Teaching the fundamentals of Drawing
I should have known. I was able to knock out weeks 1-4 relatively quickly, but week 5 always kicks me around. Which is strange, because I LOVE Perspective drawing. It’s regular, it’s got rules, I can always draw a little house in one or two point perspective just for fun when I’m frustrated that […]
For ages, we’ve believed that those people who can do something utterly amazing-art, music, dance, engineers, architects, scientists, are just talented. They were born understanding how to draw, how to move to rhythm, how to put together structures, how to take apart complex problems to discover the solution. And for those who feel that they’re […]
Yup, we have exercises too. The good news is, they’re fairly easy (I’m even going to help you cheat!) and they produce results, and they can even be relaxing (so long as you give yourself a break.) What do these exercises do? They help your drawing hand draw more steadily, and have better control. If […]
Here are scripts for week 2 (“mirror image”), week 3 (“upside down drawing”) and week 4 (“abstract art”). Week 5’s “perspective” is taking longer, just because the word “perspective” covers a very large field. And since I’m trying to prep scripts for everyone from the four year old first year student through the twelve […]
I got into teaching art through Classical Conversations. I’d taught art on a substitute basis before, but you always have to follow the regular teacher’s rules when you do that. One of the things I love about Classical Conversations is it integrates art and music, both the study of theory and technique and the study […]
I remember the day clearly. The day I thought, “I’ll never draw like that”. It was the fourth grade, and another boy in my class drew a tree. Gnarled and knotted, with a rotted gap one expected an owl or squirrel to pop out of any second, this mass of squiggles and strokes looked so […]