Painting & mixed media: Portraits

This unit offers pupils opportunities to develop skills in creating interesting portrait drawings using words, experimenting with materials and techniques, and constructing self-portraits that represent aspects of themselves. This comprehensive unit enhances their understanding and application of art vocabulary and encourages thoughtful decisions in their artwork composition. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.

Lessons

Lesson 1: Poem portrait

  • To explore how a drawing can be developed.

Lesson 2: Developing drawings

  • To combine materials for effect.

Lesson 3: Self-portraits

  • To identify the features of self-portraits.

Lesson 4: Changing faces

  • To develop ideas towards an outcome by experimenting with materials and techniques.

Lesson 5: Mixed-media portraits

  • To apply knowledge and skills to create a mixed media self-portrait.

Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Key knowledge

Formal elements:

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Key vocabulary

art medium

atmosphere

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Knowledge organiser: Art & design – Y5 Painting and mixed-media

Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts, techniques and definitions from the unit.

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Vocabulary display: Portraits

A display version of the key vocabulary from the Portraits unit.

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