Year 2 Art and Design

Drawing- Understanding tone and texture

This unit focuses on developing drawing skills by experimenting with a range of materials to create marks and tones, using different pressures and control to make different marks, describing the texture of objects, identifying how artists use tone, controling shading to show tone, sketching simple shapes lightly so that changes can be made, refining a drawing by building up the outline of an object and posing to show a clear expression and head position to create a photograph.

1. Exploring drawing materials- What different drawing materials can I use?  To explore drawing techniques using a range of materials.

2. Understanding and creating texture- How can I describe this texture using words?  To explore and describe texture through touch and rubbings.

3. Exploring tonal shading- Can I make light, medium and dark shades?  To develop tonal shading skills using control and pressure.

4. Sketching and refining a drawing- What shapes can I see in the object? To develop an initial sketch for an observational drawing.

5. Creating an observational drawing- How can I use shading to show light and dark areas? To use tone and texture to create an observational drawing.

Drawing- Understanding tone and texture

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.

Painting & mixed media - Colour mixing

This unit focuses on teaching primary and secondary colours, explaining that primary colours cannot be created by mixing other colours, recognising and explaining that mixing primary colours creates new colours, describing which primary colours mix to create each secondary colour, mixing a secondary colour successfully for a purpose, identifying how artists use paint to create different effects, using a range of brushstrokes with control and making creative choices that show their own thoughts and ideas.

1. Exploring primary colours-What are the primary colours, and what happens when we mix them? - To explore how primary colours mix to make new colours.

2. Primary and secondary colours- How can I mix primary colours to make secondary colours?-  To explore mixing coloours into secondary colours.

3. Creating secondary colours for a pupose-How can I mix colours to create the colours I need for my artwork? -To create secondary colours for a purpose.

4. Using paint in different ways-How can artists use paint in different ways to create different effects? - To explore how artisits use paint to achieve different effects

5. Applying colour mixing skills-How can I use my colour-mixing skills to create my own piece of art?  To apply colour mixing skills to develop a piece of art.

Painting & mixed media - Colour mixing

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.

• 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.

Sculpture & Clay- Clay houses

This unit focuses on teaching pupils to flatten and smooth their clay, rolling shapes successfully and making a range of marks in their clay, make a basic pinch pot and join at least one clay shape onto the side using the scoring and slipping technique, roll a smooth tile surface, join clay shapes and make marks in the tile surface to create a pattern, draw a house design and plan how to create the key features in clay and create a clay house tile that has recognisable features made by both impressing objects into the surface and by joining simple shapes.

1. Exploring clay- Can I make different shapes using my hands?  To use my hands as a tool to shape clay.

2. Pinch pots- How do I make a pinch pot using my fingers and thumb?  To shape a pinch pot and join clay shapes as decoration.

3. Applying skills in clay- What tools can I use to make marks? To use impressing and joining techniques to decorate a clay tile.

4. Designing a tile- What shapes will I include in my design? To use drawing to plan the features of a 3D model.

5. House tiles- How can I turn my drawing into a clay model? To make a 3D clay tile from a drawn design. 

Sculpture & Clay- Clay houses

National Curriculum Objectives

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

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

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