KS1 & KS2 art and design curriculum

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Year 3

The Rainforest: drawing and painting

6 lessons

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  • Collage
  • Draw
  • Paint

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Pupils will learn about different artists who used forest scapes as their subject. They will create rubbings and make a collage from objects they have collected, before making observational drawings and developing and realising their own rainforest painting.

This unit incorporates more advanced colour mixing and use of tone and hue, as well as proportion and perspective to create depth and atmosphere.

  1. Artists who use the rainforest as inspiration for their artwork
  2. Make frottage leaf studies
  3. Collage skills using the rainforest as inspiration
  4. Draw the rainforest: studies of plants and leaves
  5. Explore the shades, textures and colours of a rainforest
  6. Paint a rainforest

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