It's a Wednesday and high time to have another 'Kidzart'. I've been reading the excellent
We start off by copying drawings which are upside-down... we chose cats and dogs. The fact that the drawing is reversed abstracts the familiar subject matter into shapes, angles and lines. It also discourages using the usual symbols- by this I mean the tendency to think ' this is what an eye's like- round!' , or 'this is how I draw a tail!' . We're careful, also, not to name any of these bits.
The first drawings go well, but they tire after a while-poor mites! and start reverting to what they think or know is there. Or what they believe should be visibly there, eg a dog has four legs so I give it four even if I can't see them all.
We have a break and then they stand at easels like 'real artists' and do a painting of yours truly lying on a couch. We're amazed at how well they work- for forty minutes-
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I love the pictures - what talent.
I am also grateful for your tips on how to get children to look at what they are drawing. I shall pass them on to the mum of my granddaughter.
Thanks, Dot, I was surprised at how well they coped.
This is also how we teach grown-ups- who use the same preconceptions and symbols when they're first learning. It's more about learning to see than learning to draw, tho' some hand-to-eye coordination is also needed, and technical bits about the different mediums.
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