Year 1 - Art and design
Building drawing machines
Mark-making: using drawing tools and techniques
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Unit Summary
In this unit puils will investigate, explore and use a range of materials and techniques to create drawings. They will make art expressively and spontaneously, exploring texture and pattern with a range of media before before creating drawing machines.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create your own drawing machine using a variety of objects.
Key Notes
- Artists can create marks holding a drawing tool, but they can also use objects and movement to create marks instead.
- A drawing machine works by moving in different ways to make lines, shapes and marks with moving objects.
- Artists might experiment with how the movement of the drawing machine creates different marks or patterns on the page.
Vocabulary To Learn
- movement: movement is when you make something go from one place to another
- object: an object is anything you can see or touch, like a toy, a book, or a ball
- drawing machine: a tool or device that helps make marks by moving in different ways
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Artists have to hold a drawing tool with their hands to make marks.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists can create marks holding a drawing tool, but they can also use objects and movement to create marks instead. A drawing machine works by moving in different ways to make lines, shapes and marks with moving objects.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'movement'
movement is when you make something go from one place to another.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Artists have to hold a drawing tool with their hands to make marks. Correction: Remind children that artists can make marks by holding a drawing tool but they can also make marks without directly touching the drawing tool.
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