By carminasalazarte on Skatehive
Greetings to everyone in the lifestyle community. Today I’m joining you here to share a new day in the classroom. This time, I’m sharing what our Monday was like as we focused on drawing. As I mentioned in previous posts on Hive, I’ve set aside Mondays to reinforce information on drawing techniques and Wednesdays to reinforce information on painting techniques. When we began the first lesson, the children learned about the use of the so-called "grid," a tool that helps transfer any drawing onto a sheet of paper (or any material: cardstock, canvas, panel) where they will paint or draw. Some artists believe that using a grid is a shortcut or detracts from the artist’s work, since it facilitates or results in a sort of “tracing, a copy” rather than the personal interpretation that should be present in an artistic creation. In other words, it’s not the same to draw something from scratch without any guidance (by “eye”) as it is to have the grid as a guide, which “offers shortcuts.” Fortuna