Year 1 - Art and design
Textured marks with charcoal
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 and describe a wide range of textured marks with charcoal.
Key Notes
- When an artist draws a texture, they are trying to show how something feels.
- We can use different marks and lines to show texture.
- Because it is soft, charcoal can show all the small textured details within a surface.
- Artists can use a frottage technique with charcoal which is when we create an artwork directly from a textured surface.
Vocabulary To Learn
- texture: how something feels or how something looks like it would feel
- charcoal: an art media made from burnt wood
- frottage: making an artwork by rubbing over a textured surface with a media to see the pattern underneath
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Texture describes something rough, bumpy or hard to touch.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
When an artist draws a texture, they are trying to show how something feels. We can use different marks and lines to show texture.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'texture'
how something feels or how something looks like it would feel.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Texture describes something rough, bumpy or hard to touch. Correction: Remind students that textures can be rough, hard and bumpy but they can also be smooth, soft and fuzzy.
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