Drawing With Children: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too
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Product NameDrawing With Children: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too
ManufacturerPutnam Publishing Group
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TitleDrawing With Children: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too
ISBN0874778271
Author(s)Mona Brookes
Release DateJune, 1996, 1996-06-01
FormatPaperback
Num of Pages272
Num. of Items1
EAN9780874778274
Weight0.5 lbs.
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5 Star Rating  "Art Book/Drawing w/ Children"2009-10-21
- Reviewed By janenewman6
Very inspiring, colorful resource material for kids & their teachers, parents.
A great find, arrived in great condition & in a timely manner.
 
5 Star Rating  "A book for ALL teachers!"2009-07-29
- Reviewed By User: ANC3SRIR954C2
Oh, if only EVERY teacher had a copy of this "how to" book! If teachers had their children drawing in every class, what a great eduction system we would have. Readers, please take the time to read the sections on "using drawing to teach other subjects!" And of course the enlightened "reaching special ed and at risk students." Take the time to create your own exercise sheets, and do the step by step drawing of the bird, lion, parrot, and horse and you will see the method and how it works. I have always been an artist and it is easy for me to see how powerful and exciting this teaching concept is. Thank you Mona for Monart!
 
4 Star Rating  "art teacher"2009-06-17
- Reviewed By User: A2753F6DFH9Y6W
I have a previously published book by Mona Brookes. I liked it very much, and purchased this issue to get a better insight in teaching pre school aged children. It was very helpful, while not providing specific lesson plans for my 26+ group( what would), it gave me simpler processes and approaches to help me out. I very much reccommend this book for anyone looking for ways to draw and teaching/seeingto many different age groups.
 
5 Star Rating  "Very worthwhile teaching tool"2008-12-21
- Reviewed By User: A1H6JJ1E6P9DOL
I used this book 3 years ago with a group of teachers who were interested in improving their art instruction. We found that it vastly improved our own drawing skills. I like that the specific instructions for drawing techniques really helped my students (grade 3 to 5) to express themselves through their drawing in a very satisfying way!
 
4 Star Rating  ""when you read you begin with A, B, C; when you draw you begin with dot, circle, straight line, curved line, angle line""2008-11-30
- Reviewed By User: A2DB720I9XRX7K
Mona Brookes' "Drawing with Children" is one of three book which I purchased--the others being "Art for the Absolute Beginner" and "Art for the Utter and Absolute Beginner"--to get myself back into drawing, an activity which I enjoyed as a young person. Each book is different, and I have learned from each of them.

Brookes begin with the premise that art can be taught, even to very young kids (toddlers) by teaching them to observe and reproduce the "Five Elements of Shape": dot, circle, straight line, curved line, and angle line. By this she does NOT mean the five basic shapes--which I interpret to mean the shapes of whole objects--an orange is a sphere, my computer is a cube (sort of), and so on--but rather the direction your pencil must follow to outline the subject which you are drawing. For example, when I draw a bird (there's lots of birds in the book), I draw a dot for the eye, surrounded by a circle; then I draw a curved line for the head, an angle line for the beak, and so on. Oddly (to me) each and every drawing starts with the animal's eye, or the center of the object to be drawn.

This way of looking at drawing focuses on the outline of objects, rather than the basic forms which make up the object. She seems to have had much success with this method. My cat is asleep on the chair as I write this; he's curled up in a ball. Traditionally I would see him as a ball for his body and then a smaller ball representing his head, his long, tubular tail, and so on, sketching these general forms lightly on my paper. Then I would sketch some details of "sub-parts" that make up my cat, his oblong face, the curve of his haunches, the triangle of his ears, and so on, for guidelines. I would then move on to the details of his features: the shape of his mouth, the stripes in his fur, his whiskers; so that I can make an accurate rendering of him. I'd have to take into account such things as what direction the light is shining on him from, the shadows his body makes on the chair, the roundness of his form.

"Monart" would have me draw a "curved line" for his body, until I get to the ears, then an "angled line", more curved line, then a straight line for his leg sticking out, and so on. The first couple of lessons show photographs of subjects to draw as well as a simplified line drawing. The student is guided to follow the outline of the subject by seeing and drawing the "elements of drawing". I had good success reproducing the drawings--level one through three-except for the carousel horse, which was a miserable failure. I believe that, in cases like this, it is more effective to use the blocking method described above, where you first observe and sketch the general forms that make up the animal, using that as a guideline to fill in the details.

That said, I do like the results I have been having with this approach. I can easily draw several types of tropical birds, and follow the outlines of still life subjects. The drawings by children before and then after a few lesson are awesome, as are the color plates. The drawing preliminaries have helped me to relax and focus, so I feel more confident and ready. And I like how she gives lots of practice to drawing the elements, in increasing complexity, that guide even small children to build these skills that lead up to drawing. I've had fun with the coloring. Yeah, I know, I've got to get back to work with topics like perspective, light source, and other stuff. But for now I am "Drawing with Children".
 
5 Star Rating  "My kid learned nothing, but Look at ME!"2008-09-18
- Reviewed By User: A3EJNSFZPOW0TT

Home school, two years ago, I failed horribly teaching this to my son who was "not at all interested" and didn't apply himself. However, I who have never even doodled, trained my eye to see shape and flow of line in everything. Look at me now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindielee/
I started with stick figures and great embarrassment - forget ever playing pictionary!

Total lessons in last two years:
One Adult Ed. Summer Class - 8 sessions aprox.
One Prophetic Art Class - 6 sessions
Endless online free lessons and utube tutorials a four month period.

Honestly, I started with stick figures.
This book has been invaluable to me, try it, train your eye and experience the joy of drawing!
 
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