Progression in drawing

Nursery

 • To explore and experiment with making marks using chalk, wax crayons, pencils, colouring pencils and felt tips.

• To use gross motor movements to create large marks- continuous rotations, push/pull, vertical arcs.

• To talk about marks and patterns created.

Reception

To explore making different marks with different resources and begin to compare lines and pastel smudges.

 To explore where chalk and pencils come from.

• To discuss marks and patterns created and begin to give reasons for their choices.

• Draw from memory and observation.

• Introduce dark and light pencils (e.g., 8B and HB)

Year One

• To explore a range of different drawing mediums to create and invent a range of lines and alter thickness using different mediums.

• To explore how famous artists use dots, lines and shapes to create works of art..

• To link a range of lines together to create a piece of artwork.

• To explore how shapes can be used to create a piece of artwork

• Add 4B to pencil range.

• Confident in using pastels and charcoal

Year  Two

• To explore lines and blending using pencils, pastels chalk and oil pastels

• Choose when to use dots or lines to show texture or patterns.

• To study and analyse landscapes using artists’ vocabulary.

• To identify backgrounds and foregrounds in a landscape.

• To study landscapes created by famous artists.

• To use secondary source images to observe and draw a landscape.

• To create objects in the foreground that appear larger than those in the background.

• Add 2H to the pencil range.