Art & Design
104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.
Early Years
- Making marks
- Colours and mixing
- Printing and pattern
- Making things with my hands
- Big lines and little lines
- Looking closely and drawing
- Textures and collage
- Shapes in a picture
- Weaving with paper strips
- Art with things from nature
- Painting with a brush
- Printing with your hand
- Drawing animals I know
- Looking at a picture together
- Colours and feelings
- Drawing from your imagination
Key Stage 1
- Line and shape
- Painting and colour mixing
- Texture and collage
- Looking at artists
- Making shapes with clay
- Patterns from around the world
- Making things in three dimensions
- Using a viewfinder to choose a view
- Drawing a story in three pictures
- Printing with everyday objects
- Making a model from junk materials
- Primary and secondary colours
- Drawing with different tools
- Symmetry and pattern with mirrors
- Why artists choose their materials
- Same subject, different artists
Key Stage 2
- Sketchbooks and observation
- Tone, light and form
- Pattern, geometry and Islamic art
- Great artists, architects and designers
- Sculpture and three-dimensional work
- Colour: mixing and relationships
- Line and mark-making
- Painting: brushes, washes and layers
- Printmaking: repeat and relief
- Perspective and space in a drawing
- Collage and mixed media
- Composition: arranging a picture
- Using a viewfinder to choose what to draw
- Proportion: measuring with your pencil
- Constructing with paper: tabs, scores and folds
- Monoprinting: a print you can only make once
- Visiting a gallery: looking with purpose
- Symmetry and radial design
- Relief sculpture: between flat and full 3D
- Negative space drawing
- Choosing a printing object for its mark
- Peer feedback: giving useful comments on art
- Recording from memory versus from life
- Portraiture across history
- Painting with a limited palette
- Photomontage: combining photographs
- Comparing two artworks on the same theme
- Scaling a drawing up using a grid
- Public art and murals
- Drawing hands and feet
- Texture in paint: impasto and scumbling
- Assemblage: building with found objects
Key Stage 3
- Perspective and composition
- Materials and processes
- Analysing a work
- Design thinking and typography
- Colour theory in practice
- Drawing from observation
- Art movements and why styles change
- Photography and the composed image
- Developing a personal project
- Printmaking: lino, mono and relief
- Reading a sculpture: form in three dimensions
- Comparing two artworks on the same subject
- Symbols and hidden meaning in art
- Analysing a photograph
- Reading a building: analysing architecture
- Observational drawing: a still life set-up
- Recording texture and surface
- Using thumbnail sketches to plan a composition
- Drawing from memory and imagination
- Renaissance art and its innovations
- Art Nouveau and Art Deco
- Non-Western art traditions: an introduction
- Street art and public art
- The history of photography as an art form
GCSE
- Contextual studies: researching an artist properly
- Printmaking at GCSE
- Annotation that earns marks
- Working in three dimensions
- The four assessment objectives
- Building a portfolio
- Personal response, and choosing what to make work about
- Presenting work and the exam
- Working from a starting point
- Refining and resolving a final piece
- Digital and photographic processes in a portfolio
- Surface pattern and textile design processes
- Observational recording and insight
- Documenting material experiments for GCSE
- Painting technique at GCSE
- Drawing and mark-making at GCSE
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