Foundations: Drawing Tools: Lesson 2
Drawing with their tool
Drawing with their tool
Warm-up: 10 mins
- Share and discuss with students a selection of images by artists - the focus is on experimental approaches to drawing and making marks.
- Ask children to get up and active on the spot to some music for 30 seconds to stretch out the body!
Introduction: 10 mins
- Distribute to each child the drawing tools created in the previous lesson.
- Ask children to check their tool is still intact, invite them to re-assemble with masking tape if needed.
- Pass out ink/watered-down paint to the class.
Development: 30 mins - Try one or more of these options:
Outdoors on a large scale: children work in groups and draw onto taped wallpaper, experimenting with mark making with their tool. Children will dip their tool into a container of ink or diluted paint. Students will take turns to explore different marks they can make onto the paper with their tool.
Indoors on a large scale: Children will explore the same process as above, but in the classroom or school hall. Note: Ink can stain carpets so perhaps consider diluted paint instead!
Small scale: Children can explore mark-making individually with a range of unusual paper sources, such as the inside of cereal boxes, old newspapers etc. They should also make two pages of mark making experimenting in their notebooks.
- Ask children to swap drawing tools to experience a wide range of mark-making possibilities.
- Share and discuss with students a selection of images by artists - the focus is on experimental approaches to drawing and making marks.
- Ask children to get up and active on the spot to some music for 30 seconds to stretch out the body!
Introduction: 10 mins
- Distribute to each child the drawing tools created in the previous lesson.
- Ask children to check their tool is still intact, invite them to re-assemble with masking tape if needed.
- Pass out ink/watered-down paint to the class.
Development: 30 mins - Try one or more of these options:
Outdoors on a large scale: children work in groups and draw onto taped wallpaper, experimenting with mark making with their tool. Children will dip their tool into a container of ink or diluted paint. Students will take turns to explore different marks they can make onto the paper with their tool.
Indoors on a large scale: Children will explore the same process as above, but in the classroom or school hall. Note: Ink can stain carpets so perhaps consider diluted paint instead!
Small scale: Children can explore mark-making individually with a range of unusual paper sources, such as the inside of cereal boxes, old newspapers etc. They should also make two pages of mark making experimenting in their notebooks.
- Ask children to swap drawing tools to experience a wide range of mark-making possibilities.
Conclusion: 10 mins
-Discuss with children their experiences and the types of marks they created using the drawing tools. Which were more easy/difficult? Introduce descriptive vocabulary for the kinds of materials and the way they behave, mention absorbency of materials, the texture, whether they are organic or man-made.
-Take 5 minutes for children to write an account of the process and make some drawing in their notebooks.
-Encourage children to share their ideas for future drawing tools they can create using sustainable materials.
-Discuss with children their experiences and the types of marks they created using the drawing tools. Which were more easy/difficult? Introduce descriptive vocabulary for the kinds of materials and the way they behave, mention absorbency of materials, the texture, whether they are organic or man-made.
-Take 5 minutes for children to write an account of the process and make some drawing in their notebooks.
-Encourage children to share their ideas for future drawing tools they can create using sustainable materials.
