Drawing: Growing artists

This unit focuses on teaching children the use of shapes, shading, and texture in art to enhance their drawing skills. It emphasises developing a sense of light and dark, using frottage for texture, and experimenting with different tools to create expressive and abstract art. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.

Lessons

Lesson 1: See like an artist

  • To recognise how artists use shape in drawing.

Lesson 2: Shading

  • To understand how to create tone in drawing by shading.

Lesson 3: Texture pictures

  • To understand how texture can be created and used to make art.

Lesson 4: Botanical drawing

  • To apply observational drawing skills to create detailed studies.

Lesson 5: Abstract flowers

  • To explore composition and scale to create abstract drawings.

Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Key knowledge

Formal elements:

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Key vocabulary

abstract

arrangement

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Unit resources

Assessment – Art and design Y3: Drawing

Assessment resources for this unit. Use

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Knowledge organiser

A visual summary document to support

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Key vocabulary

A display version of the key

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Subject resources

Art and design: Long-term plans

A suggested order for teaching Art

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National curriculum mapping

This document maps the National curriculum

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Assessment

A spreadsheet for recording teacher assessments

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Art and design: Progression of pupil skills and knowledge

Progression documents showing how skills and

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Key vocabulary

This document lists the new vocabulary

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Equipment list

A checklist of art equipment required

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Art and design – List of artists

This document lists the artists studied

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