Year 4 - Art and design
Design a digital dreamscape
Dream portraits: drawing and digital design
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Unit Summary
This unit explores how dreams have inspired artists, especially the Surrealists. Pupils will illustrate a piece of dream text, then learn how to draw and shade a sleeping portrait, before transforming it into a digital design.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use a variety of digital tools to manipulate images to create a digital dreamscape.
Key Notes
- Artists can digitally manipulate images and photographs using crop, saturation and contrast adjustment tools.
- Shapes and colour can be used to fill a digital space.
- An artist can overlap images to add depth to their composition.
Vocabulary To Learn
- digital manipulation: to change or alter an image using digital technology
- adjustment tools: to use tools such as contrast, brightness or crop to change an image
- depth: where an artwork looks like it is three dimensional
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Photographic images always reflect reality.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Artists can digitally manipulate images and photographs using crop, saturation and contrast adjustment tools. Shapes and colour can be used to fill a digital space.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'digital manipulation'
to change or alter an image using digital technology.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Photographic images always reflect reality. Correction: Remind children that photographic images can be digitally manipulated using a computer or digital software, they do not always reflect reality.
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