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Drawing For Practicing Art Teachers

Assessment tools Four Corners "Preconceived Notions"

Drawing Course Focuses

Drawing Course Focuses Drawing for the First Time Description Ease into art making in this  enjoyable, non-intimidating first  drawing course. Projects help  students learn concepts and  express themselves as they  develop skills and confidence .  Students discuss what they see,  evaluate drawings, and develop  the ability to see in non-stereotypical ways. Short exercises, long poses using a life model, still life, and landscape enable students to learn about line, value, form in space, and composition. This course includes an independent portfolio project and a portfolio review day to be arranged. Drawing Fundamentals Description This in-depth workshop introduces and builds upon fundamental drawing concepts that apply across disciplines. Line, value, shape, form, space, intent, and other elements are addressed using direct observation, figure studies, and invented and conceptual imagery. The class refers to contemporary and historic pra...

Learning to Draw is like learning to write

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Marshfield Senior Center Day 4

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Self Portrait Blind Conour Another Artist who PRACTICES Blind Contour   Hands sign-language Figure From Amateur Simplifying the FIGURE... Basic FORM Simple Forms From Model GESTURE DRAWING Kolwitz 6 Hand/Brain Eye Skills

Marshfield Senior Center -Day 3

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LOOK don't THINK   Foreshortening and Vantage Points Contour Drawing Small Contour Drawings Review -Building Concepts learning-how-to-see-as-artist-negative. watercolor-values-form-light-to-dark.html   Form+in+Perspective   session-4-contour-line-blind-contour. Shape Distortion Flower Painting/Drawings 1 & 2 Point Linear Perspective Drawing Solids Part 2 Cube What I am learning: #1) Every participant has a unique idea of what will happen in this mini-course & #2) Every participant can take away something (might be unexpected) from each meeting if they are open. My role varries depending on the individual level of experience and or knowledge that each participant brings to the experience I am: Facilitator of drawing exercises - this means I design and plan the use of time Instructor : of concepts related to connecting the Eye/Brain/Hand Muse: guide to consider other possibilities or expand ideas Quote from participants: "I a...

Marshfield Senior Center, Day 2

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Subject Matter - Inanimate Objects...What do we draw and why? Review and Purpose for Seeing the Negative learning-how-to-see-as-artist-negative.html   Design Elements and Principles Types of Forms Creating ILLUSION of Form with Value Cylinder & Sphere form-in-dramatic-light   Applying knowledge of reality to creating illusion Shape to Form Grouping Forms  form-in-space  

Marshfield Senior Center, Day 1

Today was the 1st of 4 lessons on Drawing... Goals for today were: 1) To be introduced to each other and to begin to break down barriers 2) BEGIN to learn some of the "tricks of the trade" or "Methods to the Mystery"  Sometimes drawing something that we would like is as simple as applying some of the basic tricks Artists have been using the show off for years! 3) Learn how to use and see positive & negative SPACE & SHAPE  2-observation-drawing-negative.html   4) Work form an Image and learn how to: a) make it any size you want b) learn how to transfer a drawing to any surface for further development in any medium c) learn how you can take an existing drawing and develop it into a creative original work I want my developing Artists to know that ... 1)  You ARE an artist.. you just haven't realized it yet due to lack of interest, practice and believing in yourself (maybe you were discouraged somehow in your past) 2) Conc...