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Dream portraits: drawing and digital design

6 lessons

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  • Collage
  • Digital
  • Draw

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Thsi 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.

The Surrealists were a key movement in western art and design who continue to have a profound influence on culture to this day. This unit will address key artistic skills in drawing and tonal shading, before developing knowledge and understanding of digital design and composition.

  1. Art about dreams
  2. Illustrate a piece of text about dreams
  3. Make a portrait of a sleeping person
  4. Add tone to your sleeping portrait
  5. Surreal dreamscape collage
  6. Design a digital dreamscape

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