Drawing History
Drawing and painting were the only things that I could distinguish as being art in elementary school because as I had mentioned in earlier blogs our classes often integrated art so much into other classes that it often did not seem much like art at all but rather just an extension of social studies or a holiday celebration.
When we did start to draw though I loved to draw people and I would do it at home all of the time and I would practice flowers and dogs because they were my favorite . I will always remember though in Kindergarten for show and tell I brought my family album of drawings that I had made. I remember some of the kids laughing at my drawings and so I said that I had made them a long time ago and just brought them because i wanted people to know about my family and one girl named Penny asked why I didn't bring pictures because they would look better. I was so hurt and sometime after that I only drew in secret and if I had to draw i would get it over with right away and wouldn't practice. I remember bringing a project home where I had to draw and elephant because it was the animal that I was doing a project on. I asked my mom if she knew how so she got some pictures for me and she showed me how to trace. I hated tracing it felt like cheating and I couldn't stand that so I asked her to draw one on her own. She couldn't it looked like a mouse with big ears and a long squiggly nose. I knew for a fact that my mom was my idol and the fact that she couldn't draw well made me feel a bit better because she can paint really well. So I figured that I needed to just get through doing my drawings and hopefully I could do other art. I ignored drawing for so long because the 'drawers' were exceptional and my drawings didn't look like theirs. I was so jaded by drawing. (hence this color for this entry) I was drawing eyes in grade 9 one day off of a picture from a magazine and my teacher came by and was so impressed she was my lovely art teacher and she said "Alli why don't you ever draw these eyes are exceptional." I was dumbfounded. Ever since in my mind drawing is something that I take or leave but i don't feel inadequate any longer and whenever someone says 'draw something' I draw eyes.
I want to introduce to my students the wide variety of ways to draw. I want them to explore abstract first and figure out how to use cross hatching, negatives, lines, shapes, shading, contour, all while paralleling this work with other art forms to keep students engaged in different tools and aspects of art making. Then we can move into representational drawings. I want to do this while showing students famous works of abstract drawing and realistic drawing so that they can see that if they cannot master one form, other styles are still completely accessible. For students who are already anxious drawers I would suggest a wide variety of material for drawing subjects if they are concerned with realism, while trying to engage them in other media. I think that it is also very important consider having conversations with them about the aspects of drawing that bug them. even if it is in a round about story often students will offer up information. I think that if the student can also work on making art in 3D ways or with painting it can help students to hone their motor skills and also explore forms and ideas and ways of looking at subject matters which can help students to understand how to approach drawings.
The questions that I want to talk about my cousins parents are:
-What does Declan like to talk about?
-What does Declan like to work with paint, drawing, collage?
-Does Declan like to do art on his own?
-How does Declan interact with others?
-I wanted to look at his past drawings and art work from class
-Do you do art work with Declan at home?
-What would make interesting subject matter for Declan?
When we did start to draw though I loved to draw people and I would do it at home all of the time and I would practice flowers and dogs because they were my favorite . I will always remember though in Kindergarten for show and tell I brought my family album of drawings that I had made. I remember some of the kids laughing at my drawings and so I said that I had made them a long time ago and just brought them because i wanted people to know about my family and one girl named Penny asked why I didn't bring pictures because they would look better. I was so hurt and sometime after that I only drew in secret and if I had to draw i would get it over with right away and wouldn't practice. I remember bringing a project home where I had to draw and elephant because it was the animal that I was doing a project on. I asked my mom if she knew how so she got some pictures for me and she showed me how to trace. I hated tracing it felt like cheating and I couldn't stand that so I asked her to draw one on her own. She couldn't it looked like a mouse with big ears and a long squiggly nose. I knew for a fact that my mom was my idol and the fact that she couldn't draw well made me feel a bit better because she can paint really well. So I figured that I needed to just get through doing my drawings and hopefully I could do other art. I ignored drawing for so long because the 'drawers' were exceptional and my drawings didn't look like theirs. I was so jaded by drawing. (hence this color for this entry) I was drawing eyes in grade 9 one day off of a picture from a magazine and my teacher came by and was so impressed she was my lovely art teacher and she said "Alli why don't you ever draw these eyes are exceptional." I was dumbfounded. Ever since in my mind drawing is something that I take or leave but i don't feel inadequate any longer and whenever someone says 'draw something' I draw eyes.
I want to introduce to my students the wide variety of ways to draw. I want them to explore abstract first and figure out how to use cross hatching, negatives, lines, shapes, shading, contour, all while paralleling this work with other art forms to keep students engaged in different tools and aspects of art making. Then we can move into representational drawings. I want to do this while showing students famous works of abstract drawing and realistic drawing so that they can see that if they cannot master one form, other styles are still completely accessible. For students who are already anxious drawers I would suggest a wide variety of material for drawing subjects if they are concerned with realism, while trying to engage them in other media. I think that it is also very important consider having conversations with them about the aspects of drawing that bug them. even if it is in a round about story often students will offer up information. I think that if the student can also work on making art in 3D ways or with painting it can help students to hone their motor skills and also explore forms and ideas and ways of looking at subject matters which can help students to understand how to approach drawings.
The questions that I want to talk about my cousins parents are:
-What does Declan like to talk about?
-What does Declan like to work with paint, drawing, collage?
-Does Declan like to do art on his own?
-How does Declan interact with others?
-I wanted to look at his past drawings and art work from class
-Do you do art work with Declan at home?
-What would make interesting subject matter for Declan?
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