Year 1 Art and Design

Drawing- Exploring line and shape

In this topic pupils will identify that some shapes are organic, connect lines to create shapes, use and recognise different types of lines when drawing shapes, identify basic shapes in everyday objects and artwork, talk about what they like or dislike in a piece of artwork, use shapes to draw a face, use different pressures to make a colour lighter or darker and choose lines and shapes inspired by Brianna McCarthy’s artwork.

1. Exploring line- How can you make a line look different from another line? To explore control and pressure to create different types of lines.

2. Musical line- Can you draw a line that matches the beat of the music?  To practise drawing different lines using music as a stimulus.

3. Exploring shapes- How can you use lines to make a circle, square, or triangle?  To connect lines to create shapes.

4. Shape in art- What shapes can you see in a person’s face?  To explore lines and shapes in pictures for portrait drawing.

5. Klee portraits- How can pressing hard or softly with your pencil or crayon change the colour? To use control and pressure skills to add colour to a drawing.

Drawing- Exploring line and shape

National Curriculum Objectives

• To learn about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

• To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

• To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

Sculpture & 3D- Paper Play 

This topic introduces pupils to paper-based 3D art forms, focusing on techniques like rolling paper tubes and attach them to a base securely, making choices about their sculpture, e.g. how they arrange the tubes on the base or the colours they place next to each other, shape paper strips in a variety of ways to make 3D drawings, glue strips to a base in an interesting arrangement, overlapping some strips to add interest, create a tree of life sculpture that includes several different techniques for shaping paper, considered how to add detail by adding pattern or decoration to their paper shapes, work successfully with others, sustaining effort over time and explore different tools to paint a sculpture for good coverage and to create a metal surface effect.

1. Tube towers- How can I roll paper to make a strong tube?  To roll paper to make 3D structures.

2. 3D drawings- How can I bend or fold paper to make it stand up?  To shape paper to make a 3D drawing.

3. Tree of life- What shapes do I need to make my tree?  To apply paper-shaping skills to make an imaginative sculpture.

4. Giant spider model Part 1-How can we share ideas in our group?  To work collaboratively to plan and create a sculpture.

5. Giant spider model Part 2- How is painting a 3D model different from painting on flat paper? To explore ways of painting 3D surfaces to create different effects.

Sculpture & 3D- Paper Play

National Curriculum Objectives

•  To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

• To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

• To learn about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

• To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.

Painting & mixed media- Learning about paint and brush control

In this topic children learn how to hold a brush in a comfortable, functional grip, name at least two colours correctly and use colours with increasing confidence, make two to three different marks with some control, use more than one brush confidently and describe the differences between marks made with large and small brushes, clean brushes between colours and wipe or blot excess water before painting, use a sketchbook to explore ideas, plan and place marks with purpose, produce a painting with smooth areas of colour and clearly separated colour blocks and choose appropriate brushes for different tasks, make consistent, repeated marks inspired by the artists studied and talk confidently about their choices.

1. Paint and brush control- How can I hold and move a paintbrush in different ways? -  To learn how to hold and move a paintbrush in different ways.

2. Exploring brushes- How can different paintbrushes make different marks? - To explore how different brush sizes create different marks.

3. Controlling paint- How can I control my paintbrush to make the marks I want? - To develop control when using paint.

4. Planning a painting- How can I plan my own painting using colours and marks? - To learn how to plan a painting.

5. Final piece-How can I create a painting inspired by Alma Thomas using my plan? - To create a painting inspired by Alma Thomas using a plan.

Painting & mixed media- Learning about paint and brush control

National Curriculum Objectives

• To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

• To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

• To learn about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.