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Lesson Plans


Re: Drawing Animals

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The Cheevers (lazydog)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:21:07 -0500

Get an overhead projector. Copy an animal onto a transparent sheet. While
asking them to name the shape of the head draw it with a marker on a
transparent sheet on top. When the animal has been described totally take
away the Xeroxed animal print and you should be left with nothing but
shapes.
Lucky you to teach in a museum. I was in the Brooklyn museum and loved the
situation. Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Masters <rmasters>
To: artsednet.edu <artsednet.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:54 AM
Subject: Drawing Animals

>Hello! I am new to the list and very excited to have found it. I am a
>museum educator at an art and natural history museum and am working on a
>class that involves combining art and our African Animal exhibit. So far
>the class is focused on the different ways to draw animals. I am thinking
>of covering gesture, representational drawing, and building on basic shapes
>("what basic shape is the rhino's head", etc...). The class will be
>primarily for early elementary students and basically I am a little stuck
>on how to explain, or rather, simplify the explanation of gesture drawing.
>Can anyone help me with this?
>
>Also, any other thoughts or ideas that come to mind that would suit this
>class would be very appreciated!!
>--Rebecca
>

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