Throckley Primary School Art Overview Early Years
Autumn
Children experience art and design through EY Curriculum strand ‘expressive arts and design’. Use 3D/construction materials and combine to make structures Explore colour mixing (large scale, outdoor). Children supported to discuss effects.
Summer
Spring
Early observational drawing – simple picture / few features. Children can mix colours using paint, pastel and other mark making equipment and talk about what happens. Children will learn how to use tape to combine 2 or more objects together including the use of the dispenser.
Year 1 Drawing – line and texture Explore materials and tools for mark making.
Drawing – line and texture Evoke mood and represent movement through mark making.
Painting – colour and tone Explore mark making with paint using primary colours. Build on EYFS – Colour mixing
Painting – Colour and tone Explore line, colour and shape.
Printmaking – line and pattern Explore resist and relief block printing, negative stencils and clay slabs.
Textiles – Pattern and texture (textiles and collage) Explore dip dye technique.
Children will know about repeated patterns using colour.
Textiles – Pattern and texture Explore weaving with natural and manufactured materials.
Children will know the names of colours they make when painting.
Explore wrap, tie, knot and peg techniques for fabric dying.
Create representations of people and objects using different techniques, skills and media and can say what they are.
3D – form and shape Use natural and manufactured materials. Build on EYFS – Combining materials
Use the natural world to bring all the skills together (define shape, colour, texture and smell). Children show preference in a dominant hand. Children hold a paintbrush like a pencil (tripod grip).
Year 2
Create plaster casts from clay impressions. Collage – texture Explore the visual and tactile qualities of natural and manufactured objects.
Year 3 Drawing and painting Combine drawing and resist exploring colour, line and shape. Build on Year 2 – line , colour and shape Create tints and learn painting techniques of tonking and sgraffito.
Make your own painting tools and develop colourmixing skills using secondary colours. Build on Year 1 - primary colours
Use relief and block printing techniques on fabric. Build on Year 1 – printmaking (relief block)
Print making – line and pattern Create monoprints and explore mark making and pattern with printing tools. 3D – form and shape Create coil pots using clay.
Create large-scale work focusing on line, colour and shape. Build on Autumn – Drawing and painting
Printmaking – line and pattern Create repeated patterns with positive and negative space. Build on EYFS – Repeating patterns Use natural objects as stimulus. 3D – form and shape Explore aboriginal art combining different colours of clay.
Year 4
Year 5
Drawing Create contour drawings using still life and natural forms.
Drawing and painting Learn about and use the technique of subtractive drawing.
Painting Learn about abstract and develop colour-mixing skills to include tertiary colours. Build on Year 2 – Secondary colours
Use organic lines to create landscapes.
Printmaking and Textiles Create monoprint and press prints on fabric and make collages.
Textiles and collage Create wall hangings using layered collage and weaving techniques. Build on Year 4 – layered collage
Create repeated patterns by flipping and rotating images. Build on Year 2 Printmaking– (Repeating patterns)
Year 6 Painting and collage Create still life compositions by combining different media and response to cubist work. Build on Year 4 drawing (still life) Adapt and refine ideas and techniques and respond to different styles of art and movements.
Printmaking and textiles Explore batik technique.
Draw and paint of fabric surfaces.
Use natural forms as a starting point for artwork. Build on Year 4 – drawing natural forms
Use tie-dye, knotting and wrapping techniques. Build on Year 1 - textiles
Textiles – Pattern and texture (textiles and collage) Explore pattern and colour combinations. Use collograph and plasticine blocks and tiedye. Build on Year 2 Textiles Explore positive and negative space. Explore line and shape and create a paper collage. Build on Year 2 – Textiles and collage
Collage and 3D Create wire structures, focusing on line and form. Combine 3d materials. Build on EYFS – Combining materials Combine a range of techniques such as overlapping and layering.
3D and printmaking Create slab pots and learn techniques to join and seal clay sections. Create tissue paper bowls. Create three colour prints and combine printing techniques. Build on Year 3 Printmaking
Drawing and 3D Combine techniques to create an abstract image. Learn about surrealism and portraiture. Explore shape, form and colour and explore the effect of heat to create chihuly-style glass.