Drawing Workshop for Kids: Process Art Experiences for Building Creativity and Confidence
Engage children’s natural curiosity with this collection of 25+ process—driven drawing activities exploring essential art concepts and techniques.

In Drawing Workshop for Kids, art educator Samara Caughey, founder of the highly praised family—centered art studio Purple Twig, shares drawing invitations that support the development of creative, confident children ages 7 and up.

For each project, she includes comprehensive guidance: a materials list, step—by—step instructions, suggested prompts, and full—color photographs of the process and finished examples.

Quick warm—up activities using simple materials help kids loosen up and build confidence. Drawing workshops offer deeper, layered explorations that introduce new materials, concepts, and techniques.

These highly engaging yet low—pressure projects encourage multi—sensory observation and creative independence. Children will have fun as they practice:

  • Creating tones by filling a page in with charcoal and then using different types of erasers to draw a still—life.
  • Using their senses to understand a subject by choosing a fruit and drawing different versions of it as they eat it.
  • Interpreting foreground and background by drawing a background world with colored pencils, which they glue to the bottom of a mint tin, and then drawing a foreground subject, which they place near the front of the tin.
  • Drawing a bird’s eye view by using their imagination to draw a treasure map in pencil and watercolor.
  • Focusing on patterns by drawing colorful feathers with chalk and marker, then cutting them out and pasting them to other shapes to make birds.

With tips for working with groups, a glossary of essential terms, and an overview of recommended materials, this book is a complete resource for creating art with kids.

Whether you are a classroom teacher, a homeschool instructor, a camp organizer, a parent or grandparent looking to engage your kids in a screen—free activity, or even an adult seeking ways to explore your creative side, Drawing Workshop for Kids is your answer and guide to the question, “But what should I draw?”
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Drawing Workshop for Kids: Process Art Experiences for Building Creativity and Confidence
Engage children’s natural curiosity with this collection of 25+ process—driven drawing activities exploring essential art concepts and techniques.

In Drawing Workshop for Kids, art educator Samara Caughey, founder of the highly praised family—centered art studio Purple Twig, shares drawing invitations that support the development of creative, confident children ages 7 and up.

For each project, she includes comprehensive guidance: a materials list, step—by—step instructions, suggested prompts, and full—color photographs of the process and finished examples.

Quick warm—up activities using simple materials help kids loosen up and build confidence. Drawing workshops offer deeper, layered explorations that introduce new materials, concepts, and techniques.

These highly engaging yet low—pressure projects encourage multi—sensory observation and creative independence. Children will have fun as they practice:

  • Creating tones by filling a page in with charcoal and then using different types of erasers to draw a still—life.
  • Using their senses to understand a subject by choosing a fruit and drawing different versions of it as they eat it.
  • Interpreting foreground and background by drawing a background world with colored pencils, which they glue to the bottom of a mint tin, and then drawing a foreground subject, which they place near the front of the tin.
  • Drawing a bird’s eye view by using their imagination to draw a treasure map in pencil and watercolor.
  • Focusing on patterns by drawing colorful feathers with chalk and marker, then cutting them out and pasting them to other shapes to make birds.

With tips for working with groups, a glossary of essential terms, and an overview of recommended materials, this book is a complete resource for creating art with kids.

Whether you are a classroom teacher, a homeschool instructor, a camp organizer, a parent or grandparent looking to engage your kids in a screen—free activity, or even an adult seeking ways to explore your creative side, Drawing Workshop for Kids is your answer and guide to the question, “But what should I draw?”
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Drawing Workshop for Kids: Process Art Experiences for Building Creativity and Confidence

Drawing Workshop for Kids: Process Art Experiences for Building Creativity and Confidence

by Samara Caughey
Drawing Workshop for Kids: Process Art Experiences for Building Creativity and Confidence

Drawing Workshop for Kids: Process Art Experiences for Building Creativity and Confidence

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Engage children’s natural curiosity with this collection of 25+ process—driven drawing activities exploring essential art concepts and techniques.

In Drawing Workshop for Kids, art educator Samara Caughey, founder of the highly praised family—centered art studio Purple Twig, shares drawing invitations that support the development of creative, confident children ages 7 and up.

For each project, she includes comprehensive guidance: a materials list, step—by—step instructions, suggested prompts, and full—color photographs of the process and finished examples.

Quick warm—up activities using simple materials help kids loosen up and build confidence. Drawing workshops offer deeper, layered explorations that introduce new materials, concepts, and techniques.

These highly engaging yet low—pressure projects encourage multi—sensory observation and creative independence. Children will have fun as they practice:

  • Creating tones by filling a page in with charcoal and then using different types of erasers to draw a still—life.
  • Using their senses to understand a subject by choosing a fruit and drawing different versions of it as they eat it.
  • Interpreting foreground and background by drawing a background world with colored pencils, which they glue to the bottom of a mint tin, and then drawing a foreground subject, which they place near the front of the tin.
  • Drawing a bird’s eye view by using their imagination to draw a treasure map in pencil and watercolor.
  • Focusing on patterns by drawing colorful feathers with chalk and marker, then cutting them out and pasting them to other shapes to make birds.

With tips for working with groups, a glossary of essential terms, and an overview of recommended materials, this book is a complete resource for creating art with kids.

Whether you are a classroom teacher, a homeschool instructor, a camp organizer, a parent or grandparent looking to engage your kids in a screen—free activity, or even an adult seeking ways to explore your creative side, Drawing Workshop for Kids is your answer and guide to the question, “But what should I draw?”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781631599439
Publisher: Quarry Books
Publication date: 04/20/2021
Series: Workshop for Kids Series
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 8.62(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Samara Caughey received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from University of Southern California. She taught art classes for children at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California, for 9 years before opening Purple Twig, an art studio for children and families. The studio teaches techniques in ceramics, drawing, sculpture, collage, and printmaking, all the while allowing children to have their own voice. Samara’s approach to teaching children grows directly out of her own fine art practice, which consists of sculpture and collage. She has exhibited professionally in solo and group shows in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. Samara is also contributing writer, creating art projects for children on a bimonthly basis for artfulparent.com and artbarblog.com, and has created art content for teachpreschool.com for their Discovery Conference on process art and how to incorporate it into a preschool curriculum. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Taking Ownership 6

Recommended Materials 8

Essential Terms 10

1 I Warm-Up Drawings

Drawing Eyes Focusing on detail 17

Drawing Huge Gestural mark making 21

Eraser Drawing Creating tones 25

Drawing Rocks Using varied marks 29

Shadow Drawings Filling the page 33

Three Ways of Seeing Using perspective 37

Eat and Draw Using other senses 41

Blind Contour Drawing Using carbon paper 45

2 I Drawing Workshops

Tiny Drawings Close observation 53

Half and Half Using magazine images 57

Drawing Feathers Drawing textures 61

Sfumato Creating depth of field 67

Paper Bag Faces Making 3-D drawings 73

Above and Below Exploring composition 77

Butterfly in a Box Focusing on symmetry 83

Resist Drawing Creating volume 87

Flower Still Life Collaging pattern and texture 91

Drawing by Touch Focusing on other senses 97

3-D birds Focusing on patterns 101

Recipe Drawings Self-expression through design 105

Drawing on Plaster Creating your own drawing surface 109

Tiny Worlds Foreground and background 115

Fruit Plate Exploring composition 119

Feathers in a Box Observational drawing 123

Treasure Maps A bird's-eye view 127

Creating a Machine Using collage 131

Bug Collections Using details and pattern 137

Resources 140

Acknowledgments 141

About the Author 141

Index 142

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