Year 2 Art & Design
End of year expectation:
Children will be able to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. They will use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and
imagination. Children will develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. They will know about the work of a range of
artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
Key indicators:
EXPLORING AND DEVELOPING IDEAS
EVALUATING AND DEVELOPING WORK
 Able to explore their own ideas, working from direct observation and imagination.
 Communicates their own ideas and meanings through a range of materials and processes.
 Starting to identify the different forms art takes: books, pictures, wallpaper, fabrics, etc.
 Use language appropriate to tasks and media and develop a supporting sketch book technique.
DRAWING
PAINTING
COLLAGE
 Control a pencil
 Produce a growing range of
patterns and textures with a
pencil.
 Develop a range of tones using
a single pencil.
 Use a range of drawing media
in different ways: hatching,
scribble, stippling, blending.
 Solidly infill shapes using
colour pencils and pastels.
 Work in different ways and on
a variety of different coloured
and shaped papers.
 Mix a widening range of
secondary colours, moving
towards predicting resulting
colours.
 Work in paint of different
consistencies.
 Darken/lighten without using
black and white.
 Demonstrate experience in the
breadth of the main colour
spectrums: red, yellow, blue,
green, purple, orange.
 Start to explore the
relationships between colour,
moods and feelings.
 Demonstrate experience in
colour matching, replicating
patterns and textures around
them.
 Use the brush to create a wide
range of marks in their work.
 Demonstrate experience in
painting shapes and infilling
using an art computer
package.
 Able to cut a variety of shapes
to complete a composition.
 Able to investigate texture
with paper e.g. scrunching and
screwing paper up to create a
composition.
 Collect and organise different
types and textures of fabric
and materials for collage.
 Can comment on differences in the work of others.
 Able to suggest ways of improving their own work.
 Able to use language appropriate to tasks and media.
 Look at and talk about their own work and that of other artists and the techniques they used, e.g. Van
Gogh, Seurat, Klimt, Marc, Klee.
3D
PRINTMAKING
TEXTILES
 Use equipment safely and in
the correct way.
 Join with confidence.
 Experience a widening range
of decorative techniques:
impressed, painted, applied.
 Use pinch, coil and slab
techniques to produce end
pieces.
 Construct from found or junk
materials.
 Use simple tools for shaping,
mark making, etc.
 Have some experience at
replicating patterns and
textures in a 3D form.
 Demonstrate experience at
simple soap carving.
 Work with a range of media:
PlayDoh, Modroc, papiermache.
 Able to look and discuss own
work and that of other
sculptors. (Moore, African,
Native American).
 Create patterns and pictures
by printing from objects using
more than one colour.
 Develop impressed images
with some detail.
 Have some experience in relief
printing: string, card.
 Use equipment and media
correctly and be able to
produce a clean printed image.
 Use more than one type of
stitch, can thread needle, etc.
 Begin to identify different
forms of textiles: clothes,
furnishings.
 Have some experience of
weaving and understand the
process and techniques.
 Have some experience of
colouring textiles: batik, tie
dye, printing.