Drawing: I need space
This unit focuses on understanding retrofuturism, developing skills in evaluating images and creating art through various drawing processes, including collagraph printmaking. It emphasises the development of pupils' independent artistic skills and their ability to generate, test, and refine ideas in their sketchbooks, leading to a final piece of artwork. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.
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Drawing: I need space
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand and explain what retrofuturism is.
- Participate in discussions and offer ideas.
- Evaluate images using simple responses, sometimes using formal elements to extend ideas.
- Provide plausible suggestions for how a piece was created.
- Comfortably use different stimuli to draw from.
- Use past knowledge and experience to explore a range of drawing processes.
- Select and place textures to create a collagraph plate, applying an understanding of the material, which may be supported by testing.
- Create a selection of drawings and visual notes that demonstrate their ideas using sketchbooks.
- Generate a clear composition idea for a final piece that shows how it will be drawn.
- Apply confident skills to make an effective collagraph print.
- Independently select tools and drawing techniques, with some guidance.
- Demonstrate growing independence, discussing ways to improve work.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Power prints
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Lesson 1: Space imagery
- To explore the purpose and effect of imagery.
Lesson 2: Drawing decisions
- To understand and explore decision making in creative processes.
Lesson 3: Teis Albers
- To develop drawn ideas through printmaking.
Lesson 4: A vision of the future
- To test and develop ideas using sketchbooks.
Lesson 5: Revisiting ideas
- To apply an understanding of drawing processes to revisit and improve ideas.
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