I
like drawing do not you? We like painting, drawing, colouring, stories,
comics... they are part of our lives. Who does not have a comic in his bedroom?
Maybe it is about Nelo and Patrasche?
You know that, A Dog of Flanders is a novel written
by the English author Marie Louise de la Ramee in 1872. It is about a Flemish boy
named Nello and his dog, Patrasche. The
origin is English, but is better known in Belgium because of the tourist’s
attraction. Perhaps, is widely read in Japan and has been adapted into several
films and anime.
About
the lesson, I enjoy a lot in the class. We make different activities in
relation with drawing but focus on the pupils. The class begins with the world
of comics and we end doing one by ourselves. It is a nice activity also to do
with children, perhaps I do it during my teaching practice time. The final
result was amazing. Here there are some pictures:
The
activity is consist on making different groups, more o less between three, four
or five person per group it must be O.K. The groups should be divided into
different tables around the space and in each table should be one big white
paper. Ones the groups are made each partner have to take one object. The
teacher has to provide the objects (you can go to a second hand market an buy a
big box plenty of toys).
These
are the step they must be follow during the activity:
1.-
Ones each groups is in their tables and each of the partner has his own toy,
they can put them into the paper and draw something related with the object. (I
have chosen the fish so I drawn the sea).
2.-
You have to take the toy and go in the clocks direction to the next table. Each
of the group members has to take the toy with him. The next step is to add
something to the drawing that the other partners did in their drawing. The toy
must be used, with the same purpose of the beginning. Then, the toy has to be
leaved there.
3.-
They have to change to the next table. In the third step in each drawing there
must be 4 toys a some drawing around them. In this case what they have to do is
to go to the news paper and take one image, the most attractive one and stick
in the paper where ever they want.
4.-
Ones they are in the next table, they have to draw something around the news
paper.
5.
Finally the last step is to take some words from the news paper and stick in
the paper. And suddenly there are five different creations, five different
stories.
In
our case when we finished the activity, each of the group members have to
create our comic, starting with what we can see in the drawings. In my case
there was a throne with the king, a car, a gnome who was alone in an
island and some cows. This is the result of the comic:
``The king and the
dragon´´
This
activity has more than one variation so the teacher is the one who has to be
looking and controlling. In our case we have had some minutes to make our
drawings. For the children you can give more time. Moreover the teacher has to
know that the objective is not the same than for us. The children are who has
to tell to the teacher the rhythm of the activity.
The teacher show us one easy way for the smaller to
start drawing. It was consist on using geometric forms. I have found the next
video in which you can see how they draw animals starting with those
geometrical forms. I hope that you like it !
Moreover, for the older children these is a fantastic
web said. It is based on drawing. Different examples are there, take a look ! :
http://www.yourdrawinglessons.com/
To end with here you can see a funny
picture taken during the process of the activities :
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