Year 4 - Art and design
Illustrate a piece of text about dreams
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 create a dreamscape inspired by a text.
Key Notes
- Dreams can inspire artists to create artwork, like the Surrealists.
- Dreamscapes use a combination of the artist's imagination, ideas from dreams and things observed in reality.
- Texts can describe a dream which the artist can portray using images.
Vocabulary To Learn
- dreamscape: the view of a dream, imagined by the artist
- imagination: an idea in your head about something you have not experienced in the real-world
- text: a piece of writing
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Artists need to observe from reality to make art.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Dreams can inspire artists to create artwork, like the Surrealists. Dreamscapes use a combination of the artist's imagination, ideas from dreams and things observed in reality.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'dreamscape'
the view of a dream, imagined by the artist.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Artists need to observe from reality to make art. Correction: Remind pupils that art can be an observation, but it can also be taking an idea we have in our heads and making it into an artwork.
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