| Energise Yourself |
Be Curious - Draw an Object
- Notice What You Like - Part 1 and 2
- Draw a Scene
- Draw a Leaf or Flower
- Take A Minute
- Taking Rubbings
- Stitch Memory Journal
- Draw an Object
- All you need to know about this activity
- About drawing from observation
- Step 1: Which object to choose?
- Step 2: What background shall I place it on?
- Step 1-2
- Step 3: Size of the drawing, and where to place it
- Make a viewfinder
- Step 4: Make a basic sketch
- Step 5: Light and dark (tone), and shadows
- Step 5 continued: Highlights
- Step 6: Texture
- What next?
- Draw an Object Video Guide
- Wellbeing Art Tour - Discover Manchester Art Gallery
- Visiting an Art Gallery
"I enjoyed taking my time and doing a good job when doing the textile activity"
Step 6: Texture
- Complete your work, by drawing in textures. Texture – the structure, appearance and feel of something – can be drawn in lots of ways, by using different marks and drawing tools. You could also get inspiration from our activities - ‘Tools & Techniques’ and ‘Make Marks to Music'
You can use, for example:
- squiggly marks
- lots of parallel lines (known as ‘hatching’, or ‘cross hatching’ if crossed over with further lines)
- random marks
- dots
- round loopy marks
- light delicate lines
- bold dark lines
