How to Draw Im a Bananna Art Hub for Kids
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Cassie: I have noticed that at that place are certain things in art education, maybe it's just elementary art education, I don't know, only there are certain things in art education where I feel as though we're kind of pressured to pick a side. For case, you lot're either TAB, instruction for artistic behavior, or non-TAB. You're either choice-based or non-option-based. You're either project-based or not-project-based, and I cannot tell you how much I detest that.
I hate the idea that nosotros, equally art teachers, as creatives, are trying to paint ourselves into a corner, then to speak. In a way, saying that you have to pick a side, pick a team, and then you've got to stick and play past all the rules of that particular playbook. You lot meliorate not even think well-nigh venturing outside of that little corner you lot painted yourself in, considering if you exercise, then you're no longer a part of our team.
That drives me bananas. That'southward one of my biggest pet peeves about art educational activity. I don't know where that trend started, simply I'1000 challenging me and all of y'all to kind of debunk that and break that. And 1 affair, ane method of teaching that I oftentimes feel gets a bad rap from all sides of art education is guided drawing. Some people hate it. They experience similar it kind of pigeonholes kids. Other people think that it'southward only a fashion for kids … throw-away art time, so to speak. Personally, I love me some guided drawing, and and so practice my students. I'm going to share with you the pros and the cons, and now how I've worked around those cons to really brand guided drawing work for my students in my art room. And maybe, you know, you lot'll desire to requite it a shot likewise. This is Cassie Stephens, and this is Everyday Art Room.
So I start became familiar with guided drawing my very beginning year of teaching. I don't know that I chosen it guided drawing or that'due south what information technology was called back so. All I remembered was that my first year pedagogy I was in my portable trailer, detached from the school, without a clue as to what I was doing, and all I had were these three-band binders filled with lessons that were only a niggling bit too wide open up for a teacher who actually needed to have her mitt held. I hateful, equally a first-twelvemonth teacher, I didn't take a inkling. As a 20th-yr a instructor, I still don't have a clue, only dorsum and then it was a lot more than difficult for me, and I remember going to the library constantly just scouring for books. One book that I came across that I know I've shared with you many times before was Drawing with Children past Mona Brookes.
It really opened my eyes because suddenly, in the pages of this book, I could meet all of the possibilities of what children could do and what they could create. It was more simply giving them a piece of paper and telling them to draw. Information technology was showing them how to describe, the steps to be successful at cartoon. Only looking through the book, I thought, "This isn't possible. How could I possibly get my students to the same level?" And just kind of going through the book and just seeing how she broke everything down step past step, I thought maybe this is something I could endeavour in my classroom. And when I did, I was successful in pedagogy. My students were successful in their creations. They were really proud of their piece of work, and I was really excited. So that'due south kind of how I was introduced to guided drawing.
Now, 20 years later on, information technology'due south a tool in my toolbox of art teachering methods. I don't use it a lot, but I practice apply it, and so I want to talk about the cons that I've heard about guided drawing, the things that I've heard people say that is the reason for steering articulate of it, and and so I'yard going to debunk those cons. At to the lowest degree, why I retrieve they're nonsense. That's nonsense. I'g going to debunk it. At least, debunk it for my world.
And so the first con that I sometimes hear well-nigh guided cartoon is that it's too restricted, besides restrictive, and information technology puts too much-unwanted force per unit area on a child or a young artist to kind of achieve this gold standard. Some other con that I've heard is that it shows students that there'south only one way to describe, that if you don't depict something in this very strict and formulaic way, then it'due south not going to be correct. And the other thing that I've heard is that information technology doesn't allow for inventiveness. At that place's no wiggle room.
Okay, and then here is how I'grand going to deflate those cons, because I believe in that location's some truth to them, peculiarly if you don't teach guided cartoon correctly, or if you do teach it in too restrictive of a fashion, or y'all are putting too much force per unit area on your students. So hither's how I get around those kind of negative feelings, considering I never want that to exist my students' experience in the art room. So the i thing that I do earlier we always venture into a guided cartoon project, which, like I said, that'due south but a tool in my toolbox. It'south not the merely method of creating in my room, definitely not the only method. It's just one of many.
I of them is, is I always tell my students this at the very beginning before nosotros depict: we are going to draw together. Nosotros are going to be hearing the same set of directions together, but considering we are all unlike and because we are all unique artists, fifty-fifty though we're all going to hear the same matter, the way our imagination and our creativity takes what nosotros hear and puts information technology on that newspaper, it's all going to be unlike and unique. So whatever I am drawing, I don't want that same affair to appear on your paper because yous are a unlike artist than me. If I had wanted the very same thing, well, then I would accept just gone and made copies of information technology. I really encourage my students to embrace those mistakes, those "mistakes", because that'southward what they'll telephone call them when they see something that looks dissimilar than what you lot accept drawn.
A great book maybe to share with them before you practise a guided drawing experience, something that we read at the beginning of each year, is a Cute Oops!, and that's what we refer to a drawing or a niggling line or a smudge that they might not have wanted, and it doesn't quite lucifer what I'thousand drawing, simply hey, information technology's a cute oops. How can I now accept that and make this a part of my own unique cartoon?
Another way that I've gotten around having my students feel unwanted pressure is this. I call these drawings, whenever we exercise a guided drawing together, I call them our practice drawings and simply maxim, "Hey. This is but a sketch. This is but a do drawing. If you are not happy with it, side by side art form, when you come up in, that paper, that cartoon yous made, that will be your guide, and you can try it again," and that immediately just kind of lets their shoulders release, puts their mind at ease, and lets them know that they don't have to put a lot of pressure on themselves every bit they're drawing. And what I've noticed is, is that my students will sometimes become hung up on … Specially my older kids … one tiny petty thing, and if I just say, "Relax. It's a do drawing. Side by side time you come in, y'all can practise a brand new one," 99% of the time when they come up dorsum to art class, they've completely forgotten whatever fiddling line or "mistake" that they've fabricated and they're happy with their drawing. Simply if they're not, and so, of course, I give them that pick.
I also have plant that dry erase boards are great … Peculiarly with my older kids. It's e'er my older students, I have constitute, that put more pressure on themselves. My younger friends, my kindergarten and first, and sometimes fifty-fifty my second graders, they are just having a blast, being excited that they're actually drawing something that they're recognizing and they're able to follow along with their friends and with me. My older students, and y'all know, you middle school teachers out there, you definitely know this. They put so much pressure on themselves. And so if you let them draw forth with you with a dry out erase board, so they tin can fix the trivial things they're not happy with as they go, and and then take that dry out erase board with them back to their seat as they follow forth with their own drawing and recreate information technology on a piece of newspaper.
So those are kind of some petty stress relievers I've also added, and when my students draw, when we're drawing on paper, nosotros either utilize sharpies or nosotros use pencils without erasers. Otherwise, you're going to accept students who are constantly erasing. And again, if they're saying, "Well, I demand an eraser," just remind them, "No, you don't. Flip your paper over if you experience like information technology, but keep in heed, this is simply your do drawing," and that actually does assist them relax.
Now, another thing to do … or another reason I love guided cartoon is that I can introduce and then much vocabulary, and also show the application of that vocabulary. Then if I'yard talking to my students about lines and shapes, especially my younger friends, I tin can utilize those words when we're cartoon. All right, nosotros're going to find the heart of our paper. We are going to describe a vertical line. All of a sudden, not only are they hearing the word, but they're seeing it and they're also drawing it. At present we are going to brand a parallel line. So this is why I find guided drawing to be so great, considering I can share with my students the application of the vocabulary nosotros've been learning. It's also wonderful for ESL kids. I have a high population of ESL friends, and so it'south crawly for them to see, hear, and practise those vocabulary words.
As you guys know, because I share a lot, I do a lot of call and response. Then a lot of times, when I'grand doing a guided drawing with my students, I will practise it where they picket me. So they do what I practice. For example, I call information technology a game, and I'll say, "When my pencil is in my mitt, your pencil or whatever drawing device we're using has to be on the floor. Every bit soon as you see me put my pencil downward, that ways you can option your pencil up and follow along with me or do what I just did."
What this does is it prevents your kids from trying to gauge the side by side pace then maybe not drawing what you'd had in mind, or not going the direction that you had planned on taking them, and it too means they're going to pay closer attention to what y'all just drew and then have greater success when they try to draw it on their paper. And then their indicate to me when they're finished drawing is they take to put their pencil down. When I see all pencils down, I know I tin option mine up and show the next stride. And when I'chiliad introducing that to the kids at the get-go of our drawing, nosotros play a lilliputian game and I will say, "Okay, whenever you see my hand touching my pencil or picking it upwardly, you have to put yours down." So I'll pick mine upwards. They put theirs downwardly. I'll pretend I'm near to put mine down. They start to selection theirs up and I'thousand like, "Ah, I gotcha." So it's a fun little thing to do right at the start so they understand pencils downwards, and what that volition mean is that yous will have more attention and eyes on you lot.
Not only is guided cartoon a great style to innovate vocab and the application of vocabulary, only it's too super amazing for sharing with students the elements of art. Expect, we're using lines. Now those lines are connecting, creating shapes. Here's how we tin can create pattern, texture, form, and space, all of these things as you're pouring these words into their head. You're showing them, look, we're using those magical ingredients of art to create our work of art.
I also recall it's a really good style for students to understand how to become about drawing. I remember existence a child, and I had this How to Draw book, and it was How to Draw Dogs. I loved dogs growing upwards. And information technology'south kind of similar that funny cartoon that I've seen floating around Facebook where it'south like how to draw something extremely complicated, like a running equus caballus, and information technology shows like draw two lines, describe two circles, and blast. The adjacent affair you know, the next page is this amazingly cute, realistically shaded, galloping horse, and that's kind of how this How to Draw Dogs book was for me as a child. A couple of lines, a couple of shapes, and side by side matter yous know, it's like the most epic dog drawing always, and I simply, I love to look at the book, but I could never make it happen for me. I could never make that connexion. And I think a lot of my, and probably yours, young artists struggle with that.
Some kids, it simply comes naturally. They tin can see those lines, they tin can plow them into shapes, they can create them into something realistic, merely nearly people demand to be shown how that works to really make that happen. So I think when you are doing guided drawing with your students, information technology's a dandy way to segue into showing them how y'all tin can use these steps, how yous can pause down something that y'all're trying to depict, into simple lines and shapes and textures and value to create any it is you lot're trying to draw. Then sometimes when yous take a simple guided drawing, yous tin can then get onto something like observational drawing, and allowing them to meet those lines and shapes, and then moving on to fifty-fifty more than difficult things. Then that'southward ane of the other reasons that I dearest guided drawings. Y'all're guiding them through that experience of being able to use the elements of art to create their work of art.
And when you do that … Gosh, if you've always done guided drawing with your kids, then you know the conviction that they have. Just the sense of pride. They suddenly are like, "Oh, my goodness, I am an creative person," and information technology might be something that they've never felt. They've never had that amazing connection with their drawing earlier to realize, wow, I actually can use a pencil and paper and brand something look realistic, make something look similar a recognizable object or a thing or a cartoon character. Of course, to do this, some of my favorite resources, How to Draw books. I just don't recommend that one detail How to Draw a Dog volume, if you know the ane I'm referring to, but there are some amazing books out there. Merely sometimes I really remember that after doing a guided drawing, it helps to then show the kids those How to Draw books so that they understand, look, the How to Describe volume is doing the very same affair. It's breaking it down into simple steps to show you the lines and shapes to create a cartoon.
A lot of times when my students will apply How to Describe books if we oasis't talked about how to go virtually using that book, it's simply similar how I felt when I was a child. It's merely too much information. They don't understand how it's cleaved downward. It's role of our job to show them how that works so they tin can be successful with that.
Of course, I love showing videos. Though I dear showing the ones that I've fabricated where I've done some guided drawings with my kids, merely Art Hub for Kids is easily down probably the best, at to the lowest degree co-ordinate to my students, guided drawing videos to share in the fine art room. If e'er you're having a day where … or if yous have a sub or a day where maybe kids are finishing projects upwards, or yous have a shortened half day and y'all need a quick lesson, I would really recommend throwing that kind of experience at them because Fine art Hub for Kids and other How to Depict videos, it's a smashing way for them to be drawing on their ain at dwelling house.
Of course, I love to employ but regular books as inspiration. One of my favorite activities to exercise is to read Don't Allow The Dove Drive The Charabanc! I exercise this every year with my kindergartners doing Read Beyond America Week considering, of class, you know your girl has a clothes for it. I have a Don't Let The Dove Drive The Jitney! wearing apparel. I wear that, I read the book, and so nosotros employ lines and shapes to create our very own pigeon, and that I know for certain is a video on my YouTube channel, and it's something where all of my students are super stoked and excited. And of class, more recently, when I dressed equally ROY M BIV, I had my students, kindergarten on upwards through second, all draw a portrait of ROY G BIV, which was a lot of fun because then information technology just kind of not only boosts their confidence with cartoon, just it just reminded them of why we're learning ROY G BIV and the order of the colors of the rainbow.
So that'south why I'm just a fan of guided cartoon. Every bit I said, we do all sorts of unlike kinds of projects in my room, open-concluded projects, projects where I kind of have an idea of what the artwork will look like at the stop, and sometimes I don't, more open-ended projects. We have days in my art room where it's open up choice, free choice in the art room, and other days when we're going to be post-obit along with me. And I experience like giving your students a really well-rounded art experience, not just all of ane or all of the other, because educational activity, in general, is not blackness and white, just there are so many dissimilar colors of the teachering rainbow, especially the art teachering rainbow, that I feel like we would be doing our students a real disservice if nosotros didn't share all aspects, or every bit much every bit we can, with our students. Guided drawing, I feel similar, is one of those groovy teaching tools that we could all use in our art room.
Tim: Hello, this is Tim Bogatz from Art Ed Radio. Simply a quick reminder that you can discover all things related to Everyday Art Room on the Art of Ed website nether the podcasts tab. You will notice the full transcript of every show, links to Cassie's blog, AOE manufactures, and other resource that can aid your teaching. It's all at theartofed.com under the podcast tab. Y'all can also sign up to receive weekly emails whenever a new episode is released. Now let'southward get you back to Cassie as she opens up the mailbag.
Cassie: Let's take a little dip into the mailbag, shall We? This outset question is, how do you get your kids to take pride in their work instead of trying to rush through it to exist done with information technology? This is a great question because I know that so many of us, all of us, have this issue with our kids, and it's funny considering I was just having a chat with my school guidance counselor almost this. I was hanging up some artwork in the hallway, and she said that she'd been chatting with the fourth graders considering she was doing art with them in her room. Yay, I love that she was doing art with them. And she noticed that they were kind of rushing through things, and she said to them, "How is it that when I see your artwork hung upwardly by Ms. Stephens that it doesn't look like this?" And they told her, "Well, that's because Ms. Stephens won't allow us practice artwork that mode."
And then when I had them in my room the next day, we had a little scrap of a chat about that, because I really wanted … I don't want them to but have good craftsmanship in my room. I want them to have expert craftsmanship and a sense of pride, period, always. And it's funny. And so we started talking about that in my room, and I said, "Well, why practice you lot guys practice that? Why exercise y'all effort a little harder in here as opposed to everywhere else?" And they said, "Well, because we know that y'all won't take it and yous'll have u.s.a. redo it," and so one of my students, my genius little kiddos said, "And if we accept to redo it, well, then nosotros're just using more time anyway, so we should merely exercise it correct the showtime time, even if it takes united states of america longer." Slow clap.
And it was and so that I said, "Oh, my goodness, you're so correct," and then nosotros had a large long conversation most that, about doing it right, giving it your all, doing your very best the kickoff time. Then you're going to accept a piece of work of fine art that you're proud of, and your mean and rotten art teacher, AKA Ms. Stephens, isn't going to have you lot go back, erase, redo because she knows that you have the potential for swell, nifty things. And that's what I tell them all the time. I know what a great creative person yous are. Yous might not know information technology, you might not believe it, but I know, and so I'one thousand going to hold you accountable for that.
I have no qualms whatever with having kids become back and redo. I don't buy into that, "Well, I want it that way," all that much. I hateful, if I genuinely believe it, just you guys can olfactory property a rat. You lot know when your kids are just pulling your leg, trying to become out of it. Especially in my room, we have some really fun early finisher stations. If my kids are really champing at the chip to go to those early finisher stations, you meliorate believe I shut those down real quick when I run across kiddos rushing through artwork to become do something like that. That'southward a slap-up question. One I recollect that all of us would love to know a little fleck more than about, and so cheers for that one.
My side by side question is this. These are from Instagram, by the way. I recently threw out there on the Instagrams if y'all had a question for me, and I got a huge amount of questions back and then I thought I would share with you a couple of those questions and those responses, and this question is: I'm studying to become an art instructor. Anything I should know ahead of time? I'm going to give y'all my list. Number 1, first loving the gustation of cold java. You're non going to similar intentionally get out and get common cold coffee, but by the fourth dimension y'all cascade yourself a cup of coffee and so go about prepping supplies, pouring paint, cutting paper, and then you lot finally relocate that java, it'south going to be cold as water ice, and that's probably all you're going to become for the residuum of the day, and then y'all might equally well bask it.
Number two, first loving the taste of a common cold, half-eaten, pigment-stained burrito. For some reason, in my room, I have 30 minutes for lunch, and and so I have back-to-dorsum classes. I don't have no time to be sitting down in the teacher's lounge waiting in that line to microwave my food, and so relish it, and then run back down to my room. That's but not something that exists in my art teachering earth, so my favorite repast is a burrito. I call back they are like the all-time invention ever. I can walk around with it, go stuff ready. The problem is, is that sometimes there'due south pigment on my hands or I mis-locate. Is that a thing? I dislocate, I know I don't dislocate my burrito. I don't know where I placed it, simply to have students observe it later. I never eat it once they've brought it upwards to me. That'due south disgusting.
Showtime loving having paint and mysterious objects and things under your nails. You're never going to want to pay coin for a manicure because your nails, and whatever mysterious items that y'all have underneath them, they're ever going to look shabby-chic. Just in the summer are yous going to accept nails that you're going to exist proud of. And terminal simply not least, go set up for the most thrilling, exhausting, emotional roller coaster of a job at that place ever was, and enjoy every minute of it, especially your get-go year teaching. You are going to learn then stinking much. If you accept a question for me, feel gratuitous to ship them my mode. You can find me at the Everyday Fine art Room at theartofed.com.
So exercise you want to know who the male parent of guided drawing was? Well, okay, then it wasn't guided drawing, but guided painting. Did I give you a little bit of a hint? If you're thinking Bob Ross, you're close, only it was really a gentleman named Neb Alexander, and I know this because every Dominicus my dad and I would watch Neb Alexander paint, and he was a lot like Bob Ross. He came before him, and he did the exact aforementioned affair, merely just without that finesse, that magic that Bob had, simply information technology was the same premise. Follow along with me, paint with me, and you'll terminate upwards with a magical masterpiece but like me. Well, my dad bought into it, hook, line, and sinker, and bought the kit.
And my dad is actually very artistic, merely because he tried and then hard to follow along so closely, he was simply never happy with his paintings or successful at it, and I call up they somewhen, simply all of the canvases and the palette knives and the evil-smelling oil paints, all concluded up in our basement. Only information technology'southward funny to me to think back on that, and how could anybody recollect annihilation negative of our main fuzzy-haired clasp, Bob Ross? If Bob Ross is going to practise guided painting, then past golly, I'm going to do some guided drawing in my art room. Thanks, guys. I hope you take a fantastic week.
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