Digital landscape paintings and exhibition

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Computational Thinking and Creativity Art Challenge

Objectives

Computing

  • Select and use software on a tablet to design and create artistic content.
  • Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of ICT.
  • Evaluate and apply IT, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.

Art

  • 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.
  • Use sketch books to record observations and to review and revisit ideas.

Lesson Planning

Create your digital landscape painting for David Hockney and load it onto your own digital art space. Try launching your very own ‘tablet’ exhibition of digital art.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To create, reflect and review digital artwork, then load it onto an online art space.
  • To use a painting app to create landscape ‘paintings’.

Children will:

  • Create a landscape picture using a painting app.
  • Load artwork onto an online school digital art space.
  • Identify the aesthetic pros and cons of digital art.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Tablets and apps
  • Sketchbooks