Imaginative memory drawing
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can create an imaginative memory drawing
Key learning points
- Artists use expressive mark-making to communicate ideas and feelings.
- You can use line, colour and shape to create mood and atmosphere in drawings.
- Memory and imagination are important tools in creative art making.
- Artists sometimes work collaboratively to create art.
Keywords
Mark-making - lines, shapes, or textures you create with different tools
Memory - something you remember from the past
Expressive - to show thought and feeling
Collaborative - to work together
Common misconception
Children may think that art is only about copying what you see, not what you feel or imagine.
Art can involve expressive mark-making, imaginative thinking and communicating mood or ideas.
Teacher tip
Teachers could consider modelling their own expressive drawing and talking out loud about their thoughts and feelings as they draw. For Task B2 it may be helpful to create a word bank for pupils to aid their discussion.
Equipment
A range of drawing materials such as pastels, pencils, pens and charcoal, larger paper for a collaborative drawing
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which items here can be used to make a sculpture?
Q2.What is mark-making in drawing?
Q3.Which of these is NOT a kind of line you might use in mark-making?
Q4.Put these in the order for drawing a picture:
Q5.Match the artist to their work:
Builds 3D shapes
Draws pictures
Uses paints
Q6.Put these steps in the right order to make a clay sculpture:
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Being collaborative in art means ...
Q2.Why do we use memory in imaginative drawings?
Q3.Artists can use marks to ...
Q4.Expressive art is about ...
Q5.Match the type of mark to the feeling or idea it might show:
Joy, fun, wind, dancing
Energy, electricity, anger, excitement
Messiness, busyness, frustration
Water, movement, flowing hair, calmness
Q6.Match each word to its meaning:
Using lines, dots or patterns
Remembering something you saw or felt
Showing feelings in your artwork
Working together to create art
To help you plan your 2 art and design lesson on: Imaginative memory drawing, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 2 art and design lesson on: Imaginative memory drawing, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
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