- white paper
- markers
- ruler and pencil
- charcoal
zondag 5 juli 2009
Opart like Vaserely
zaterdag 4 juli 2009
Crazy monkey's
- white drawing sheets
- colour pencils
- scissors and glue
- green or yellow sheets for background
We always have to laugh about monkey's; maybe because they look so much like us!
In this lesson we're going to draw monkey's and add some extra funny details. Look at monkey photographs first. What do they look like - lenth of arms and legs, size of the head, eyes, nose etc. CHildren draw a frame on their sheet about 2 cm from the sides. The instruction is: draw a hanging monkey with two or three funny details. Examples: an Ipod, clothes, or jewellery . Draw your monkey as big as possible, but stay within the frame. Next: draw a jungle background, with climbing plants, tree trunks, big leaves and exotic fruit. Vervolgens wordt een oerwoudachtige achtergrond getekend: slingerplanten, grote varens, takken, boomstammen, grote bladeren, vruchten. Some of those leaves or branches may stick out of the frame. Colour the drawing with natural colours. Make sure the complete sheet is coloured, there will be no more white! Cut out the drawing (watch for the outsticking details) and glue it on a green or yellow sheet.
woensdag 24 juni 2009
Show me your shoes
Made by Anne, 10 years old
You need:
- white drawingpaper
- coloured pencils
- scissors
- glue
- coloured paper for background
By Jetse, 12 years old
zondag 21 juni 2009
Guardian angels of the woods
- white drawing paper
- colour pencils
After telling a story about the protector of the woods, who hide themselves between the trees and bushes, children draw their own wood guardian angels. Those can be anything they think of: an angel, a ghost, a fairy or maybe even an animal. The colours should of course be natural colours: green, yellow, red, brown and mixtures of them. Hide your guardian angel between the trees, drawing a lot of leaves around it.
maandag 15 juni 2009
Comic strip language
You need:
- white drawing paper from 10 by 10 centimetres
- white drawing paper from 30 by 30 centimetres
- tempera paint
- felt pens
- black markers
- brushes
Comic strip drawers use a special way to reproduce sounds. They realise a special effect with letters or words. We call this an onomatopeia or sound-imitation.
There is always a black frame around the comic strip pictures. Sometimes you'll see the a part of the drawing outside of the frame. Ask sour students to take their favourite comic strips. Look for examples of sound-imitations and talk about them: SPLASH (falling water), TOINK (someone who bumps his head). Those sound-imitations are often combined with a movement or direction. You can notice this if you look at the shape or direction of the letters, or even at the letters themselves. Often you'll see matching symbols around a word, like litte stars for someone who bumped his head or drops of water around the word SPLASH. Students design a comic strip picture with a sound. They have to draw a concept first on the little sheet. When finished and satisfied with the concept, students take a bigger sheet from 30 with 30 centimentres. On this sheet they have to draw a frame (use a ruler!) about 1 centimetre from the sides. Outside this frame the drawing has to remain white, like in comic strips. After this children have to enlarge their concept. If it is to difficult, they can draw a grid on their sheet first (squares from 3 by 3 centimetres). Drawing and words have to be coloured with feltpens. The background and other great parts can be painted with tempera. Tell children to choose bright colours, so don't mix to much. At last outline all lines with a black marker.
zondag 14 juni 2009
Beautiful butterflies
- white drawing paper
- tempera
- brushes
- glue and scissors
- coloured paper for background
dinsdag 9 juni 2009
Black and white prints
You need:
- two pieces of linoleum from 10 x 10 cm
- lino knive
- mat
- block printing ink in black and white
- flat piece of glass
- linoleum roller
- white paper A4 size
- black papier A4 size
- lino press
Made by students from 10-11 years old
maandag 8 juni 2009
Athletes and their shadows
You need:
- plywood plate on A4 size
- coping saw
- sandpaper
- carbon paper
- pencil
- strong glue
- black construction paper for background
- tempera and brushes
zondag 7 juni 2009
Waterlilies like Claude Monet
You need:
- tissue paper in different colors
- white drawing sheet (A4 size)
- glue
zaterdag 6 juni 2009
Face in the mirror
- coloured construction paper
- scissors and glue
- cutter and mat
donderdag 4 juni 2009
Animal silhouette
- white drawing sheet, A3
- tempera and brushes
- pictures of animal furs and side views of the corresponding animals
- black construction paper
- scissors and glue
For this task the children search the internet for photos of animal fur. The photographs have to be printed in colour. Then they paint the fur as accurately as possible on the white sheet. While drying, children can look for pictures of the animal from which they just painted the fur. This picture has to be a side view.
Print the animal and use a copier to enlarge it. The animal picture must fit on the painting of the fur.
Put the picture of the animal on black paper and tape it down. Then cut exactly along the outer lines of the image, while cutting the black paper also. Glue the silhouette on the painting.
woensdag 3 juni 2009
Growing landscape
You need
- drawing sheets A 3
- tempera
- brushes and water
- photographs (or parts of them) from landscapes
A little piece from a landscape picture or a complete photograph (look for them in travel guides) will make a beautiful painting! Glue the litte piece somewhere on your sheet and paint the landscape as you imagine it would be!
dinsdag 2 juni 2009
Proud as a peacock
Made by students of grade 5
You need:- photographs from peacocks
- peacock feathers
- white drawing sheet
- wasco crayons
- watercolour paint
- blue or green construction paper
zondag 31 mei 2009
zaterdag 30 mei 2009
Moving around
You need:
- white drawing paper A4 size
- black finepointed markers
- markers in three different colours
- black construction paper for background
Movement, that is what this lesson is about. Give each child a rough leaf. Ask some children in your classroom to show different 'frozen' attitudes: running, cheering, catching a ball, kneeling. The other students draw this postures on their rough leaf. Their character has only to consist of a circle (head) and stripes for arms, torso and legs. The goal of this lesson is not to draw good-looking people, but only the attitude. If these droodles are okay, children fill their sheet with moving people. Again: draw simple figures consisting of a circle and scrawled arms and legs. The figures should not overlap, but there should be as much as possible on the drawing sheet. Allow children to draw first with pencil, and if the figures are good, they go over it with a fineliner.
When the sheet is filled up with moving figures, the spots between the people have to be coloured. Use only three different colours feltpens. The spots may not touch each other, there must even be a white border between the faces. Also around the puppets remain white. Keep a white border of about half a cm free all around the whole work. This will look nice on a black background.
Finally paste the picture on a black sheet of paper.
donderdag 28 mei 2009
A field full of sunflowers
By student of grade 4
You need:
- oil pastel crayons
- coloured ink
- brushes
- white drawing paper A4 size
- green paper for background
woensdag 27 mei 2009
Ocean animals
- white drawing paper A4 format
- blue markers
- coloured paper for background
After a class discussion about animals in the ocean (and there are much more than just fish!), children draw an animal of their choice. The animal is drawn largely and has to be kept white (of course there may be in eyes etc.). After this the background has to be filled with lines in different patterns. Use only blue feltpens or markers, to support the ocean effect.
dinsdag 26 mei 2009
Cow's day
You need:
- white drawing sheet A3 size
- construction paper for background
- tempera paint or oilpastels
maandag 25 mei 2009
It's me in the mirror
You need:
- digital photo camera
- white drawing sheets
- coloured pencils
- photograph of back of the head, shoulders and stretching arm
- aluminium foil
- big mirror on the wall
- some hand mirrors
- scissors and glue
If you want to see the back of yourself, you'll need two mirrors. By using a hand mirror you can see the back of your head back in a mirror on the wall.
We're going to practice with the mirrors. Children look at their own backs with two mirrors and will discover they nevertheless can see their front also!
All children get two printed photographs of themselves: one with the back of the head/shoulders/stretched hand with handmirror, and one photograph of their face. The 'back'photo has to be used to copy. Draw yourself at the left of the sheet. Copy the stretched hand as well as you can. After this they draw the background: the bathroom or maybe the bedroom. The hand mirror has to be drawn bigger, because the photograph has to fit!
Aluminium foil has to be glued on the handmirror (shining side up). Cut out the photograph of the face, and glue this on the foil.
zaterdag 23 mei 2009
Printing with you hands
- black tempera
- glass plate
- paint roller
- sheets A4 size in different colours
- glue and scissors