1. Gesture Drawing Quick, loose sketch Use loose arm movements (gestures)
Great ‘warm up’ exercise for artists
Can provide a start for a more finished drawing or painting
‘blocks in’ the large, basic shapes of a figure
Trains the simultaneous working of the eyes, the brain, and the hand
Observation… Drawing what you see instead of from memory
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2. Gesture Drawing Start with Basic Shapes… Head Neck Body Arms/Hand
Legs/Feet

3. Gesture Drawing

4. ARTIST TIP… On-going practice!
Gesture Drawing
I Can…
Study a pose, and draw what I see
Use basic shapes to draw a figure
Create gesture drawings using quick, loose gestures
Practice observing and drawing to improve my skills
ARTIST TIP… On-going practice!

5. What Stuck Today?? What will you remember about
Write me a note, then sign your name.
gesture drawing?

6. Stylized Olympic Sculpture
Display: With care, stylized sculptures can be attached using a stapler to construction paper or Bristol Board ‘backers’, then displayed on a bulletin board.

7. Sculptures – Olympic Sports

8. Stylized Olympic Sculpture
Materials:
Pipe cleaners (chenille sticks)
Newspaper
Masking Tape
Aluminum Foil
Construction Paper (‘backer’)
Pencil (name on back of construction paper)
Stapler (to attach sculpture to paper ‘backer’ for display)
WARM-UP EXERCISE… Gesture Drawings of the pose
you wish to create.

9. Stylized Olympic Sculpture
CREATE…
A Symbolic Pose: Discuss, Practice/Pose, Refine
Armature Build Up Wrap/Mold
ARTIST TIP: This project will take time, experimentation and persistence. Work together to share strategies and techniques, to try again’ and to not give up.

10. Sculptures – Olympic Sports
I Can…
Use materials to create a human figure
Manipulate materials to depict a pose
Consider position and proportion
Take risks, experiment & try again