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Re: Everyone can draw....

From: Bicyclken
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 11:26:43 PDT

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    In a message dated 06/26/2000 11:04:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
    sbennett writes:

    > I like your thoughts. Have you found a sequence of exercises that work for
    > you? Which grade level do you teach. What gives you the most success in
    > teaching drawing? Susan in Ohio

    Yes, I have a sequence of drawing exercises that I use in Art 1 that gives a
    progression of thing to create drawing skills.

    1. Contour drawing
    2. Contour drawing with gradations in the negative space.
    3. Basic forms-drawing from how light hits the objects
        including the 5 principles of shading.
        a. Highlight
        b. Shade
        c. Shadows
        d. Reflected Light
        e. Backshading to show the edge of the highlighted side.
    4. Simple still life of objects like forms, such as apples, oranges, lemons,
    bananas, bottles, vases, cups etc.
    5. Major still life with wood, glass, burlap,etc textures including lines and
    different pencil techniques.

    These are spread out over the year in Art 1 and are done with a number 2
    pencil, ebony black pencil, tortillons, cottonballs, paper towels, and
    Kneaded erasers. I use Strathmore Alexis 400 paper for the bigger and more
    advanced drawings.

    My friend and coworker, Bob Capitolo will be writing a book this summer, of
    the foundation year in high school art, that we hope to get printed by Davis
    publishing.

    Ken Schwab
    San Jose CA 

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