Drawing, in its elements, means form, color and action. Not only to the untrained mind, but to many far advanced in the study of art, form and color are subservient to action. If action is absent, interest is transient. Of course the drawing itself does not move but the idea does.
Memory Work
After the simple lines of the action exercises have been learned, they should be adapted by the pupils and connected with little stories and language lessons.
The boys might be permitted to portray boys playing ball, while the girls could make pictures of children rolling hoops.
The suggestions should be given by the teacher. Afterwards, the most successful efforts may be reproduced on the blackboard.
Suggestions for subjects:
Man running from policeman.
White man running from Indian.
Sections
- Action Drawing
- Advice To Teachers
- Beginners Instructions
- Blocking In
- Clay Modeling
- Copying By Triangulation
- Decorative Ornamental Art
- Drawing From Nature
- Early Exercises
- Elementary Lines
- Elementary Perspective
- Expression Emotion
- Foreshortening
- Geometrical Form
- How To Draw Animals
- How To Draw Cartoons
- How To Draw Charcoal Crayon
- How To Draw Flowers
- How To Draw Women Men Children
- Lettering
- Light And Shade
- Materials For Drawing
- Models Measurements Proportions
- Outlines For Beginners
- Paper Folding Cutting
- Pen And Ink Drawing
- Principles Of Composition
- Simple Story Pictures
- Solid Black Effects
- Stimulating Imagination
- Tracing Transferring
- Two Handed Exercises