Life Drawing for Children (and acting up a bit!)
Life Drawing for Children By Paula Briggs
I wanted to give children (ages 6 to 10) the opportunity to draw figures from life, and to create a session which was active and fun. Children were invited to bring in props which would inform poses – taking it in turns to model and draw. The children were full of energy and enthusiasm and responded well to their changing roles. In particular the children impressed me most with their attitude to the resulting drawings – we avoided their stereotypical thoughts as to what a drawing of a person “should be” and instead I think the children really did enjoy making and seeing drawings which tried to capture the spirit of the pose.
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Drawing from Life with Children and Making Cartoon Characters | AccessArt: Visual Arts Teaching, Learning & Practice
November 6, 2011 @ 8:57 am
[…] on from our earlier workshop Drawing from Life (and acting up a bit), we started by doing some life modeling. The children took turns to pose, using dressing up clothes […]
Helen R
April 26, 2018 @ 6:57 pm
This was a brilliant lesson plan for my 21 after school kids. I’m very new to this (covering for a friend) and still learning and struggling with the ones that just want to draw a perfect drawing with a pencil and rubber! The dressing up went a bit crazy and we got charcoal all over the floor but there were some great outcomes. Your photos make it look a heck of a lot calmer than my lot though! Love this site, such an amazing resource
Paula Briggs, AccessArt
April 27, 2018 @ 10:18 am
Hello Helen and thank you for taking the time to get in touch. I’m so glad it went well (in a hectic way – and yes i think its like that for us too!). Pls do keep in touch, best wishes, Paula