warm-ups & icebreakers

Cardboard Sculptures

Drawing Clouds and Mark Making

Minimalising: Using Simple Line Drawings to Explore Sculptural Form

Seasonal Drawings: Observation, Composition and Colour

Drawing Stories: Illustrations by Children

Discovering Charcoal – Warm-Up Exercise for Children

Dressing Up as Fossils!

See Three Shapes

Asemic Writing: Expressive Mark Making through Invented Text

Thoughtful Mark Making

Drawing Vegetables: A Drawing Game

Making ‘Large as Life’ Scroll Drawings

Exercise for Making an Artist’s Book or Sketchbook

Warm-up Drawing Exercise: Making Stronger Drawings

Quick Drawing Exercise: Helping Children to Draw Larger!

Simple Drawing Exercise: Drawing to the Slow Rhythm of a Metronome

Tackling Still Life for Children Part 2 – Building a Drawing from the Ground Up

Tackling Still Life for Children Part 1 – Continuous Line Drawing

“Feely Drawings” or Drawing by Touch – a 5 minute drawing exercise

Developing a Drawing Through Exploration of Drawing Media