Key stage 3- Year 7

Topic- Natural world, Insects

Skills taught-

  • Identifying primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

  • Knowledge of how to find complementary and analogous colours on the colour wheel, and what effects these create.

  • Enlarging a design and creating an eye-catching composition.

  • Blending colours using pastels, applying the knowledge of colour theory, by using complementary and analogous colours.

  • Peer assessment- working with one another, to identify the strengths in work, and areas for improvement.

  • Using literacy to envision, by reading about artwork, and drawing the artwork.


Key stage 3- Year 8

Topic- Still life

Artist influence- Roy Lichtenstein and Michael Craig-Martin

Stills taught

  • Drawing from observation, identifying primary and secondary sources.

  • Creating an artist’s research page.

  • Designing an interesting composition, designing thumbnails, and annotating these.

  • Identifying the characteristics of the artists’ work, using these in own work.