Good morning! Please be sure to complete the French and Maths activities before the Art. They have just gone up in the wrong order! 👀
Art
Art
Please keep your art work over our home
learning time. You will have a lovely
collection!
How to
show movement in drawing
During the early part of the Spring term, you will remember we learned a
lot about the Ancient Greeks. You did
some wonderful artwork, such as your masks and the scratch vases. One of the many things we can thank the
Ancient Greeks for, you will remember, is the Olympics, which inspired some images on our vases and our
plans to learn how to draw movement. We
hadn’t got to it at school yet, but we can now!
Drawing a person moving is easier than you might think. It can be shown in just a few simple lines to
start with, then just adding to it.
Let’s look at this clip below. You might like to watch this one in full first,
as it is just 3 minutes long, so you can see the result quickly. She does do some rubbing out because of the
clear board she is using, but what I want you to do instead is to sketch very lightly as you go, of
course pausing it as you continue with your pencil. (So there should be no need to rub out anything, as it will be light lines so far on your paper.)
Don’t be afraid to have
several goes on the same page! That
will really help you!
Watch carefully and importantly, have fun drawing!
Below is another helpful clip. Start
your own drawing when the artist does and pause
it as you continue drawing with her steps.
I like how she reminds you to sketch (you know this is the opposite of pressing hard!):
“If
you don’t like something, don’t worry about stopping and erasing it, just go
over and sketch over it…”
You know I've said the same in class many times! 😊
I really hope you'll enjoy learning how to draw movement this week, starting with people, but don't forget to keep practising long after this week is finished! EVERYBODY can draw, never worry about comparing yourself to someone else. We can all improve with practice, that goes with everything!
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