Tag: art

  • How to trace a picture – (it’s not cheating!)

    Tracing is not cheating. It’s how we can learn from others who have worked out how to draw something. I fear that children don’t do tracing anymore as they are given photocopied worksheets to colour in instead. When you trace an image, the shape of that image goes into the brain. Colouring in is a…

  • A manifesto for drawing – first draft

    I’ve been thinking recently why drawing skills are so important and why education seems to do its best to bash natural skills and talent out of children. So her is a first dratf of my manifesto for drawing. I’m sure it will change as I focus my intentions and others add their two pennyworth. What…

  • Matisse – Paper Cutting

    I’m not sure how Matisse’s paper cutting has passed me by. I must at some stage have thought they were a bit simple and not looked again. In the Pompidou Centre in Paris recently, I came face to face with two large works of paper cutting by Matisse and was quite blown away by them.…