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The Local Canvas

Teesside Art Studio Suite · Trinity Arts Award Explore

Progress SoW · Arts Aut 1 · 2026–27 · BUILD · Week 1🎨 Explore Part A · Take Part

Enquiry: How can line, shape, tone and colour transform the way we see a familiar place?

Success looks like

I can record what I notice in my local area
I can choose materials or images that say 'Teesside' to me
I can explain one choice I made

Aspire · GROW reach: pair two finds that CONTRAST — and say what the contrast shows.

Teacher Print Tools — Week 1

Retrieval Quiz

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. Look (Recall)

Name one thing you pass every day that's made of metal.

Any — bridge, railings, lamp post, shutters.

2. Lines (Recall)

Draw in the air: a straight line, a wavy line.

Done — lines have characters.

3. Tools (Recall)

Name one drawing tool.

Pencil, fine-liner, charcoal, chalk…

4. Colour (Recall)

What colour is rust?

Orange-brown.

1. Elements (Recall)

Name two of the formal elements of art.

Line, shape, tone, colour, texture, form, pattern.

2. Local (Think)

What shapes would you see looking at the Transporter Bridge?

Triangles, crosses, a long horizontal — girder geometry.

3. Tone (Recall)

What does 'tone' mean in art?

How light or dark something is.

4. Notice (Think)

Why do artists sketch the same place more than once?

Each pass notices more — looking is a skill.

1. Elements (Recall)

Name four formal elements.

Line, shape, tone, colour, texture, form, pattern, space.

2. Transform (Think)

How could TONE alone change the mood of a bridge drawing?

Heavy darks = drama/weight; light greys = calm/distance.

3. Vocabulary (Recall)

What's the difference between shape and form?

Shape is 2D; form suggests 3D.

4. Local (Think)

Name a Teesside surface with strong TEXTURE.

Rusted steel, brick, weathered concrete, riverside mud.

Starter

Starter: Your Street Is Already a Drawing

Key Question: You walked past a hundred artworks on the way here — girders, shutters, rust stains, brick patterns. Which did you actually SEE?

🌉

Girder Geometry

Triangles marching across the Tees

LINE + SHAPE

🧱

Brick Rhythm

The same shape, thousands of times

PATTERN

🟠

Rust Blooms

Orange eating through grey

COLOUR + TEXTURE

🌫️

River Light

Grey water, silver sky

TONE

Pairs: which card is closest to something on YOUR street? 30 seconds each.

I Do

I Do: The Formal Elements, Teesside Edition

Key Idea: The formal elements — line, shape, tone, colour, texture — are the artist's alphabet. Today we learn to read our own town with them.

👀 Look: your patch IS the canvas — the bridge, the hills, the works, all subject matter.

Step 0 of 4

Line

Watch me draw the bridge's top chord: one confident line, drawn slowly. Line quality = the line's character — hesitant, bold, broken, flowing.

Shape

Now I block the triangles between girders. I'm not drawing 'a bridge' — I'm drawing the shapes light makes through it.

Tone

Three greys only: sky lightest, water middle, steel darkest. Squint — tone is easier to see with your eyes half shut.

Texture

Rust: I stipple with the pencil edge, never scribble. The mark IMITATES the surface it describes.

We Do

We Do: Tap the Element

How it works: Tap each Teesside photo card to reveal which element does the heavy lifting — and the mark that captures it. Found: 0/6

🌉 Girder close-up

🧱 Brick wall

🟠 Rust patch

🌊 The Tees at dusk

🏪 Shop shutter

🏗️ Dock crane

I Do

I Do: From Noticing to Recording

Key Idea: A sketchbook page isn't a masterpiece — it's evidence of looking. Date it, label it, note what you'd try next.

Step 0 of 3

The honest page

Watch me lay out today's page: title, date, six small boxes — one element experiment per box. Small boxes remove the fear.

Label as you go

Under each experiment: the element + the tool. 'Rust — stipple, 4B.' Labels turn practice into Part A evidence.

The next-time note

Bottom corner: one sentence — 'Next time I'd press lighter on the brick pattern.' That sentence is reflection, and reflection is marks.

We Do

We Do: Match the Element → Its Job

Step 1: Tap a card, then its partner. Step 2: Watch the WAGOLL write itself. Score: 0/6

✏️ LINE

🔶 SHAPE

🌑 TONE

🎨 COLOUR

🧶 TEXTURE

🔳 PATTERN

Repetition with rhythm

Temperature and feeling

How a surface would feel

The edge and energy of things

Light and dark — the mood-maker

Flat areas the eye reads first

✏️ Line quality🔳 Pattern🧶 Texture🌑 Tone

Independent Work

Independent Work — Studio Time

Instructions: Work at your level. Evidence photos go in your Arts Award portfolio — photos of your mark-making sheet + one sentence saying what you tried (Part A: take part).

Supported

Task: Six-box element sheet: fill 4 of the 6 boxes using the photo cards and the mark guide.

Steps: One element per box · label element + tool · tick your best box.

Standard

Task: Fill all 6 boxes from the photo cards, labelled, plus the next-time sentence.

Steps: All six elements · labels as you go · one honest next-time note.

Stretch

Task: Six boxes from DIRECT observation (window/courtyard), labelled, plus a 3-tone thumbnail of one view.

Steps: Observe, don't copy cards · full labels · squint for the thumbnail's three values.

Lundy Loop

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in the Studio

Why: Article 12 — your view on this work counts, and it changes what the studio does next.

🚪 SPACE

The Local Canvas wall is open — pin any page, any standard; unpinning your own work is also allowed.

📣 VOICE

One sentence to the room or the board: the Teesside surface YOU think deserves drawing next.

👥 AUDIENCE

Pages go on the studio wall where next lesson's class reads them for ideas.

⭐ INFLUENCE

Class vote picks the surface Week 3's Skills Lab builds a whole lesson around.

Exit Ticket

Instructions: Answer independently. No sketchbooks.

1.

Name two formal elements you used today.

Any two: line, shape, tone, colour, texture, pattern.

2.

Which mark makes rust: scribble or stipple?

Stipple.

3.

What goes under every sketchbook experiment?

A label — element + tool.

1.

Why do we squint to see tone?

Detail drops away; values group into readable masses.

2.

What makes a repeated pattern feel alive?

Small variations — no photocopy bricks.

3.

What's the next-time note for?

Reflection — it's Part A evidence of learning.

1.

Shape vs form — one line.

Shape is flat; form suggests 3D.

2.

Why draw the negative spaces of the crane?

The gaps are simpler and more accurate than the beams.

3.

Which element carries the MOOD of your page, and how?

Usually tone — contrast = drama, close values = calm; own answer defended.

Knowledge Organiser (BUILD W1): The Local Canvas

Teesside Art Studio Suite · Trinity Arts Award Explore · Explore Part A · Take Part

Key Word	Definition
Formal elements	Line, shape, tone, colour, texture, form, pattern
Line quality	The character of a drawn line
Tone	How light or dark something is
Texture	How a surface would feel, shown in marks
Pattern	Repetition with rhythm and variation
Observation	Drawing from real looking, not memory

Key Facts

The Transporter Bridge (1911) is a giant lesson in line and shape.
Rust is a colour study Teesside provides for free.
Arts Award Explore Part A = evidence of taking part — labelled pages count.
Squinting is a professional technique, not cheating.

The Local Canvas

Name: ____________________ Class: __________ Date:

This week's enquiry

How can line, shape, tone and colour transform the way we see a familiar place?

Arts Award evidence

photos of your mark-making sheet + one sentence saying what you tried (Part A: take part).

Arrival Task

1) Name one thing you pass every day that's made of metal.

2) Draw in the air: a straight line, a wavy line.

3) Name one drawing tool.

4) What colour is rust?

1) Name two of the formal elements of art.

2) What shapes would you see looking at the Transporter Bridge?

3) What does 'tone' mean in art?

4) Why do artists sketch the same place more than once?

1) Name four formal elements.

2) How could TONE alone change the mood of a bridge drawing?

3) What's the difference between shape and form?

4) Name a Teesside surface with strong TEXTURE.

Starter: Your Street Is Already a Drawing

Key Question: You walked past a hundred artworks on the way here — girders, shutters, rust stains, brick patterns. Which did you actually SEE?

We Do 1: We Do: Tap the Element

🌉 Girder close-up, 🧱 Brick wall, 🟠 Rust patch, 🌊 The Tees at dusk, 🏪 Shop shutter, 🏗️ Dock crane

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Element → Its Job

Draw lines to match:

✏️ LINE · 🔶 SHAPE · 🌑 TONE · 🎨 COLOUR · 🧶 TEXTURE · 🔳 PATTERN

Repetition with rhythm · Temperature and feeling · How a surface would feel · The edge and energy of things · Light and dark — the mood-maker · Flat areas the eye reads first

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

line, shape, tone, colour, texture, pattern, stipple, label

Sentence Starters

"This box shows…" | "I used a ___ to make…" | "My best box is… because…"

Scaffolding – Standard

Page Structure

Layout: title + date + six boxes. Each box: element + tool label. Finish: next-time sentence.

Mark guide

rust = stipple · brick = repeat with variation · water = three flat tones · steel = slow confident line

Scaffolding – Stretch

Observation frames

"From direct observation I noticed ___ which the photo hides" | "My three values are ___/___/___" | "The negative spaces read as ___"

Independent Work – Supported

Element Sheet (4 boxes)

Box 1 element/tool: ________ / ________

Box 2: ________ / ________

My best box is ____ because:

Independent Work – Standard

Element Sheet (6 boxes)

Elements used (tick): □ line □ shape □ tone □ colour □ texture □ pattern

Labels written under every box? □

Next time I would:

Independent Work – Stretch

Observation Sheet

My observed view: ____________________

Six boxes + labels complete □ 3-tone thumbnail complete □

What direct observation showed that the photos hide:

Exit Ticket – Supported

1) Name two formal elements you used today.

2) Which mark makes rust: scribble or stipple?

3) What goes under every sketchbook experiment?

Exit Ticket – Standard

1) Why do we squint to see tone?

2) What makes a repeated pattern feel alive?

3) What's the next-time note for?

Exit Ticket – Stretch

1) Shape vs form — one line.

2) Why draw the negative spaces of the crane?

3) Which element carries the MOOD of your page, and how?

Lundy Loop — this lesson

Space → Voice → Audience → Influence. The adult’s first job is Space: regulate before you educate.

Space	The Local Canvas wall is open — pin any page, any standard; unpinning your own work is also allowed.
Voice	One sentence to the room or the board: the Teesside surface YOU think deserves drawing next.
Audience	Pages go on the studio wall where next lesson's class reads them for ideas.
Influence	Class vote picks the surface Week 3's Skills Lab builds a whole lesson around.

Closing the loop: out loud, as a class, is enough here. Any inclusion counts — a nod, a word, a pointed finger. If a pupil wants theirs written down, an adult scribes it in their words. Pass is always allowed.

The Local Canvas — Feedback Sheet

Keep with your sketchbook / portfolio.

Pupil name:	Date:
WWW (What Went Well):
EBI (Even Better If):
Level worked at: Supported / Standard / Stretch	Arts Award evidence filed: Yes / Not yet
Authorship — what I chose or decided myself:
Support given — prepared / scribed / modelled / hand-over-hand:
Pupil response — my next step: Ring this yourself — an adult may write your words if you ask.
How I answered it — ring one:👉pointed🗣said it✋showed🖼picture🔁tried again🎬filmedNothing yet is a real answer — leave it blank. Pass is always allowed.Filmed or photographed: work, not faces, unless consent is filed.R — adult initials that they received it: ____________

The Local Canvas

Success looks like

Teacher Print Tools — Week 1

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. Look (Recall)

2. Lines (Recall)

3. Tools (Recall)

4. Colour (Recall)

1. Elements (Recall)

2. Local (Think)

3. Tone (Recall)

4. Notice (Think)

1. Elements (Recall)

2. Transform (Think)

3. Vocabulary (Recall)

4. Local (Think)

Starter: Your Street Is Already a Drawing

Girder Geometry

Brick Rhythm

Rust Blooms

River Light

I Do: The Formal Elements, Teesside Edition

Line

Shape

Tone

Texture

We Do: Tap the Element

I Do: From Noticing to Recording

The honest page

Label as you go

The next-time note

We Do: Match the Element → Its Job

Independent Work — Studio Time

Supported

Standard

Stretch

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in the Studio

🚪 SPACE

📣 VOICE

👥 AUDIENCE

⭐ INFLUENCE

Exit Ticket

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The Local Canvas — complete!

Pens down — quick partner check!

Knowledge Organiser (BUILD W1): The Local Canvas

Key Facts

The Local Canvas

This week's enquiry

Arts Award evidence

Arrival Task

Starter: Your Street Is Already a Drawing

We Do 1: We Do: Tap the Element

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Element → Its Job

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

Sentence Starters

Scaffolding – Standard

Page Structure

Mark guide

Scaffolding – Stretch

Observation frames

Independent Work – Supported

Independent Work – Standard

Independent Work – Stretch

Exit Ticket – Supported

Exit Ticket – Standard

Exit Ticket – Stretch

Lundy Loop — this lesson

The Local Canvas — Feedback Sheet