Lesson video

Hi there, my name is Ms. Davies, and I'm going to be teaching you your first art lesson of this unit today.

Now, before we get started, I wanted to get to know a little bit more about you.

You already know one thing about me, and that's my name.

Can you remember it? Well done.

Now, the second thing I want to tell you is that my favourite thing to do in the whole wide world is to draw.

Can you tell me what your favourite thing to do is? And maybe you can start your sentence off with, my favourite thing to do is.

Great, thank you for sharing that with me.

Now, if you didn't say that drawing was your favourite thing to do, that's completely fine.

And maybe you don't think you're the best at drawing, that's okay, but I hope by the end of today, or maybe the end of this unit, that I can maybe change your mind and maybe you'll start to love drawing just as much as me.

Now, before I tell you all of the exciting things we're going to get up to in today's lesson, there are some things I need to make sure you have in front of you.

You're going to need either a sketchbook, or three sheets of A4 plain paper will be fine.

You will need a pencil or a pen.

And the next things are a bit more up to you, so don't worry if you don't have all of them, but you might want to have some pastels, some chalks, some crayons, and maybe some felt-tip pens.

If you don't have these with you right now, can you pause here and go and get them for me please? Let's have a look at what we're going to do in today's lesson.

Firstly, we're going to be thinking, what does a good drawing look like? Hmm.

Then we're going to warm up with some drawing.

After that, we're going to identify, and identify means to look closely.

So we're going to be looking and describing the marks that we see in some of famous artists' work.

Then we're going to be experimenting with some mark making ourselves.

And after that, and finally, we're going to be showcasing everything we've learned in today's lesson by creating a piece of art using the marks we explore today.

Now, at the beginning of all of our lessons, we're going to go through some star words.

Can you say star words? Star words, fantastic.

And these are words that might help us later on in the lesson, so we need to try and remember how to say them.

Shall we do them together? Okay, the first one is mark, mark.

Line, line.

Straight, can you show me a straight arm? Straight.

Well done.

Curved, show me a curved arm.

Curved.

And pattern.

Can you make a pattern with your arm like this? Pattern, well done.

Okay, I want us to do a little bit of thinking and imagining right now, and for this task, I want you to close your eyes for me.

You can put your hands over your eyes if it helps you to keep them closed.

Are they closed? Okay, super.

Keep them closed whilst we do some thinking.

I want you to think, what does a good artist's drawing look like? So picture an artist, they might be a boy or a girl, and picture them sitting somewhere drawing.

Where are they? Maybe they're outside drawing in a garden or a forest.

Maybe they're in an art studio or in their house.

Now I want you to think, what is it they're drawing? Imagine the drawing in front of them.

What does it look like? Really look at the picture that they're drawing.

Okay, open your eyes.

Great.

Can you tell me what did you see? Great, thank you for sharing.

Now, lots of people, when they think of a really good drawing, they think it looks exactly like the real thing, so almost like a photograph.

But did you know that some of the most famous artists in the world draw things that look nothing like how they look in real life? It's really cool, and we're going to have a look at these pictures a bit later on in the lesson.

So our topic for this unit is drawing.

And at the beginning of every lesson, I'm going to get us to do a fun and quick drawing warm-up just to loosen up our creativity and get our imagination flowing.

Are you ready? Great.

Before we start our drawing warm-up, let's give our arms a little bit of a shake.

Let's give our hands a little bit of a shake.

Let's give our fingers a little bit of a wiggle, and now they feel a little bit ready and woken up, ready to draw.

For this first drawing warm-up activity, you're going to need a plain piece of paper or your scrapbook open on a blank page.

You're also going to need a pencil or a pen.

In this case, I'm using a pen just so you can see a little bit better.

The first thing you need to do is draw one large scribble.

You're going to keep your pen or pencil on the paper.

Go in any direction you want.

Take up as much space as you can on your paper.

Go all the way round.

And if you can, join it where you started.

Otherwise, finish wherever you end up.

Pause the video to complete your task and resume again when you're finished.

For the second part of your warm-up drawing activity, you're going to be using a little bit more imagination and creativity.

I want you to look at the different parts of your doodle or your scribble and try to imagine where could I put in a face or some features like eyes, ears, mouth, nose, maybe some legs? Or it could be some wheels if you think that a car could be in that place.

I think here I could add some wheels, and I could try to create this into a car.

There's a little man driving his car.

And some lights at the front, okay? Have a look round your picture.

Where could you add in some new marks to make a brand-new image? Get creative, get imaginative.

Turn your page around.

See where you can find something new to add.

This could be a fish.

Add some scales.

Oh, his tail's a bit small, but.

Okay? Have fun, get creative.

Pause the video now to complete the second part of your warm-up activity.

Press play when you're ready to carry on.

Finished? Fantastic.

Okay, now at the beginning of the lesson when I talked about what we're going to do today, I said we're going to be experimenting with mark making.

And experiment means to have a go and play around, but you might be thinking, well, what's mark making? What is mark making? What does that mean? Now, mark making is everything that you just did.

It's all the lines and dots and marks that we create on a piece of paper or in an artwork.

Can you help me recognise some marks on the next page? I'm going to show you some pictures.

You might already know a few.

Okay, let's look at the pictures one by one.

When I show you the picture of the mark, I want you to just describe what you see.

Here's the first one.

Did you say dots? Well done.

These are dots, and dots are the most simple and shortest mark we can make on a piece of paper or in an artwork.

I'm sure you've done dots before.

The next one? Lines, fantastic.

Now, these are not just any line.

How can we describe these lines? They are very straight.

Can you say straight? Straight, super.

Show me a straight arm in front of you.

Let's have a straight line.

Superb.

So these are lines, but we also get another type of lines.

We can have curved lines.

Can you show me curved lines with your arms? Let's make some curved lines.

Super.

Okay, we've got a few more pictures to show.

Hmm, how would you describe this? Did you say a zigzag? Yeah, I would call that a zigzag too.

It's a line that carries on in the same direction.

It's going up and down and up and down, and it repeats itself.

We call that a line pattern.

Can you say a line pattern? Fantastic.

And we have other line patterns.

We can have a squiggly line pattern.

Can you make a squiggly line pattern in the air? Super.

And we can also have a bit more complex ones.

These are called loops.

Can you make some loops in the air? Great job.

Let's look at this next picture together.

It's a picture of a star, isn't it? And it's been drawn using lots of different little marks.

Have a look at those little marks now.

The statement above it says, "This drawing has straight lines." Do you think this statement is true or false? Does this drawing have straight lines? Tell me now.

Fantastic, it was false.

This drawing does not have straight lines.

It was made up with lots of little curved lines.

Now we're going to look at some pictures together by some famous artists, and I want you to tell me how would you describe the marks in this artwork? Have a look now.

How would you describe them? Yes, super! They're not done with zigzags, are they? Are they made with dots? No, they are big loops.

All right, with your magnifying glass at the ready, have a little zoom around at this picture in front of you and see what marks you can find.

What marks has this artist used? Can you spot any? Tell me now.

Super, I saw some straight lines up here at the top of the picture, and I also saw some curved lines down at the bottom of the drawing.

Maybe this looks like it could have been some grass or a river flowing through the drawing.

Let's look at our next one.

With your magnifying glass ready, let's focus in on this picture and have a little bit of a look round at what you can see right now.

Can you see any different marks to the last picture? Tell me, what did you see? Fantastic work.

I spotted lots of little dots in this picture.

Did you see them too? I think the artist has used some dots to show the floor, and we can see some on the side of the buildings, and maybe it's there to represent the stones.

Okay, with our magnifying glasses ready to look at the next picture, make sure you're zooming around on all the little parts of the drawing.

Is there any different marks you can see in this one? Can you tell me now? Fantastic.

I saw those too.

Did you see all the little dots throughout this drawing? Great work.

All right, we're going to move on to a really fun activity now, so we need to make sure we have some of our equipment ready and in front of us right now.

The equipment we might need is crayons, pastels, felt-tip pens, and chalk, and we also need that sketchbook ready, open on a blank page, or maybe some A4 blank paper.

If you haven't got those things with you, please pause to get them now.

And remember, you only need two of these drawing materials, so if you only have felt-tip pens and pastels, that's absolutely fine.

Pause now to go and get them ready.

Okay, great.

So you should have your things ready in front of you now.

I have got some coloured pens, some oil pastels, and I didn't have any chalk, but I do have some soft pastels, which is very similar.

It doesn't matter what you've got, as long as you've got at least two different things you can draw with today.

So what we're going to do is we're going to have some fun experimenting with our own mark making today, and you can be expressive and as creative as you want.

So I'm going to start with some small dots.

And I remember we did some straight lines.

I'm going to do some small ones and some large ones and maybe some going in the other direction.

And I'm going to try a different material.

Here's my oil pastel.

I'm going to do the same and try some straight lines.

I'm going to try some small lines.

And what other type of lines did we look at today? Yes, some curved lines.

Let's do some curved lines.

Some big to small, small to big, and you can take up as much space on the page as you want.

Now I'm going to do a line pattern.

I think I'm going to do a zigzag, lovely.

And maybe a squiggle over here.

And then if you're feeling really creative, you can try and create your own line pattern.

So I'm going to do.

That looks really cool, I like that.

It doesn't matter if you go over the other lines.

And maybe, oh, a spiral.

Here's a smaller one.

I might do some dots with my pastels, okay? So get creative, fill your page as much as you can with as many different marks you can think of, have fun, and see what you can come up with.

Pause this video now to complete your task, and when you've finished, you can click again to carry on.

Fantastic work, everyone.

I bet you have done some great mark making on your piece of paper today.

Now I want you to put that piece of paper or your sketchbook in front of you so you can see it.

And I'm going to ask you to use your pointing finger.

Can you show me your pointing finger? I want you to point to me the marks you have made as I say them, okay? With your pointing finger, can you show me where you have tried to draw some straight lines? Point now.

Super.

Can you show me some curved lines that you've drawn today, some curved lines? Fantastic, can you point to me with your pointing finger some dots that you might have drawn, some dots? Great, can you point to me with your pointing finger a pattern, a pattern, a line pattern that you've done? And can you describe that line pattern to me now? Super, maybe you did a zigzag, or maybe you did a squiggly line pattern, or maybe you even tried some of the loops.

Did you create any new marks that we didn't discuss today? Maybe you had a go at inventing your own.

Can you point to me on your piece of artwork where you might have tried making a new mark? Fantastic, and do you think you could try to describe that mark to me using some of the words we've learned today, like straight or curved or pattern? Can you tell me now? Fantastic, well, I hope you enjoyed exploring mark making as much as I did today, and I hope that if you draw between now and next lesson, maybe you will try to include some of the new marks you've explored in your drawing.

Have a go, have fun, and I'll see you next time, bye-bye!.