• Notice What You Like - Part 1 and 2
  • All you need to know about this activity
  • Notice What You Like - Part 1: Getting started
  • Notice What You Like - Part 2: Making and Using a Viewfinder
  • Step 1: Getting started
  • Making a movable viewfinder
  • Using the viewfinders
  • What next?
• Draw a Scene
• Draw a Leaf or Flower
• Take A Minute
• Taking Rubbings
• Stitch Memory Journal
• Draw an Object
• Wellbeing Art Tour - Discover Manchester Art Gallery
• Visiting an Art Gallery

Making a movable viewfinder

You will need:

• 2 pieces of A4 rigid card

• Scissors

• Pencil

• Ruler

• 2 large paperclips, to hold the L shapes together when you have selected your view

 

Getting started:

Already got a viewfinder?  Click here to be taken to the exercise 'Draw a Scene.’

• Draw an L shape of approx 6 cm deep, on each piece of card, and cut them out, see example below

 

 

 

• Place one L shape over the other to create a window of any size and shape. See example below