Developing images using repeating patterns
In this unit pupils learn to develop visual ideas and to realise these ideas using ICT. Pupils will need to use a computer graphics package to explore and experiment with ideas and will amend and modify their work to meet specific outcomes. They also learn to save their work as they go along. They learn to use ICT tools appropriately and will select areas of an image to cut, copy and change. They learn to export their work to other packages and import images from sources such as clip art, scanner or digital camera. Pupils will apply what they have learnt in this unit when using ICT to produce pictures, plans and maps in art, design and technology, and geography.

Use this site to find paintings of selected artists such as Escher's 'Sun and Moon'. This painting uses repeated patterns, but in the tessellating style which is the trademark of M. C. Escher. This has been a previous 'site of the week'.

This site contains small imges of paintings by a variety of artists and also classifies them by styles, such as Abstract, Asian, Dance, Floral, Still Life etc.