Year 4 Art & Design
End of year expectation:
Children will develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and
design. They will create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas. Children will improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including
drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]. They will develop their knowledge of great artists, architects and designers in history.
Key indicators:
EXPLORING AND DEVELOPING IDEAS
EVALUATING AND DEVELOPING WORK
 Use sketchbook to experiment, inform, plan, collect and develop ideas.
 Use language appropriate to skill and techniques.
 Be confident in working from direct observation or imagination.
 Work with confidence with tools and media.
 Work in the style of a few artists (not copying).
 Work on same end-piece over extended period of time.
 Can review work, identify changes/modifications and see how work could be further
developed.
 Discuss own and other work, expressing thoughts and feelings, and using knowledge and
understanding, e.g. Picasso, Hopper, Surrealism, Rothko, Rivera, Indian miniatures,
O’Keeffe, Abstract, Calder, Segal, Leach, Kinetic, etc.
DRAWING
PAINTING
COLLAGE
3D
PRINTMAKING
TEXTILES
 Demonstrate experience in
the complete range of
drawing media, including
computer Art programmes
and make informed choices
when/where appropriate.
 Demonstrate experience in
simple perspective.
 Demonstrate experience in
the layout of a face and
figure
 Select different techniques
for different purposes:
infilling, hatching, etc.
 Start to explore colour
mixing with colour pencils.
 Demonstrate experience in
positive/negative shapes.
 Organise their working
area, including setting out
and clearing away.
 Mix and match colour
accurately.
 Demonstrate experience in
harmonising and
complementary colours.
 Demonstrate experience in
hues and tints.
 Replicate patterns, colours
and textiles in their work.
 Demonstrate experience in
watercolour and hardedged painting and
computer work.
 Able to use ripping as a
technique for collage.
 Uses the technique of
overlaying - building up
layers on the surface/colour
mixes.
 Work safely, set out and
clear away, and secure
work
 Prepare media – wedge
clay, etc.
 Shape, form, model and
join with confidence.
 Produce more intricate
patterns/textures.
 Produce larger ware using
pinch/slab/coil techniques.
 Take into account the
properties of media being
used.
 Demonstrate experience in
making a 3-colour print.
 Demonstrate experience in
combining prints taken
from different objects to
produce an end-piece.
 Produce detailed
relief/impressed prints.
 Register images accurately.
 Demonstrate experience in
producing pictorial and
patterned prints.
•Demonstrate experience in
appliqué, etc.
• Draw with thread from
direct observation.
• Show awareness of the
different types of fabrics.
• Demonstrate experience in
looking at fabrics from
other countries: Adire,
Batik, Tie Dye.