An activity that we start the year off with in Grade nine is from Betty Edward's book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
In this activity, students are required to recreate Picasso's portrait of Igor Stravinsky, but to do it upside down.
There is a small art history and elements of art lesson on the element 'line' to introduce the activity, so it is part of a DBAE approach. We also discuss the context of the original portrait, so it is (sort of ) a VCAE approach to art, although this is far less important to us at this point in the year.
Above is my attempt at the drawing. Like the students, I found this was very frustrating. Hopefully, I was slightly less vocal in my complaints about the difficulty level of the task! My husband wouldn't listen anyway.
In this activity, students are required to recreate Picasso's portrait of Igor Stravinsky, but to do it upside down.
There is a small art history and elements of art lesson on the element 'line' to introduce the activity, so it is part of a DBAE approach. We also discuss the context of the original portrait, so it is (sort of ) a VCAE approach to art, although this is far less important to us at this point in the year.
Above is my attempt at the drawing. Like the students, I found this was very frustrating. Hopefully, I was slightly less vocal in my complaints about the difficulty level of the task! My husband wouldn't listen anyway.
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