Year 2 - Art and design
Imaginative memory drawing
Paradise island: drawing and sculpture
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Unit Summary
This unit develops pupils' ability to draw expressively and imaginatively in a range of media. They will investigate how and why artists create their art, before designing and sculpting an imaginary paradise island either individually or collaboratively.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create an imaginative memory drawing.
Key Notes
- 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.
Vocabulary To Learn
- 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 Mistakes To Avoid
- Children may think that art is only about copying what you see, not what you feel or imagine.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key 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.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'mark-making'
lines, shapes, or textures you create with different tools.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Children may think that art is only about copying what you see, not what you feel or imagine. Correction: Art can involve expressive mark-making, imaginative thinking and communicating mood or ideas.
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