Drawing Together: Class work notes.

1 Mapping the Body; Using A1 sheets of drawing paper join sheets to make a large shape for your work Use your body shape to create lines, with help draw around your body, move and re- draw to make a series of lines and patterns. Fill in the pattern areas with any medium; draw, paint, pastel, crayon, collage, print... Use specially sourced materials to illustrate your personal history; Photographs, maps, written notes, stories, verse, recipes, fabrics... The finished piece will be a visual story of your life journey in an abstract form. 2 Mark making; From picture fragments re-create the image in any medium Use as many different ways to recreate the image as you can use pencil, inks, charcoal, pastels, paint, stippled, realism, cubism, abstract styles, print collage A reinforcement activity to explore creativity and stretch your skills 3 Colour Theory; interpreting colour Colour wheel; primary, secondary and tertiary colours Seeing colours and colour harmony 4 Print work 1 Mono-print; making unique images Mark making and inventive line making into ink Monochrome and multi coloured 5 Print work 2 Press prints; Lino print to make multiple images Surface relief and cut away reduction prints Monochrome, multi coloured and over laid colour 6 Observational drawing; From still life Using charcoal, pencils, chalks, crayons to draw what you see Compositional work, tone and line, light, shadow and perspective 7 Graphic design; Book cover create a book of you, use your name or pen name as a starting point Design a cover that conveys a story from your life Think about the style, size and placing of the lettering The size of the book and overall design Composition, colours and shape of the book