Draw on This—Day Four: The Markers

Today's class was awesome.

I had been struggling at bit with this class. We had been working on our Teddy bear drawings with charcoal and things were getting a bit messy. I saw that it was time to stop with the smudgy mess and try a different strategy. Inspired by the Monart method I switched our tools and started some new projects with the kids.

The Monart method is fantastic for presenting a way to see and to draw into super simple elements. Today we looks at circles, dots and different types of lines. We talked about what they are, and different ways of drawing those elements.

Using colourful and WATER PROOF markers, we used these elements to create fun abstract drawings. We also tried a fun and tricky duplication exercise. Every child received a piece of paper on which was printed a series boxes containing designs using various circles, dots and lines. Beside each design was an empty box were students used markers to try to copy these designs.

It was fun to see the children learn to work with the markers, something that they could not erase! At first I heard a few mournful sighs for their erasers used in our previous class, but the erasers were soon forgotten and a stronger focus was given to the exercise.

When we were done I had such a great feeling! We had accomplished two small projects, there was little mess, the kids seem to have learned something new and all had huge smiles on their faces. I think that we are on the right track.

Sorry no pictures this week as I had no camera. :-(