Drawing
Here's a gallery of our recent drawings:
Today Aseem, Supriya and I sat together and drew a dinosaur from the book "The Draw 50 Way" by Lee J. Ames. Aseem started drawing and got frustrated immediately. I told him that we are all learning to draw and it is frustrating in the beginning. I felt that I had to get involved. So we went thru the drawing line by line. I would draw one line, describe it a little (straight/ curved/ connecting this to that etc.) and Aseem & Supriya would copy it. It was fun and satisfying. I am going to offer a course like this next semester at our coop.
Last week Supriya started drawing circles with her new protractor and that inspired her to make them into faces. I thought it made a nice series, variations on a theme.
posted by MP at 9:04 PM
2 Comments:
You have to tell me how you did that gallery!
Have you read the Monart "Drawing With Children" book? It's the thing the $$$ Acton Art people do. I used my $$ to buy the book and the nice markers instead.
9:37 AM
Sue,
1. We use Picasa and Picasaweb for our photos. We download our photos from the camera to my laptop using Picasa. Then we upload them to Picasaweb (where we have bought 10+ GB of space, which also serves as our photo backup). Once your pictures are on Picasaweb, you can create slideshows and embed them in blogs/webpages.
Let me know if you have further questions.
2. I do have "Drawing with Children". I am using some ideas from that book and also from "Drawing on the right side of the brain" with Aseem. Their courses are really expensive (& good, from I have seen!), but I don't think Aseem wants to be a part of organized classes yet.
- manoj
10:07 AM
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