Year 3 - Art and design
Make a repeat pattern print
Insects: drawing and printmaking
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Unit Summary
Pupils will explore the world of insects up close, recording their observations using line drawing techniqes. They will develop these drawings through a number of print processes, before creating and realising a design for surface print.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a repeating pattern using an insect motif.
Key Notes
- Artists can use a printing block multiple times to create a continuous design.
- Artists can explore symmetry, rotation and spacing to develop an effective repeat pattern.
Vocabulary To Learn
- printmaking: making pictures by pressing a design from a block, plate, or screen onto paper or fabric
- print / printing: a way of making a copy of something
- motif: a repeated pattern, image, or theme
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that a repeat pattern means just stamping the same image randomly.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists can use a printing block multiple times to create a continuous design. Artists can explore symmetry, rotation and spacing to develop an effective repeat pattern.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'printmaking'
making pictures by pressing a design from a block, plate, or screen onto paper or fabric.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils may think that a repeat pattern means just stamping the same image randomly. Correction: Demonstrate how patterns can follow a structured repetition, showing examples of tiling techniques.
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