Knowledge and skills:

During Year 1 & Year 2 the children learn to:

• show how people feel in paintings and drawings;

• create moods in art work;

• use pencils to create line of different thickness in drawings;

• name the primary and secondary colours;

• create a repeating pattern in print;

• cut, roll and coil materials;

• use IT to create a picture;

• describe what I can see and give an opinion about the work of an artist;

• ask questions about a piece of art.

• choose and use three different grades of pencil when drawing;
• use charcoal, pencil and pastel to create art;
• use a viewfinder to focus on a specific part of an artefact before drawing it;
• mix paint to create all of the secondary colours;
• create brown with paint;
• create tints with paint by adding white;
• create tones with paint by adding black;
• create a printed piece of art by pressing, rolling, rubbing and stamping;
• make a clay pot;
• join two clay finger pots together;
• use different effects within an IT paint package;
• suggest how artists have used colour, pattern and shape.