This book is really helpful for drawing skills ideas.
Drawing Upside Down
This is just a sketch of a tree from a photograph that I did. You could give the children a simple picture, upside down, and they draw it upside down.
Drawing the Four Angles
Turn the object, and draw it from a new angle in a different colour. The final one can be tricky!
Drawing in String
Creating the drawing in string. This was a self-portrait. It enables children to see the contours.
Experiment with a Variety of Materials.
Give the children freedom to experiment with different pencils, charcoal, chalk and oil pastels.
Negative Spaces
Children look at the space in between objects- not the object (this is tricky!) This exercise also encourages the children to use the right hand side of their brain, the creative side.
This is explained in this book (another favourite!)
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