Drawing Lessons

Growing the Preschool Mind – Healthy Feeling and Thinking

How to Teach Drawing to Children 
(Ideas for parents and teachers)

This page was reprinted in the Canadian Homeschooling Horizons Magazine in March 2007. I was originally inspired to write it by an inquiry from an Australian mother whose son, age eight, was feeling discouraged and wanted help in learning to draw better.

How to Draw an Orchid at Age 4

Preschool Art – letter to preschool teacher

Preschool, Kindergarten, and Art

Teaching Observation Drawing to Young Children

Working With Children Who Scribble on Walls

Transfer in Learning to Draw

Teaching Drawing to Young Children

Typical First Pictures

Drawing at Age 5

Kids and Quest for Order

Sketchbook Evaluation for 5th Grade

Sixth Grade Sketches

Learning to Draw Made Easier

• Demo or Hands-On Learning?

• Learning to Draw

• Teaching Blind Contour

• Observation Shading

• Rabbit Drawing Using Blinders

• Nature Drawing Using Viewfinders

• Ink Wash Drawings: Developing Dramatic Mood (Contributed by Rebekah Short)

• Cubism As Experience vs Examples

• Portrait and Figure Drawing

• Blinder Drawing Game

• Drawing Lessons With Viewfinders

• All Skills Needed To Draw

• Teaching Shading in Drawing

• Drawing is Basic by Unsworth

• Drawing for the “Untalented”