Drawing
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Dan China
www.danchina,net
Drawing is lines and likeness?
DRAWING
• PERCEPTION: assists ordering of feelings,
ideas, thoughts
• COMMUNICATION: assists process of
making feelings, ideas, thoughts available to
others
• INVENTION: assists creative thinking
• ACTION: helps put ideas into action.
Ideas from the Campaign for Drawing
Action: draw in a group
Perception
draw shadows
Communication:, draw with a friend
Cut it out
Perception: using new technologies
Action: make an installation
Drawing:
• Is about children developing skills of
perception, invention and communication?
• supports children’s memory, observation and
imagination?
• develops children’s ability to experiment,
practise skills and apply learning?
Invention: Make a drawing machine
Invention: Drawing to experiment.
Making use of experience
In our teaching do we:
• stimulate children’s imagination through
experience of people, objects, places,
activities, stories, sounds and smells?
• provide different examples of drawing,
such as illustrations, magazines, posters,
cartoons and animations?
Winslow
Winslow
Questions for us
Does the learning environment provide:
• displays of drawings by children, as well as by
adults?
• examples of drawing as diagrams, maps, plans
and illustrations?
• explanatory and informative displays to support
drawing for learning?
Communication: Remember the illustrated children’s books we read,
both as children ourselves and which we read to our own children.
http://brianwildsmith.com/bw.index.html
Invention, communication and action - make a presentation
Communication: Drawing to explain stuff
Communication - drawing to share experience and feelings
Draw and talk about it
Invention: drawing as a diagram. Drawing as communication.
Questions for us
Do we provide:
• inspiration, curiosity and provocation?
• a practical base for drawing?
• well maintained and managed materials?
• an appropriate range of wet and dry materials?
An appropriate range of wet and dry materials: Draw with a brush
Draw together: inspiration and provocation.
A practical base and well maintained materials
Curiostity: raw and talk about it
Teacher modelling
KS1 children show close looking and
real technical skill in building up tone,
colour and texture.
Drawing to develop and apply skills
Action: mark making – making deliberate, and knowing ,marks
You can use a rubber to draw with
Doing warm up exercises on the page
Smudging these out and then drawing
on top is liberating.
Giving black paper and chalks
forces Anastasia to explore tone
in a new way.
Drawing for memory.
Sometimes its really worth going large
Perception: drawing to
support ordering of
memory and observation.
Can use text and coffee.
A little colour wash goes a long way
Drawing quickly and with a pen releases inhibition, lines are loose and expressive
Very quick figure studies, no detail just contrast of tone and shape
Collage and varnish
iPad drawing
Drawing to work things out
iPad drawing
Drawing to work out an animation.
iPad drawing
iPad drawing
iPad drawing
iPad drawing
Drawing
• Needs to be valued in all its forms
• Has many different purposes
• Teachers need to know the ‘what’ and ‘why’ if
they are to support the ‘how’.
• There are many, many, examples to be shared
with children.
• It needs attention, time and practice.
• It is important across the curriculum.
• It is about Thinking, Expression, Action
Drawing
• PERCEPTION: assists ordering of feelings,
ideas, thoughts
• COMMUNICATION: assists process of
making feelings, ideas, thoughts available to
others
• INVENTION: assists creative thinking
• ACTION: helps put ideas into action.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Eileen Adams and the Campaign for Drawing for
both inspiration and some of these photographs.