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    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.