Beginners Drawing Skills for ECEs and Adults

Every line, every mark on a creation, tells a story. Drawing skills foster the language of art as an expressive medium for meaningful conversations through storytelling and self-reflection. Drawing skills expand on the multiple modes of communication where educators listen to and honour the incredible range of expressive languages children use to communicate. Learning to draw enhances an educator’s communication skills, using the visual language of art to create dynamic teachers.

• Develop your cognitive skills, improve your self-confidence, and learn how to teach your new drawing skills to children in simple fun ways, every day.
• Explore how to see with an artist’s eye.
• Understand how basic geometric shapes govern our understanding of what we see.
• Discover how light sourcing influences what we see and how light wraps form.
• Appreciate how our emotional state is affected by our environment and expressed in our art.

Living Inquiries:

Communication and literacies.

Pathways:

Multiple modes of communication.

Language and communication.

Suitable for students, parents, adult instructors/administrators, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages, from infants/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.