Lesson One – Sketching Lines and Shapes
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise sketching different lines and shapes based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
The class can suggest and model how to use a pencil to sketch weighted lines and shading textures when drawing examples of shapes that could be used to represent different parts of the body.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise sketching different lines and shapes based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe techniques used by a significant artist when sketching different parts of the human body and a worksheet to explore how to use pencils to sketch different shapes and lines.
The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate how Leonardo da Vinci used different skills and techniques when sketching the human body as preparation for producing a full painting.
This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to develop sketching skills and techniques when drawing parts of the human body by investigating drawings and paintings produced by Leonardo da Vinci. There are teaching activities for shared learning, activity worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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