Author: Amanda McGarrigle

Art—Term 4
Pattern and landscapes.

Background Information
The children began their work on landscape pictures last term—adding texture to their pictures. We will now be moving on to using brush strokes and patterns to show the movement of the natural landscape. This will be extended to pictures and paintings that depict the sea and the movement of the sea (The Snail and the Whale) and of Africa (One Day on this Blue Planet in the Savannah).
Ando Hiroshige is our focus artist.

In this unit the children will…
Look at the focus artist Ando Hiroshige—a Japanese artist who painted landscapes that showed the movement of the captured image. Discuss how he has created the effects through brush stroke—children to explore this with pencil lines then painting.
Look at how aspects of the land move—spend time outside looking at the land around us and how we can show this in our work—relating to our focus artist.
Develop their ideas with paintings of landscape and then the sea—how does the sea move? What is moving it?

By the end of this unit….
All children can:
To understand who the focus artist Ando Hiroshige is and how he painted landscapes.
To be able to look at how land can move and begin to consider how this can be shown in a picture.
To be able to draft and then produce a landscape picture—showing the movement of grass and trees.
To be able to explore how the sea moves and how this can be shown in a landscape picture.
Most children will:
To be able to explore different ways of showing movement in a picture— brush strokes.
Some children will:

Cross curricular activities:
The snail and the whale—looking at the snails journey and the sea. Thinking about how the sea moves and why the sea moves. Look at videos of the sea and waves.
One Day on this Blue Planet—the savanah. Using the images and ideas from the text to explore Africa and the landscape there—How will it differ from the landscape here in the UK?

Key Vocabulary
Movement, Form, shape, stroke, flow, space, place, choice, draft, re-draw.