Art

Hi Rachel,

I have used Drawing with Children. The program is founded on the study of the basic elements of shape that are broken into families, the dot and circle families and the line families. I found it very insightful and useful in the instruction of myself. The author is teaching very young children these methods and is succeeding, however I was not entirly able to digest it and give it to my children in a way that made us completely successful with it.(ages 4 and 6 at the time) I adapted much of the instruction to “fit” our style of art time. We enjoyed the exercises of looking for specific shapes in a given area or specific object. I think it is very good in helping one to develope a habit of studying a picture in a new way… It may be time for me to try this again as my children are a bit older now (6 and 8). It is suggested in the book to give and hour of complete silence to allow the children to work through the instruction. This was not consistent for me with our other study and I never tried to implement this much time to the subject. I have been considering Draw Write Now as an art program… possibly more doable for us at this point as I have a toddler and infant in the house as well. I would recommend this for an older student that can read and work through the information for themselves. It breaks down the whole into parts that simplify the creative process..

Hope this helps you!

Heather in MO

I’m not sure this will be helpful, but I just found out this weekend that Mona Brooks has founded a franchise. There are numerous studios across the continent. The website is monart.com.