Year 1 - Art and design
Mark-making and patterns
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 a range of patterns and marks using drawing tools you have made.
Key Notes
- Artists can create patterns by repeating shapes and lines.
- Artists can record patterns and detail in observed forms, using tools such a viewfinder to help them.
- Artists can make patterns using different kinds of tools, including ones that they make themselves.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pattern: a repeated arrangement of shapes, colours, or lines
- repeat: to use the same shape, colour, or line multiple times to create a pattern
- viewfinder: a tool, like a small frame, that helps you focus on and choose what part of a scene you want to look at
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Every mark or shape needs to be identical and placed in a perfectly regular sequence to make a pattern.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists can create patterns by repeating shapes and lines. Artists can record patterns and detail in observed forms, using tools such a viewfinder to help them.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'pattern'
a repeated arrangement of shapes, colours, or lines.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Every mark or shape needs to be identical and placed in a perfectly regular sequence to make a pattern. Correction: Remind children that patterns do not always have to be exactly the same each time, but they still follow a rule or idea.
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