Lesson Four – Matchstick Figures
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record how to sketch figures using simple shapes to emulate artwork by Lowry of an urban environment.
The class can explain how and why an artist added figures to their landscape scenes using different poses and positions to show their actions and thoughts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and record how to sketch figures using simple shapes to emulate artwork by Lowry of an urban environment
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe techniques that were used by Lowry when painting figures and a template (enlarge to A3) to practise sketching figures using simple shapes to emulate artwork by Lowry of an urban environment.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to sketch figures using simple shapes to emulate artwork by Lowry showing life in a town or city.
This lesson can support development in explore and replicate the painting style and techniques used by a famous British artist by creating a scene of the school playground to match artwork by L S Lowry. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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