ICT at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 2)

• Show the class examples of pictures created by older children using ICT, including print outs and images on screen. Discuss some of the features of the pictures and discuss how they are different from pictures produced using traditional methods.

• Look at and discuss examples of bold woodcuts, which are often used to illustrate children's books. Ask the class to consider how and why they might be effective for their purpose.
• Demonstrate how to select the brush and pen tools and how they can create different lines and textures. Show how the 'undo' command can fix a mistake or a mark that does not work.
• Ask the children to create their own 'woodcuts'. Ask the class to compare their work with work created using traditional methods. Also get them to discuss the effectiveness of their work in relation to their purpose.

• Show the class 'Yellow Islands' by Jackson Pollock. Discuss the rhythmic pattern created by the flowing black lines. Ask the children what colours other than black stand out and why they think the painting is called 'Yellow Islands'.
• Demonstrate how a black line can be taken for a 'walk' around the screen. Compare the effects created by flowing lines and angular lines. Show the children how to choose and use the flood fill tool to make coloured 'islands' within a picture.
• Ask the children to use the pen and flood fill tool to create lines and colours to express themes such as 'headlights in the city'. Alternatively, children could provide their own titles which convey how they have used lines and colours.
• Show the children how to save work using 'save as'.

• Show the class some examples of the work of Mondrian and identify the main features - horizontal and vertical lines, primary colours and white space.
• Demonstrate the use of the straight line and geometric shapes tools. Show how colours can be used to fill the shapes.
• Ask the children to create pictures in the style of Mondrian using the straight line and rectangle-drawing tools. Ask them to experiment with colour using the flood fill tool. They could create warm colour pictures, cool colour pictures and pictures in which one colour is made to stand out from the others. Display the work and discuss the results.

• Discuss the differences between light and colour when viewed on screen and in print, using two examples of the same picture. Introduce the idea of 'painting with light'. Demonstrate how to use the spray tool to select colours and patterns.
• Ask the children to create pictures of night scenes, eg Guy Fawkes night or Diwali. Ask them to use the flood fill tool to create a black screen and then to use mark making tools and various colours to explore the quality of light and colour on the screen.

• Collect portraits that have a strong emotional element. Discuss the ways that feelings, like anger, sadness, fear and joy, can be represented visually and illustrate how artists use line, colour, shape and texture to create effects from the examples collected.
• Ask the children to use portraits from their sketchbooks, or photographs, as a starting point for their own portraits. Encourage children to use a range of techniques learnt in previous sessions.