Sketching

Sketching
 * [[image:IMG_0386.JPG width="280" height="355" caption="Year 3 pencil sketch"]] ||  || [[image:IMG_0387.JPG width="299" height="359" align="right" caption="Completed artwork"]]

The planning stage of any art lesson begins with the sketching.

  || **The pencil sketch is the basis of an art programme. Observational skills and visual information are most easily and effectively recorded with pencil drawing. A range of 2B and 6B pencils as well as charcoal can be used to enable students to get a greater range of tonal qualities. At the beginning of the year I encourage students to use a variety of lines to make the most of patterns and textures. They are also taught how to make the pencil 'whisper, talk and shout'.

__Taking the Pencil for a Walk__ Learning Intention: To encourage mastery of pencil using - correct grip - familiarization of the effects gained from the sketch pencil.

Have the children take their pencil for a walk around an A4 page to form a squiggle pattern. Using a sketch pencil encourage them to fill in the spaces with some of the list below. - thick and thin lines - wavy lines ** - spots ** - cross hatching - smudging - whispering, talking, shouting - light and dark lines. **
 *  - zig zag lines **
 *  - dots
 *  - flicks ** **- curves