Still and Dynamic Drawing: Making Magic Spells!
By Paula Briggs
At the moment in our house we are in the middle of a Harry Potter/Worst Witch phase, so when I was thinking about subject matter for a dynamic drawing session in the Drawing Workshop for ages 6 to 10, I decided upon making spells!
The workshop was split over two, 1-hour long sessions. In session 1 we concentrated on making still drawings, and then in session 2 we turned our still drawings into a turbulent, dynamic, shared magic spell pot! The children loved it…
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ellie somerset
May 6, 2013 @ 9:32 pm
It sounds like a really fun creative process (similar to covering the tables with paper – having a few materials out and drawing to a variety of music pieces from Bach to Miles Davis to Zappa, which i have done with 15 / 16 year olds as well as 11 year olds – both successfully.
I especially loved the water soluble graphite and turbulent water idea (maybe could be developed to work with other elements – material; eg. air – light pencil marks / pastels; earth – charcoal / oil pastels etc).
I wonder if any shy children might feel lost with so much going on, also if it would work with a larger age range (6/7 – 12?)
Paula Briggs
May 14, 2013 @ 9:58 pm
Thanks for adding these ideas to the pot!
I did have one shy girl and I kind of gave her secret challenges to make her feel special (but not in the lime light)… But yes I can see a shy child might be overwhelmed. This group is very familiar with each other which helps enormously with the trust thing…
If you try it with a wider age range pls let me know ho you get on. See sheila’s post too: /?p=11816 A big visual conversation with teenagers
Sheila Ceccarelli
May 15, 2013 @ 1:17 pm
This was fun too – ‘A visual conversation’ /?p=4618 A little bit like the game ‘consequences’ – use bright, flip board markers for max. effect!-)