Add tone to your sleeping portrait

Art and design

Art about dreams

Illustrate a piece of text about dreams

Make a portrait of a sleeping person

Surreal dreamscape collage

Design a digital dreamscape

This unit explores how dreams have inspired artists, especially the Surrealists. Pupils will illustrate a piece of dream text, then learn how to draw and shade a sleeping portrait, before transforming it into a digital design.

Dream portraits: drawing and digital design

Which of these tools can be used to create tone?

To show {{ }} in drawing, an artist can use line, tone and shadow.

To achieve different {{ }} with pencil or charcoal, we use different amounts of ...

Dreamscapes are a combination of reality, dreams and the artist’s ...

We can show what we like about an artwork using a verbal and ...

Once we have planned our drawing with shapes, we can go back and change it.

{{ }} shapes have uniform measurements and do not appear in nature.

An outline can be created using a variety of {{ }} styles, in a variety of ...

Which of these shapes could be most useful when drawing a hand?

Add tone to your sleeping portrait

Lesson outcome