"Art at the Center" Celebrates World Drawing Day
~ Reposted from the "Art at the Center's" NewsletterWe will have a variety of drawing activities at the studio on June 5 from 1 to 2:30 to celebrate World Drawing Day. Click here to read more about this world wide event and the many forums to post drawings on-line.
If you can't make it to the studio, here are a few ways to celbrate World Drawing Day in your home or community:
Blind Contour Drawing - A great exercies to practice seeing edges, details and lines. This involveds drawing something with a continuous line (a contour) without looking at the paper (it's blind). The idea is for pencil to follow on the paper the path of your eyes looking at what you are drawing. Drawings come out mixed up and comical with portraits looking like characatures.
Scribble Drawing - Scribble on a piece of paper with or without looking, just create random lines. Then go back and turn your paper and look at the lines from many angles looking for images in your drawing. Add lines, colors, details to bring out these images.
Joint Scribble Drawing - Similar to a scribble drawing but work with a partner. One person draws the scribble while the other attempts to follow the lines with a second color. Look together to find and enhance images in your design.
Family Draiwng - Cover your dining room or kitchen table with paper and and draw together - make a plan or just see what emerges as you work together to cover the paper with lines, shapes, and colors.
Draw from the Inside Out - Often we focus on outlines when beginning a drawing, this technique encourages beginning with the detials. Choose an object to draw (things from nature work well, a flower or a pine cone) and begin by drawing a detail in the center; build your drawing out from this beginning.
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