I just finished teaching a 4 week drawing class
as part of the Life Long Learning program
at Linden Ponds, a local Senior living community.
Working with this group is incredibly rewarding as well as entertaining!
Here are a few of the exercises we did.
We explored working with a 5 value scale
and how to break things down in to big shapes. .
We did blind contour drawing of our hands.
We drew with our non-dominant hand
with surprising results.
And of course, drawing upside down was a huge hit!
They begin with the usual trepidation (“I can’t draw a straight line!”)
and eventually loosen up and just have fun doing it.
And the conversations, story telling, and idle chats
while working are priceless.