In Art - Our enquiry question will be 'How can we use our whole bodies to make drawings?

Area(s) of making: Drawing and sketchbooks, collage.

Formal Elements: Line, colour, shape, texture

Pathway: Spirals

The children will explore mark making using a variety of media such as chalks, pastels, pens and charcoal. They will explore how they can use movement to create spiral shapes and apply this to observational drawings of shells. We will also learn about how artists use sketchbooks to record their ideas and create our own to use in provision. 

Our key knowledge is:

• Drawing is a physical and emotional activity. That when we draw, we can move our whole body.
• That we can control the lines we make by being aware of how we hold a drawing tool, how much pressure we apply, and how fast or slow we move.
• That we can control the lines we make by being aware of how we hold a drawing tool, how much pressure we apply, and how fast or slow we move.
• That we can use colour to help our drawings engage others.
• That we can draw from imagination.
• That we understand what a sketchbook is.
• That we can use a sketchbook for personal creative exploration.
• That we can draw from observation.
• That we can experiment with mark making through exercises such as continuous line drawing.
• That we can create drawings in our sketchbooks.
• That we can talk respectfully about our own work and the work of others in a peer discussion.
• That we can display the work made over the half term.

Our key skills are:

•  Pupils become familiar with creating drawings using their whole body, whilst experiencing a range of drawing materials.
• Pupils discover an artist and will demonstrate their understanding of the artist’s work by responding through a making challenge and peer discussion.
• Pupils consolidate their understanding of how they can make spiral drawings using their whole bodies by making “snail drawings”.
• Pupils push exploration of different qualities of line, colour blending, and mark making using chalk and oil pastels.
• Pupils become familiar with what a sketchbook can be used for. They will make or personalise their own sketchbooks, demonstrating that they have ownership of their sketchbook and understand that it is a platform for personal creative risk taking.
• Pupils become familiar with the idea that they can make drawings through observation.
• Pupils show an understanding of what a continuous line drawing is and have had the opportunity to experiment with scale, line and materials.
• Pupils reflect on their drawings over the half term, sharing what they like and what they would like to try again through peer discussion.