This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to develop sketching skills and techniques when drawing parts of the body by investigating drawings and paintings produced by Leonardo da Vinci. The class can practise using weighted lines and shaded textures to represent parts of the body.

Develop sketching skills and techniques when drawing parts of the human body by investigating drawings and paintings produced by Leonardo da Vinci

Lesson One : Sketching Lines and Shapes

Practise sketching different lines and shapes based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci

Lesson Two : Sketching Light and Shade

Experiment using different ways to represent light falling across an object when sketching pictures of the body

Lesson Three : Sketching Proportion

Practise drawing faces using the correct proportions for each of the different features such as the eyes, nose and mouth

Lesson Four : Anatomical Drawings

Select and copy examples of drawings by a significant artist showing different parts of the body using a range of drawing and sketching skills

Lesson Five : Body Parts

Use sketching skills and techniques to draw different parts of the human body to represent the artwork style of Leonardo da Vinci

Lesson Six : Human Body

Use sketching skills and techniques to draw and label a picture of the human body representing the artwork style of Leonardo da Vinci

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