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LESSON PLANS WINTER TERM 2022 (2nd half) Lesson 6 - A Fun Thing





...This is the last week of classes before the Christmas break. In it I'm asking my students to work their way through a drawing about which they can't know the completed image until they finish. It means they won't really know the importance of a certain mark or smudge until they finish and therefore can't ignore anything as they work their way through it!


Winter term, 2nd half 2022. Lesson 6. A Fun Thing! Using pen & colour pencils.


· You have an A4 sheet of paper folded into six equal sections. You’ll see an arrow on one side. It is from the arrow that you’ll begin.

· Unfold the first section without looking at any of the following sections. Fold the first section back so that you see only it.

· Working from left to right of your sketch-book page, copy that first section onto your page. However you decide to draw what you see, don’t leave anything that you notice – at this stage you have no idea how important (or not) the section you’re about to leave out might be!

· If left handed turn the folded page upside down with the arrow pointing right to left and begin on the right hand side of your page.

· When you’ve completed the first section, turn over to the next section and do that same. Work hard not to see any two sections together.

· When it comes to revealing the third section, it’s very hard to do so without seeing sections together so put it under the table as you turn to section three.

· If you see suitable places for colour, use colour pencils.

· In time you’ll see a cohesive drawing emerging. If you finish one drawing, I’ll give you another to follow.


Classes begin again in early March.

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I am an art teacher living and working in Dorset.  I have taught for the Adult Education Service and the University of Bath, plus some supply teaching in my local schools but now I run my courses privately. This site is intended as an addition to my teaching, primarily now to showcase the Sunday workshops I run.
 
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I run Sunday workshops, one every month and a short summer school.. Other than that I spend every available moment in my studio or drawing and painting elsewhere.
 
I studied for four years at The Slade School of Fine Art where I was awarded The Slade Prize on graduation. I went on to travel and study further finally doing a P.G.C.E at Exeter University with Ted Wragg as my mentor. It was a wonderful year of education which set me in good stead for my years of teaching since then.

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