See Three Shapes
By Paula Briggs
In the AccessArt Art Club for ages 6 to 10 this week, we explored drawing shapes for outline, shadow and shade and working with inks to create strong, graphic images. I devised this simple exercise to help the children appreciate how seeing simple shapes can help them in their drawing, and how one material can be used in different ways to create different qualities of line.
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Sheila Ceccarelli
October 10, 2013 @ 12:14 pm
Wow! These images are absolutely brilliant and what a fantastic teaching technique you’ve created here to get children to understand how to create a three dimensional sense in their drawing and also to understand tonal differences and how they can be used for that purpose. They are very sculptural drawings indeed and I love them!
Absolutely stunning. Can you think of a similar exercise in charcoal drawing big? I want to draw shells big next week and would love to get simple, sculptural form in their drawings… any ideas?
Thanks
Sheila
Carolyn Weisnagel
October 12, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
I love your methodology. Drawing is so much about seeing and learning how to know when to simplify or complicate. I will definitely teach this to my high school students. I used dry india ink wax resist with them this week to loosen-up their approach to drawing (I find the paintbrush is a great tool for this) and your lesson shows another application of the medium to use in formal ways of representation. Love the feathers as quills too.
Thank you again.
Carolyn (Montreal)
Paula Briggs
October 21, 2013 @ 1:34 pm
Hi carolyn many thanks for your comment – if you feel inclined to share your dry india ink was resist images we’d love to see them: [email protected]! best wishes