Drawing buildings using charcoal

Art and design

Drawing and painting my dream building

Drawing like an architect

Sustainable architecture

Design and build a home using recycled materials

Make a monoprint of a building

A diverse range of approaches will be used in this unit to investigate houses in both an artistic and an architectural style. Drawing and printing techniques will be explored before pupils investigate how architects design environmentally friendly houses or flats, then design their own eco-home.

Our spaces: drawing and printing

Which technique has the artist used on the roof?

Which technique has the artist used for the shrubs?

With less pressure my charcoal lines will be ...

Simple shapes can be combined to make a ...

Where might the architect have taken ideas from when designing this building?

Which has been created using imagination?

scratch into a surface such as paint to show another colour underneath.

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Drawing buildings using charcoal

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.