Just like there are different methods of education in all areas of education, so are there different methods to teach children and adults to draw. Drawing can be taught in a step by step fashion to almost anyone who wants to learn. It is a fallacy to think that only those that are born with drawing talent can draw. Most anyone can draw if taught the right way. It may not be as simple as just doing a bunch of collage project ideas, but there is more than one method to teach children and adults to draw.
For children to learn to draw it is important to learn about drawing development in children. When you know what you can expect of children at different ages then you will not expect too much or on the other hand too little. There are 2 different methods for teaching children and adults to draw.
drawing development in children
The best one to use for children would be the Monart method which is taught by Mona Brooks in her book Drawing with children. In her book she teaches children to recognize the five elements of shape that there are in the world. Once they know these elements and can copy them well onto paper then they are well on their way to copying real life objects.
For the adult sector there is someone named Betty Edwards who wrote a book call Drawing on the right Side of the Brain. In her method she teaches about the difference between the right and left brains. She says we are so used to using our left brains that we don’t know how to quiet it to draw. Once we train our left brains to be quiet so our right brains are what is dominant, then we can use the skills of our right brains to learn how to draw in a very competent fashion.
Children and Pictures: Drawing and Understanding
In Children and Pictures, Richard P. Jolley critiques both the historical and contemporary studies conducted in the field of children’s making and understanding of pictures.Some highlights of Children and Pictures are:What develops, and why, in children’s representational and expressive drawing, both in typical, atypical, and cross-cultural populations.The developing relationship between production and comprehension of pictures.Children’s understanding of pictures as symbolic representations.Practical and applied uses of drawings, particularly in clinical and legal settings.Diverse educational practices of teaching drawing across the world.Presenting up-to-date research and pointing towards future topics of study, Children and Pictures brings the study of children’s drawings into mainstream child development studies. This is an edifying resource for students, researchers, practitioners, parents, artists, and educators in the field.
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