Year 6 Art Curriculum
Children will be taught various artistic techniques and will create artworks using a multitude of methods. The completed artworks will include: street art, photography, still life painting and printing. They will be taught…
 

Complementary, Primary and Tertiary Colours

  • Understand how the colour wheel works and that colours can be categorised.
  • Identify various colours within a project.
 

Christmas Card Design

  • Use mixed media such as printing and drawing techniques to create a finished piece.
  • Press-printing experimentation with multicoloured prints using the same printing plate.
 

What is Art, Exploring how Art has Changed and is Perceived with the Rise of Digitisation.

  • Challenging the idea of visual art as an important discipline within our society.
  • Explore how it art has evolved.
 

Street Art Canvas Painting

  • Look at local artists work, liaise with them and adopt their style to create individual pieces of work.
  • Work collaboratively to create a painting on canvas using large and small brushes.
 

Art and Merchandise – Printing (Royal Monarchy/Evolution)

  • Extend the printing project to another form of printing technique – collagraph combined.
  • Extend their learning of Year 4s facial expression illustrations.
  • How to create a display of a collection of interesting, printed images.
 

The Role of a Gallery

  • Portraiture related to the Project on the Monarchy.
  • Revisit the subject of portraiture from, children look at how portraiture has changed through the years.
  • How certain people are portrayed such as royalty and celebrities and a chronology of art history, a variety of styles and genres.
  • Details of facial features which will be developed from previous years.
 

Artists that Changed our Way of Thinking- The Power of Art and Global Matters Through Art

  • About an artist and style of art such as photorealism and Chuck Close.
 

Photography and Post Digital

  • Create negative images on photosensitive paper.
  • Photocopy art – natural objects
 

Dutch Art: Delftware

  • Create Delftware spoons using modelling clay.
  • Draw inspiration from Dutch artworks, create own delftware spoon and also a painting/drawing in the typical Dutch style
  • Focus on contrasting light and dark areas in a still life.
 

Still Life Painting

  • Build upon still life drawings and paintings earlier years, completing larger scale still life.
  • Look closely at choosing and arranging objects and enhancing their images through clever use of light and dark paint.