We started class through reflecting on your social engagement as art. Thank you for sharing too! Sooooo much fun! I want you to think about deepening engagement (through connection, meaning and relevance) throughout the semester. The social engagements that you all shared were so diverse. That tells me that they were all personal. I loved them! We reviewed Elliot Eisner's list of Ten Lessons the Arts Teach. and his article from last class. We reviewed the Mimetic Theory and had a wonderful treat (in the form of a "real" still life) to remember its tenets. Yum! Thank you so much Ellen and Amanda!!! We debriefed the Kumashiro reading on anti-oppressive education. We talked about creating personal and open-ended prompts... like, "How is my home, body, or school like a cell?" This question adds meaning and personal relevance through a metaphor. My twelve-year daughter created a cell model out of material which was both biology and art, but asking that particular question above can also be connected to language arts and is a critical thinking skill that creates deeper connections for both art and science.
Today we learned about drawing techniques, learned some methods, processes, techniques and new vocabulary. (Marks, processes, media, ground, support, line, contour, values, lost & found, line quality, art "rules", mapping, measuring, proportion, perspective, etc.) Sorry perspective was a bit harsh... It is important as you will read in your reading assignment. Realism is really key for students starting in grade 4-6 according to many scholars... that is also where art instruction subsides. Therefore, realism (starting with observational drawing techniques like we began in class today are key for the development of your 4-6th graders).
Posted by Emily Kruszynski:
just as a review... 5 ways of achieving PERSPECTIVE: 1. linear perspective (1, 2, & 3 point-perspective, vanishing point w/ a line of horizon) 2 overlapping (layering) 3. size (the larger the object the closer it is, usually) 4. placement (the lower on the page the closer it is, usually) 5. atmospheric perspective (the more detail or intense the color, the closer it is, usually) Contour Drawing (using the left side of the brain): 1. no lifting your pencil off paper 2. no talking 3. no naming 4. no looking 5. go slow Gesture Drawing: quick, loose drawings of only the main shapes/forms of where things are in relation to each other
also... Drawing Techniques: 1. cross-hatching (grid-like) 2. stipple (pointillism, dots) 3. shading 4. erasing 5. smudging 6. sketching (loose) etc, etc, etc... Drawing Media (tools): 1. pencil/graphite 2. pen/pen & ink 3. charcoal 4. pastels (oil/chalk) 5. colored pencils, crayons, markers, etc etc, etc, etc...
The following is a drawing done by me with my eyes closed of my hand:
Playing with shading:
Picture drawn by Dan Barney:
Gesture Drawing:
Comment by dan barney
I meant right side of the brain Emily... ooops. I think I said it wrong in class. Sometimes my left side doesn't always work the way it should.
Comment by Brooke Stevenson
I think blind contour drawing is a great way to get children into drawing without making them feel like they need to be highly skilled. I think it takes a lot of pressure off. The way the picture looks is not that important and is not the focus. It would be good to use this exercise (blind contour drawing of hand) to introduce students to art and get them feeling comfortable.
Comment by Karyn Alvey
I thought this lesson was really interesting. I can't draw well -at all, so I really enjoyed trying in different ways. I liked blind contour drawing because it doesn't have to look amazing by any means. I like how it causes the artist to focus on details of the objects form and shape.
I also really liked learning about all of the different drawing techniques. I like cross-hatching a lot as well as stipple. One piece of artwork I learned about in elementary was " A Sunday Afternoon." It's always stuck to me and I still remember it, because it was drawn using stipple. It's made up of all dots! How cool. :)
Fun lesson!
Comment by Brittany Crowder
I really liked this lesson, because I feel like I am not such a great drawer. I liked how no one was very good when doing blind contour drawings:). I think it would be fun to draw more intricate drawings with my students using blind contour. It would be neat to have them go home and practice this on their own time, draw a blind contour drawing of something around the house, and come back and share it with the class.
Comment by Amanda Morgan
This lesson was really interesting to me. Ellen and I did the food for it and we emphasized the reality to the fruits that we brought. I liked how we made our blind contour drawings because that definitely shows realism. This theory is all about imitation so with my students I would have them draw something that they love or a piece of artwork that is displayed around the room. If they chose to do something they lived like the play ground or the soccer field, I would have them make it as realistic as they could. With an artwork itself I would emphasize imitation and making it look just like a copy of it. I would have them use different drawing utensils if available and also different ways of drawing it such as the blind contour, or looking straight at it, etc.
Comment by Ellen Funch
I am really glad we did this lesson at the beginning of the semester because when i thought about taking an art class, I was so nervous about drawing since i am not very confident in that area! Contour drawing helped me understand that drawing is about training our eye to focus on what we are looking at. I think this activity would be a wonderful introductory activity in my classroom multiple times a week or even for a short period of time everyday just to get the kids excited about and confident in what they are drawing. I would also do something similar to Amanda and have them bring in something from home. I think it would be cool also to track their progress and maybe have them make a book of their work at the end of the year or something. I also loved experiment with different mediums such as charcoal and graphite. I really think opening up a world of mediums to kids in art will inspire them to be creative to use all of those mediums and try new things and just get genuinely excited about art.
Comment by Rachael Haught
This was a great intro to the class. I think that working on the right side of the brain from the VERY beginning will have a great impact on each students' actual and perceived abilities in their success at school. Doing excercises like we did in class will help them to use their right side of the brain and thus enhancing it's ability to be used. I enjoyed the contour drawing a lot and it could even be used as a good quiet time activity since there is no talking allowed!!!
Comment by Brielle Romney
i think this lesson set a great tone for the rest of the semester! i had no idea there were that many ways to draw! i would possibly have the kids, after they have experimented doing all the different types of techniques, draw an actual picture or something they like/find interesting using that type of drawing. tell the kids to have their picture include multiple shapes, to practice the style more in-depth
Comment by Tiffany Baum
I enjoyed this lesson. I have always enjoyed drawing. When I integrate this lesson into my curriculum at school, I will have the children draw shapes that are common, and than I would have the students draw their own shape with their eyes closed, after they open their eyes I would have them name the shape. I would than have the class bring there shapes to the front of the room, and have the students choose three or four of them, and than have them create a drawing including those shapes that they choose.
Comment by Nayelli Concha
This was an excelent lesson on drawing! I really learned a lot from all the techniques and ideas that you guys taught us. Now I know that drawing is not focusing on a sheet of paper to create something but rather is about looking deeply to a specific object and concentrating in that object for a long time until one is capable of making that object alive in paper. I really believe know that to be a great drawer we must concentrate on the form and on the object we are trying to draw by really and deeply looking at it. This can be excelent lesson to apply in my classroom!
Comment by Nancy
I didn't know that much about drawing but this lesson helped me out a lot. I learned some techniques for learning to draw real life objects and how to draw different forms and lines. I think this would be a great thing to teach the kids a geometry lesson and things about shapes and then have them draw something and try to only look at the shape of it without using its name.
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