For today’s class we started with one of my favourite, fun warm-up exercise—The Scribble Challenge! This fun activity for all ages that is great for developing our problem solving ability.
This unique challenge also helped me to see the different personalities in the class. The free thinking creatives seemed to have more fun with choosing colours and fun shapes where other students had more fun analyzing the puzzle aspect of this exercise. And of course there were others in the middle, not unlike myself, who love both aspects of this exercise.
We started by using a marker of any colour, and made a large scribble on paper. Next, we filled in the spaces of our scribbles while trying our best to follow these two rules:
- Use only three colours.
- The same colour cannot share a "wall".
After we were fully warmed up with this exercise of creating outlines and fills, we then moved on to today's project—TRACING.
Tracing is such a valuable tool! I have heard many artists refer to tracing as "cheating" but I don't buy that for a second. Tracing an image can help us create muscle memory, to practice new and intricate lines and forms that we might never have drawn freehand and to train ourselves to "draw what we see and not what we think we see". It It can also create the foundation for a drawing to allow us to focus more on details like shading and texture.
For today's lesson, I used the beautiful, large windows that we have at our location. For each student, I taped up a printed photo of their choice. Student were to choose from pictures of buses or flowers. Over each photo, I taped a clean white sheet of paper on which each student would use markers to trace the image behind it.
After tracing, it was detail time! All colours of marker were now pulled out and the children were set free to decorate as they saw fit. There was quite the array of ideas here! Different textures and colour combinations.
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