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.