Illustrate a piece of text about dreams

Art and design

Art about dreams

Make a portrait of a sleeping person

Add tone to your sleeping portrait

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

When artists make a __________, they are imagining what a dream might look like.

A poem is a piece of text that artists can use to {{}} them.

Leonora Carrington was a __________ artist.

True or false? Artists must always draw from what they observe in reality.

Surrealist artists are inspired by which of the following:

something you have not experienced in the real-world

something you have experienced in the real-world

True or false? Collage is the layering of paper to create an artwork.

Looking at an artwork and expressing what you feel

Talking about an artwork to express what you think or feel

Making images to express what you think or feel

Which of the following artists worked in a Surrealist style?

True or false? Digital media can only be created on a digital device.

Dark and atmospheric colours in the artwork

Objects which are unexpected sizes in the artwork

Strange or unusual things happening in the artwork

Which of these features are found in a Surrealist artwork?

__________ and __________ inspired the Surrealists.

Illustrate a piece of text about dreams

Lesson outcome