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    Year 4 Art Curriculum
    Children will be taught various artistic techniques and will create artworks using a multitude of methods. The completed artworks will include: paper cutting, typography, character illustrations and portrait drawings. They will be taught…
     

    Typography

    • Digital and traditional methods combine to create an image.
    • Transferrable skills such as copying, pasting, photography, eliminating background (masking) and resizing images.
     

    Character Illustrations

    • Through guided and free drawing and inspiration from eminent illustrators, children understand how to express emotions by manipulating expressions on an illustration. This is facial and figurative.
     

    Paper Cutting

    • Progressing from cutting sessions in Y1, 2, 3 class create larger, more intricately detailed cutting art with the possibility of cutting detail using a scalpel.
    • Interpret stories, music, poems and other stimuli and represent these using mixed media element
    • Cut a simple stencil and use this for making printed shapes
    • Can use a visual journal/ sketchbook to support the development of a design over several stages
     

    Portraiture – Drawing/Paint/Photography

    • Explore a variety of portrait artists who use a variety of media.
    • Explore the relationship between photography and painting in a digitally synthesised approach.
    • Create a painting from designs and research to communicate an idea or emotion and understanding how photographic portraiture can convey emotion.
    • To mix and use primary and secondary colours with the addition of black and white and other hues
     

    Impressionism

    • How the application of paint such as directional brushstrokes, colour and composition can be manipulated to convey feeling within a painting instead of photorealism.
    • Mixing primary and secondary colours to alter hue and tone.
     

    Animals

    • Explore the world of wildlife, children research interesting endemic species of animals.
    • Explore the internet, note-taking, copying imagery, drawing in sketchbooks.
     

    Kingfisher Project

    • Take part in an open project collaborative or independent which experiments with a choice of media, research and outcome.
    • Convey an idea related to local species of wildlife and to be presented.