Drawing Source Material: Shells & Spirals
A collection of imagery and sources which you can use to prompt drawing in schools and community groups.
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Shells
Use the films below to enable children to explore drawing shells. Try to create a sense of momentum – for example you might pause the video 4 times and ask the pupils to make a 1 minute, 2 minute, 3 minute and 4 minute drawing at each pause.
Encourage close and slow looking by talking as they draw – use your voice to attract their attention to qualities of the shells.
Try the same exercise using different materials, ie handwriting pen, ink and nib, pastel, watercolour…
Charles Dessalines
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt
Common Triton Horns, Charonia tritonis (1596-1610) by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt. Original from the Rijksmuseum.
George Shaw
Tritonian murex or Sea trumpet illustration from The Naturalist's Miscellany (1789-1813) by George Shaw (1751-1813)
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