I LOVE drawing. LOVE it. I want to marry it. This might just be my favorite chapter.
I am particularly excited about the idea of having students draw maps and diagrams from their life. Has anyone done this? I would love to see what the young ones would do when asked about how our insides work. All of the life/figure/portrait drawing ideas are also exciting.
I love the John Dewey quote "The roots of art and beauty are in the basic vital functions, the biological commonplaces man shares with birds and beasts". We should really have the kids at the musuem draw more- or at least sent them back to their class with a mounted Ptarmigan or some such animal to draw.
I really haven't used crayons much. I do have to say I was surprised to like the construction paper crayons as much as I did. They're high pigment content is great. Did any of you ever do the crayon engraving in school? I want to try it. I remember doing the crayon resist and also the crayon encaustic- which was a disaster.
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I have never tried crayon engraving either, or maps and diagrams. The district does have quite a few painting kits and I think they are lovely. Sometimes less open for a full range of experimentation, but still good of course.
Heidi is teaching a painting lesson this round based on Faith Ringgold's works with bridge images. Another specialist is teaching a Sistine Chapel lesson where students copy a section of folded cloth focusing on intensity of color to show highlights of colors. Both kits employ watercolors. The kindergarten and special education lessons this round are using tempura and they are more about experiencing the paint than they are about structure.
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