Free Waldorf Drawing Lesson | Block Crayon | Simply Waldorf

Try out this free Waldorf drawing lesson and see how simple and easy drawing can be for you and your homeschool child. This lesson is for parents and teachers in any educational setting who want to bring block crayon drawing to their own program.
NOTE: This lesson is from our stand-alone artistic course that will help develop skill and confidence-and I hope some joy, too!-for anyone of any age. We have a Language Arts and Drawing course specific to the grades curriculum:
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What you will learn:
--How to use the unique qualities of block crayons to create complete, colorful drawings with ease
--How to blend the block crayon colors, very much like paints on a canvas, to create richer and deeper colors and color variations
--How to control the value of the color, the lightness and darkness of the color as a useful artistic effect.
--How to modulate the value in shading techniques to provide clarity and depth to the drawings
--How to use simple shapes, such as circles, ovals, egg-shapes, etc to build toward more complex figures such as animals.
--How to understand warm and cool colors and what they do in a color composition
--How to understand complementary colors in composition
--How to use contrast to highlight certain elements in a drawing
--How to work gradually, rather than in a rush, because there is no "crayon eraser".
This course is anyone who wants to learn about the unique and wonderful artistic medium known as block crayons. Because of their shapes, the block crayons apply color in wider bands, much more like a paintbrush than a stick crayon or colored pencil. This allows for blending of colors and shading--both of which allow for vibrant, rich, and beautiful visual effects. In addition, the block crayons apply color quickly, much more quickly than a tradition stick crayon. So, the beautiful drawings in this course can be created relatively quickly. The 36 start-to-finish lessons take the student through 36 drawings, and the lessons average somewhere around 15 minutes each. This course is a great primer for students who might want to later venture into pastel, colored-pencil, or charcoal drawing.
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