Greece and make for optical art) that uses optical illusions. or images taken from ‘Google: Street View’. Draw Curriculum Overview

Art and Design individual work in response to what is Look at the work of Luz Perez Ojeda and watch the house from observation. Work at greater depth seen, e.g sketching. the following clip: exploring lighter and darker shades. Photocopy in Enable evolution of ideas through a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5zaJym_wg4 black and white their drawings. combination of design through making that shows a piece of ‘Flip and 3D Lenticular’ Share the work of artist Friedensreich and drawn inspiration. artwork by Luz Perez Ojeda where an image of a Hundertwasser. Compare local buildings to ancient picture appears to change and move as the Look at different pattern ideas and explore Greek buildings. Cut up images of camera swings from one side of the picture to the recreating some patterns. Begin to consider how local buildings to collage together to other. Explain that the Lenticular Printing they would paint or decorate the outside of their make new buildings, e.g a Greek technique is an optical illusion and this is what home if they had unlimited resources, drawing on amphitheater. they will be creating. the work of Hundertwasser and the patterns they Look at the work of Paul Klee (Three https://luzperezojeda.net/lenticular-artworks have looked at. Houses, Red Bridge, Cold City). Using the photocopy of their earlier drawing, Explore colours and shapes within his Inspired by the ‘lenticular prints’ of Luz Perez decorate it in bold, bright paints adding patterns work. Recreate his style by painting Ojeda, children will carefully cut two images into that were earlier explored in the style of parts of local buildings in a similar strips and by alternating them side by side, in Huntertwasser’s work. style. sequential order on a concertinaed piece of paper, they will create an optical illusion piece of art (see Focus Artist: Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Focus Artist: Paul Klee. separate step by step guide). End of unit outcome: A pattern house End of unit outcome: Paul Klee painting. Amphitheater Focus Artist: Luz Perez Ojeda. End of unit outcome: Lenticular piece of artwork. Year 6 Drawing & painting Value and Colour Painting

Revisit still life. Develop drawing skills Macro art. Select an interesting object to study Look at the painting “The Scream” by Edvard using observational drawings in sketch (examples: seed heads, flowers, shells, metallic Munch. Discuss in depth the expressionistic books objects, crockery, leaves etc.). colours, a bright swirling sky which is the colour of Take an image of an everyday object, Using the class ipads, explore taking detailed close flames and the person facing us who is alone and, cut it up and rearrange on paper to up photos of the objects. You can also make a clasping their face, screaming out, standing on a make a cubist style image. frame from white card and hold it up to objects dock near water, with two shadowy figures are in and see what is inside the frame. the distance behind. Curriculum Overview

Art and Design Look at the work of Juan Gris and Look at the work of Sharon Johnstone who does Use: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the- Picasso. close up detailed images of water droplets. Ask, scream/eQFdRTFKDtVQ1A to look at it in depth Recreate a still life drawing in a similar what colour do you picture when you think of a zoomed in. Sketch facial expressions of a style and explore painting using water droplet? Share some of her artwork and screaming face. Use paints to explore colour, similar hues to that of Gris and discuss the vivid colours she uses, mixing and applying colours to match parts of the Picasso. If possible, print out the images – one in black and painting. How has the artist represented the sky white and one in colour. and the sea? Focus Artist/s: Juan Gris, Pablo Using shading pencils or charcoal, sketch out what Complete a final piece of the backdrop of the Picasso. they can see in the image. Draw a frame for them painting, leaving the screaming man out. End of unit outcome: Still life to draw the image within – their drawing must fill Take photos of each recreating the silent scream; painting in cubist style. the entire frame to the edges and be fully shaded, they must make sure they frame the photograph not just an outline. so that it is a similar composition to the painting Repeat this but in colour. Produce a colour image and includes the head, shoulders and position of using oil pastels trying to match the colour and hands. At this point, review their own photos tone as the colour photo. against the painting. Print the photos and stick them to the backdrop painting previously Focus Artist: Sharon Johnstone. completed. End of unit outcome: An oil pastel macro drawing Focus Artist: Edvard Munch. End of unit outcome: A mixed media recreation of ‘The Scream’.