Art

Throughout this term the children will be exploring and focussing on a range of skills of themes, skills and artists.

Key Disciplines:  Drawing and sketchbooks.

Themes: Cave art, Movement, Human Body, Relationship of Body to Place

Aims:  To introduce children to the idea of making gestural drawing, exploring charcoal as a medium. How can we use our bodies to inform how we make marks?

Outcomes: Pupils go on to make drawings that capture a sense of drama or performance using charcoal. 

Key Skills:

• Understand how artists use charcoal in their work. Discuss the marks produced, and how I feel about their work.
• Experiment with the types of marks I can make with charcoal, using my hands as well as the charcoal.
• Work on larger sheets of paper, and I can make loose, gestural sketches using my body.
• Understand what Chiaroscuro is and how I can use it in my work.
• Use light and dark tonal values in my work, to create a sense of drama. 
• Use my body as a drawing tool to make drawings inspired by movement, and seen how other artists do the same.
• Take photographs of my work, thinking about focus, lighting, and composition.
• Share my work with my classmates and talked about what I felt was successful and what I might like to try again. I can voice what I like about my classmates' work and how it makes me feel.

Key Artists

Heather Hansen

Laura McKendry

Edgar Degas