Drawing With Children, Lesson 2, Overview

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Drawing from Graphics - Overview

In lesson two, the student learns concepts in composition, how to change and adjust drawings, where to start, and overlapping.

Drawing Tips

The author wants you to go over the drawing tips with your students. The tips begin on page 83* and include everything up to The Lesson. The tips end on page 92. The tips are used in the lesson.

Overlapping

Overlapping, page 85, is an exercise. The exercise is illustrated on page 86.

Changing, Adjusting a Drawing

This is explained beginning on page 85. Should the students express certain dissatisfactions in their drawings, the instructor can show them that they can fix what they do not like (called "Oops!" in the book on pages 87 and 89) and trace parts of their drawing onto another sheet of paper for the reasons shown on page 89.

The author feels that this information is important for the student to know, so place adjustments and changes on your art schedule.

Where to Start [Emphasis?]

Where to Start, page 90, does not have its own subheading, but I am adding it here as if it does. The paragraphs have suggestions for nudging your students in where to start. Those who draw know that you draw the closest object first, but this is more of a compositional thinking process than putting the pencil to paper and drawing without thinking of where to start. There are two things to consider, the location of the subject on the paper and what part of the subject to draw first. Of course, I may be way off base and this may not be what the author is saying at all. Nevertheless, Where to Start leads to Preliminary Sketches. Regarding where to start, there is a tip in the last part of the paragraph with the heading: Beginning on page 95.

Preliminary Sketches

The mechanics of composition are explored in preliminary sketches. The student is led to purposefully draw the subject(s) on the paper in a setting. A goal is to scale the subjects so that the student learns to use the whole sheet of paper. A 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.

Artists do this sort of thing, they are sometimes called compositional studies. Compositional studies are often combined with the exercises mentioned on pages 91 and 92.

I believe that compositional study is important for students to put into practice.

Standards

Depending on how you go about conducting the class, this lesson may fulfill most of the art standards for grades 1-3. The additional visual arts needed are the ones that falls into the technical media¹ category.
To read more about visual arts standards, see Homeschool Art Topics by Grade.

The Lesson

Beginning on page 93, the author provides a lesson for each of the three levels. For additional lessons, she has provided a general outline on page 114. The topic of chapter 2 is important and I recommend using the outline on page 114 and doing more than just the one lesson. Be on the lookout for graphics that you believe will inspire your children to draw. Use illustrated books such as Golden Books and other children's books as a source for graphics that your children might like.