Drawing With Children, Lesson 2

Drawing from Graphics - Lessons

If you read Drawing With Children, Lesson 2, Overview then you have an idea of what you are teaching from this chapter. Below, I will outline lessons. You need the book to do the lessons. My purpose is to help to organize your lessons for this book.

Handouts

Page xxviii lists the handouts recommended by the author. [Handouts 7-13]

Meanwhile, look for graphics that goes along with lions, tropical birds, and horses as well as other interesting topics. Look on pages 96, 102, 113 to see some of the compositions that children made in this chapter.

Exercises from Drawing Tips

The drawing tips begin on page 83* and include everything up to The Lesson.

A. Overlapping

Overlapping is described on page 85 and is illustrated on page 86. You will need something like figure 2.5 that is shown on page 86 for the exercise.

B. Making Adjustments and Changes

M. Brookes says the section, "Making Adjustments and Changes" is very important. If you have made a copy of the figures 2.6-2.9, then consider posting them somewhere that your students will see them during art class.

This is explained beginning on page 85 and is illustrated on pages 87 and 89 figures 2.6, 2.7, 2.9 and 2.9. If you are teaching just one or two students, have them sit next to you when you read this to them [if they are young students]. Show them the illustrations when they are mentioned in the text. If you have more students, you might need to make a copy of pages 85 and 87. For this lesson, you will read and discuss pages 85 - 90 stopping at Where to Start.

C. Lessons

This is really simple, turn to page 114 and copy this list in your planner because this is the steps to take for the lessons. Not only is this easy, you are told not to worry too much about the structure.

Level one starts on page 93
Level two starts on page 99
Level three starts on page 106

Next as detailed in Planning you are to lay out the copies of the samples, your background and foreground ideas, and any other materials that you have collected for this lesson.

C1. Preliminary Sketches

The preliminary sketch exercise is explained on page 91, and introduced on page 90 beginning with "Projecting the image on the paper" and illustrated in figure 2.14 on page 96.

Delacroix's Study for
sketches

Entrée des Croisés
à Constantinople

NOTE: If their paper is 9" x 12", then the box to represent that size of paper should be approximately 3" x 4". If you have your students draw the boxes, I want to say that the box size does not have to be drawn exactly to scale. The students could simply quarter their drawing paper and make sketches in those areas. One or two of the areas could be set aside for a complete composition study.

As shown on page 96, the children are to draw boxes that are a similar size and shape of the paper they are using [see note in box on right] and in those boxes, create some compositions using the character that they drew in Lesson One. If they drew the lion, it would be handy to have some pictures of the places where lions live for the children to look at while thinking about what they would like to draw.

C2. The Tips following Preliminary Sketches

These are so good that your student will benefit in hearing about these tips. They begin near the bottom of page 91 and continue to the end of page 92.

D. Application

Maybe you've noticed this little booklet that I've posted images of in the art section of DY (or not). This little booklet is an example of how your child can apply the skills learned in chapter two to enhance learning in other subjects.

More Lessons

If you want more step by step drawings, look into the Draw · Write · Now · books. These books combine drawing and handwriting. Otherwise, provide graphics and some guidance on where to start when drawing additional pictures. Use the steps on page 114. Also, be sure to read page 112.