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Adapting AccessArt: Stories and Faces
Children create layered portraits of people in a daycare centre inspired by the Exploring Identity pathway.
life drawing for children
Children select their own props and take it in turns to model and draw.
Drawing cartoon characters
An exciting resource using life drawings to create cartoon characters.
Where The Wild Things Are
This resource forms part of a series which enable primary-aged children to explore drawing and making inspired by Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.
Drawing inspired by Quentin Blake
Taking Quentin Blake’s drawings as a starting point for three simple exercises.
Introducing drawing from life
Introduce students to the first steps of drawing from life in a series of short exercises or ‘studies’.
Life Drawing- getting it right
A resource to help students practice their life drawing skills.
Dance and Drawing
Professional dancer Belinda Chapman shows how she draws the moving figure.
How to measure proportions
A workshop that explains the ‘Sighting Method’ to enable students to draw in proportion from a live model.
Teenagers Draw A Dog
Pupil’s are challenged to draw a live subject that keeps moving!
Drawing someone drawing something
This exciting project explores the idea that sketchbooks can be used as a tool to generate sketches and gather visual ideas for later use.
Drawing with wire
A creative session that encourages students not to concentrate on how their bodies look, but to visualise how they feel.
Repetative Life drawing exercise
Inspired by Henri Matisse, this workshop encourages students to challenge pre-conceived ideas of what a drawing should be.
drawing from a life model
