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Drawing

Dan China

www.danchina,net

PS This presentation, more materials and links on website.

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.

Action: draw in a group

Ideas from the Campaign for Drawing

Perceptiondraw 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 pageSmudging these out and then drawing on top is liberating.

Giving black paper and chalksforces Anastasia to explore tonein a new way.

Drawing for memory.

Sometimes its really worth going large

Sometimes very, very, small works

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 out an animation.iPad drawing

Drawing to work things out

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.

PS The new curriculum gives us the freedom to enjoy art.

AcknowledgementsThanks to Eileen Adams and the Campaign for Drawing for both inspiration and some of these photographs.