Marty, I love the magnet idea, too! My heart's delight would be to have
magnets with words I use when I am teaching drawing.
blind contour
contour
gesture
ratio
proportion
positive
negative
Describe
Don't Name
horizontal
vertical
diagonal
steel bar (my words to remind kids
to keep a "steel bar"
between their eye looking
and their hand drawing.
ie, if you see a zigzag your
eye follows the pattern and
leads your hand as if
connected by a steel bar.
angle transfer (for the way you can
hold up a pencil over an
angle (for example a corner
of a room) with one eye
closed, and then lay your
pencil down on your paper
without twisting your wrist
to transfer that angle to your
page.
And the last one would be a symbol that was four arrows pointing out
(N,S,E,W) from a center. That is my symbol to remind kids to think
about what is directly above, below, and beside what you just drew as
you are drawing. Or, it could be just "N, S, E, W."
Linda Woods
Visit our student's web art gallery at St.John's School
www.sjs.org
click on "Stories of SJS," click on "Arts Stories," click on Linda
Woods' name. View artwork by Lower, and Middle School students as well
as our art archives.
