Blind contour

Revisit elements of shape and tone and texture

Self portrait at the beginning of each year

• Pencil
• Charcoal
• Pastels
• Chalk
• Crayons
• Ink

• Poster paints
• Watercolours
• Pastels

Prior knowledge (from KS1):

Correctly hold a drawing tool

Begin to control the types of marks made

Tone

• Investigate tone by drawing light and dark lines, light and dark patterns, light and dark shapes using a pencil
• Understand tone through the use of different grades of pencil

Shape and Texture

• Experiment with the five basic elements of shape: dots, circles, straight lines, curved lines, angled lines
• Experiment with texture to create tone using stippling, hatching, cross-hatching, contour lines and scumbling
• Understand and experiment with the use of line patterns to create tone

Perspective

• Develop knowledge of how a vanishing point conveys perspective
• Use still life paintings and sketches of landscapes to explore how perspective is created.
• Draw an image using a single focal point

Proportion

• Develop an understanding of proportion by studying the image of a face, taking note of the size and position of facial features in relation to each other.
• Explore proportion of face and body

• Correctly hold and use a range of painting tools and brushes
• Explore the effects that can be made with different painting tools

Colour wheel

• Introduce the colour wheel to explore how primary colours can be mixed to make secondary colours.
• Explore creation of tertiary colours by mixing equal amounts of primary and secondary colours together.
• Explore warm and cold colours using everyday understanding of the world.
• Use the colour wheel to identify and use Complementary colours to create contrast
• Analogous colours
• Monochromatic colours