I began drawing and painting it out by hand on canvas. There are many things to notice when you draw and as we know, developing noticing skills is key for language learners.įor example, last year I took a photograph of a part of Aleppo that, as you can imagination, had been all but obliterated.
It doesn’t matter how “accurate” the drawing is visually if the process of really noticing and paying attention to the subject is the objective. The process of drawing aids the artist to really see something. So given this, why is drawing still important? The Purpose of Drawing They used shadows, and the camera oscura to cast images on a canvas to aid “seeing” perspective. Renaissance painters actually did make use of technology whenever they could. If Leonardo da Vinci had Photoshop or the Adobe suite on his computer, or a video camera and a mobile phone, he wouldn’t have been drawing so much either. With all the technology today, drawing isn’t always so necessary. You’ll often hear that old comment “I can’t draw” at this point.
When we aren’t accustomed to drawing, we immediately get a bit tense about what the image is going to look like. In this article, I’ll offer ideas and activities that can be used when working with the visual arts that empower teacher and learner alike. Looking at images created by artists can be confounding. They often don’t consider themselves as “arty”. Many teachers are daunted by the idea of dealing with the visual arts in the classroom, let alone an English language classroom.
0 kommentar(er)
