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.