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Group gesture Drawing..comments?

From: Kevin Lock (kevin.lock)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 21:01:09 PST

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    Something that I like to do is sit the kids in a circle around the model and
    have them start a gesture drawing.
    After 15 sec or so, yell switch and have all the students move one seat to
    the left (or right ), and then take up the drawing where the last student
    left off. I find this does a couple of things. It breaks that fragile
    attitude that art is sacred. It makes kids openly comment on other's art
    work. It allows the students to see a diferent view through another artists
    eyes. It makes the students make critical judgement on anothers work and
    presents a problem solving situation for them to expand upon. Peer
    Counseling, Group work, exposure to different styles, etc. and it's also fun
    after the students warm up to the idea. You have to move beyond gesture in
    order to have many kids work on a number of pieces, but the results are
    interesting to both the teacher and student.
    Has anyone else tried this?
    Let me know what you think......

    regards

    Kevin 

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