Clare Price from Educational Arts and an Associate of the Campaign for Drawing led a training session for teachers exploring drawing as a tool for learning.

1. ‘Once Upon a Drawing’
Clare Price
Perth, Australia
May 2013

3.  ‘Marks that have meaning’
 Aims to get everyone drawing!
 Ini4ated in 2000 by the Guild of St George
“Not everything that is drawn gets made,
but nothing gets built without being drawn”
Wish I’d said it…

4. www.campaignfordrawing.org
 RESEARCH
 RESOURCES
 TRAINING
 BIG DRAW

5.  Flagship month of celebra4on in
October every year
 1200+ Partners
 22 countries
 Over ¼ Million Par4cipants
 ‘Drawing Inspira5on’ Awards

7. lots of experimentation helps!
you don’t need a pencil to draw…

8. Collabora4ve

9. Independent

10. Drawing
Captain ScoQ’s
feelings….
Literacy
Visual
Verbal
Emo4onal

11. concentra4ng on represen4ng emo4on

12. Personal journeys

13. using a code of lines
and shapes to show
emo4onal responses to
different areas of the
playground

14. Describing environments through drawing,
enhancing our knowledge of the world.

15. Changing outlines of our
bodies into GIANT bears!

16. Observing expressions of emo4on

17. Exploring our story map
together. What an exci4ng
journey we have had!

18. Memory & ImaginaBon
Finding inspira4on in nature

19. Magic beans sprou4ng
….a star4ng point
for drawing
NarraBve

20. Experimenting with unusual media, mark-making
with feathers and ink
Drawing objects without looking at them - smell,
listen, touch instead

21. Incorpora4ng wri4ng ‐ using quill pens to write
dialogue for the characters
Enac4ng the
finished story

22. A study of
civilians in
World War 2

23. torches made images more drama4c

24. drawings became more abstract

25. our very own masterpiece!

26. Thinking
Designing a game

27. Thinking big

28. Experimen4ng with light

29. Having fun

30. Using shadows to prompt drawing

31. Drawing with different materials
Small details on a
big picture

32. Observa4on, science & literacy

33. photographs prompt
memories to help
generate thoughts
and responses
IdenBty

34. drawing creates 4me and opportunity
to think deeply

35. collabora4ve working points up similari4es
and differences

36. an4cipa4on of the final product

37. Paper People!

38. Drawing across school…literally!

39. Student‐led Big Draw

40. Big Draw in the street

41. drawing with light workshop

42. and now…….more Drawing!

43. Drawing through Perspex