Live Sketching in Arts and Craft Club

 

“Art has the role in education for helping children to become more like themselves instead of more like everyone else. “ – Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

The Year 1 and Year 2 students in the Arts and Craft club thoroughly enjoyed a quiet lesson on Monday, completing a live sketch of a plant. They had the choice between an orchid and a bonsai tree. This took a lot of concentration and visual analysis of the different parts of a plants structure which the Year 1 students mastered in Term 3.

A live sketch is also known as a life drawing which is the drawing of an object through observation. We found this form of art something new and different for the students to try which completely blew the teachers away by the interest, concentration and beautiful sketches that were completed.

We found this form of sketching encourages students to make use of visual analysis, a lot of concentration, aids in creative problem solving and helps hand-eye coordination as well as fine motor skills.

We are grateful to have such talented students in our Arts and Craft club and look forward to watching them continue to grow more skills over this last term.

“The arts can help students become tenacious, team orientated problem solvers who are confident and able to think creatively.”- Arne Duncan

 

Erin Hierse

Year 1 Teacher