Digital Art in Year 5
 We starting the lesson comparing and contrasting the differences between producing artwork on a computer and using traditional techniques. In the first lesson we were learning about Pointillism Art and famous pointillism artists. I displayed some examples and asked the children to describe what they have in common. Then they used 2Paint in Purple Mash to create and save their very own Pointillist masterpiece. Children were also learning about Impressionism, who were the impressionists and how they painted, we used to do this the resources included in the TATE museum website. 
I encouraged each child to create their own impressionist-style painting. I also asked them to enter a title and ‘sign’ their art. To finish they had to save their work in the computers. In the last lesson I showed the children some of the work by William Morris as well as the other pieces with repeating patterns. They spent a few minutes working out what images are repeated and how they are repeated using words such as: Vertical, horizontal, parallel, diagonal, rotated, rotational, symmetry. You may wish to display these words on the whiteboard. Then I talked about William Morris and asked the children to use Google to find an example of a William Morris pattern on the computer and identify the subject matter – plants, flowers etc. – and how it is repeated. To finish I asked the children to use Purple Mash to experiment this technique and create their own patterns and save them.