The national curriculum for art and design aims to ensure that all pupils:

• produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
• become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
• evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
• know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.

Key stage 1

Pupils should be taught:

• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
• about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

Key stage 2

Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.

Pupils should be taught:

• to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
• to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
• about great artists, architects and designers in history.

Year 1

Landscapes

Famous Artist Study – David Hockney

*Name all the colours

* Mixing of colours

*Find collections of colour

* Applying colour with a range of tools

*Awareness and discussion of patterns

* Repeating patterns

* Symmetry

Year 2

Landscapes

Famous Artist Study – Henri Rousseau

* Begin to describe colours by objects

* Make as many tones of one colour as possible (using white)

* Darken colours without using black

* Using colour on a large scale

Year 3

Landscapes

Printing Andy Warhol landscapes

* Colour mixing

* Make colour wheels

* Introduce different types of brushes

* Techniques- apply colour using dotting, scratching, splashing  Discuss work of other artists

* Pattern in the environment

* Make patterns on a range of surfaces

* Symmetry

Year 4

Landscapes

Famous Artist Study – Claude Monet

* Colour mixing and matching; tint, tone, shade

* Observe colours

* Suitable equipment for the task

*Colour to reflect mood

*Discuss own work and that of other artists

Year 5

Landscapes

Famous Artist Study – Thomas Gainsborough

* Hue, tint, tone, shades and mood

* Explore the use of texture in colour

* Colour for purposes

*Discuss and evaluate own work and that of other artists

Year 6

Landscapes

Famous Artist Study – Charles Fazzino

* Hue, tint, tone, shades and mood

* Explore the use of texture in colour

* Colour for purposes

* Colour to express feelings

*Discuss and evaluate own work and that of other artists