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Tagged: Drawing with Children, Mona Brookes

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March 5, 2011 at 12:34 pm
alice
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Last year I bought both Drawing with Children, and Drawng with Older Children and Teens. I was thinking you use one book and then progress to the next one. However, as I’ve skimmed both books it looks like if you have one, you don’t need the other. Does anyone know this for sure? We have a very small house, and have too many books!! 🙂 If I don’t need both of them, then I want to sell the one.
Also, for those of you who have used Drawing with Children, HOW did you do it? There seems to be so much info, and I feel so unsure how to actually do the lessons with my children. My 7yo ds, really, really loves to draw. He’s either playing with Lego or drawing all day. I know if he was given some lessons he would probably love it even more…but I’m so uncertain how to do this. Since it’s not broken down into lessons I’m kind of scared to start! 🙂 Actually during the months of April and May I plan on going through the book myself, so I will be more familiar with it all when I start teaching it in June. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Thanks!
March 5, 2011 at 1:57 pm
suzukimom
Participant
First Answer….
The 2 books have a LOT of the same type of information, just designed for different ages… but there is some different information too. That said, you would probably only really need the one for younger kids.
As for HOW to do it… I have to admit that I’m too scared to start too!   There ARE lessons in the book though. It has a lesson – and then recommends you have them do other drawings like that – then there is another lesson. Oh, and each lesson is pretty long…
But I’ve found a couple of homeschool moms that have given more details – broken the book down into more lessons or ideas.
Here is a “Drawing With Children lessons”   http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/dwclp.htm
And here is a Drawing with Childre: Nature Journal Style” http://www.squidoo.com/drawingwithchildrennature
I am thinking that I might do the second one this summer, when we aren’t doing the “regular” subjects so much
March 5, 2011 at 2:03 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Oh, and I suspect that even if we just do the first exercies of drawing things with the basic 5 elements, it would hlep!
March 5, 2011 at 2:07 pm
simple home
Member
Alice,
I have the book and did some of it with my kids. It is very helpful in some ways, but we didn’t use ALL of the lessons. It is just too much for my time. But, I gleaned from it how to teach certain concepts and it is a great foundation!
Here is a good lesson plan breakdown for the book if you do want to teach it entirety in one year…
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/dwclp.htm
I am a sketch artist, and I would like to say that anyone interested in drawing CAN draw! it is all about training the eye little by little. 🙂
March 5, 2011 at 2:33 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Was looking around, and Donna Young’s website has some more of the basic drawing exercises… Here is a link…   http://donnayoung.org/art/draw1.htm
(you will want to click on the tab for younger students – but the page I gave the link for has the explanation…)

March 5, 2011 at 2:54 pm
thepinkballerina
Participant
Yes as you read through it, you’ll see how it is broken down. I took notes and the page numbers myself so I knew how to break it down for each week. We just took our time, since it is overwhelming at first. I do love the 5 basic elements of shape exercises, those really help you see how to draw objects more clearly. 🙂
Tara
March 6, 2011 at 2:36 am
Kelly Bond
Participant
We are currently working through this, too. I felt overwhelmed by it also. I just decided to take my time and do one exercise at a time, and not rush through it. It is a good book, but a bit hard to follow at times. I think it’s important to read through the stuff at the beginning without going right to the lesson (like I wanted to do). Just really take your time in preparing the lessons beforehand and it will begin to make sense. Good luck!
March 6, 2011 at 4:15 am
Michelle Kelly
Participant
Thank you for those links! We recieved the book 2 weeks ago (dwc) and I’ve been a bit intimidated! Sounds like a lot of us are starting up with this book! Are any of you planning on participating in the Drawing with Children Nature Style meme?
March 7, 2011 at 3:07 pm
knitnspinner
Member
I am, Michelle. I printed the first four lessons last week and have the introductory exercises from the book copied and waiting for today’s art time to roll around. I’ll admit, we’ve done these boxes before-I get a little way into it and then stall because I am unsure of what to do next. Finding the breakdown at the Nature Jounal Style page was a big relief. It will take us a little while to get to them since I already have other art in our schedule. (God and the History of Art for my older two and Draw Write Now for my younger two.)
Thanks for your encouraging words, simple home! That’s what I keep telling myself and the children-“we are training our eyes to see!” I’m working through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain myself-on Mondays :~)