I looked over my blog the other day and realized that we haven’t been carrying on with "Drawing with Children" like I had planned for us to do. So last night I pulled out the lesson plan, and the book, and saw what comes next. My usual hang up is needing photo copies of the examples in the book for each person drawing (photocopy permission for one class does come with the book) The cheap little copy shop is closed for business, and the library charges $.10 a copy. Excuses, excuses.
Anyway, I decided that all three of us could just reference the exercises in the middle of the table, because they were abstract, so it didn’t matter if we drew them sideways or up side down. The book warned that volume drawing could be stressful at first for students, because it was new, so to be extra sure that everyone did warm up stretches and relaxation exercises. So out came the quite classical music CD, the old booster seat for M, the tall bathroom footstool for M, the short bathroom footstool for B (come to think of it, if it helps him sit up strait for drawing, maybe he should use it at the kitchen table when he writes there too…hmm) and we did the scripted stretches and wiggles from Chapter 3.
I actually liked volume drawing better than contour drawing, because I had a second change to get the border between sections adjusted if my "confidence of line" was off, as long as I could adjust the border with the darker marker.
We were so quiet and absorbed that everyone felt peaceful. Even my late pregnancy yuck backache is better. Ahh.