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Math also has a relationship to the graphic arts and design. Although it‘s hard to imagine today, the greatest thinkers of antiquity such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristoteles and Euclid didn't do much with numbers but rather worked with compasses and a ruler. What‘s more, rulers back then had no markings – you could only draw a straight line and not measure distance. Until the mid 1980s, all architects and engineers still had to use compasses and rulers to draft their drawings and plans. With the

Tips for storyboarding and drawing your own comic strips: Introduction: Page 3My comic story: Page 5Story overview: Page 6My comic characters: Page 7Stick people: Pages 8 - 9Perspective: Page 10Speech bubbles: Page 11Showing movement: Page 12Expressions: Pages 13 - 15Sound illustrations: Page 16Layout templates: Pages 17 - 28 How to do itThink up a short story of your own and write it down on the page called ‘My Story’. There shouldn’t be too many characters in it! Divide the story into

Hatching AFTER GIORGIO MORANDI Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964) ranks among the most important still-life painters of modernism. His use of everyday domestic objects such as dishes, containers, bottles, cans, cups, and vases as subjects for his pictures is what earned him the nickname ‘The Bottle Painter’. He experimented a lot with the depiction of surfaces and space and was fascinated with the effects of light and shade. Morandi worked with the technique known as hatching, which is similar to eng

16 color-by-number math worksheets for the four basic topics. The tasks are intended for deepening and repeating your grasp of math basics! With these motivating summer-themed math coloring worksheets you can playfully practice basic math again and again until you end up with a picture that you can put on your wall or give as a gift. You can also cut out the colored-in pictures and stick them alongside others to make a big class wall frieze. Math coloring worksheets consist of many areas, each c

Did you know that grid drawing is one of the best methods to get kids confident about drawing and practice their counting skills? ✏️⁣ Our Pixel People were inspired by the early days of computer games in the 1980s. These materials contain 28 ideas for an educational project teaching children about pixel art! The pictorial representations of early screen graphics were technically dictated by the capacities of computers and the file space of the time. At first, graphics consisted of purely blac

A stick person is a very simple drawing that consists of a few lines, curves, and dots and which represents a person or an animal. A stick person’s head is represented by a circle and the arms, legs, and torso by straight lines. The hands, feet, and neck aren’t so important and are usually left out... Kids like stick people because they’re easy to grasp. But you don’t just find stick people in kids’ drawings – they’ve been around since stone-age cave paintings. Ten thousand years later these sc

Drawing is the basis for attentive, detailed observation. When drawing, there are two basic elements we can use: dots and lines. Dots are the smallest and most inconspicuous element of any drawing. A line is the visible trace of a movement and is nothing more than many dots all joined together. Lines can be endless – they can be crooked or straight. We call short lines dashes. When drawing dots and lines, surfaces, contours, spatial illusions, contrasting shades, hatching, and structures can ap

Drawing is a skill that has to be learned and practiced – either through observation or with the step-by-step method. Learning to draw step-by-step – how come? Well actually, we’re all fascinated by the originality of kids’ drawings. The greatest modernist painters, like Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Klee, and Pablo Picasso were so enthusiastic about children’s uninhibited forms of expression that they employed scribbles and a child’s color palette in their works. No one pursued the idea of

16 color-by-number math worksheets for the four basic topics. The tasks are intended for deepening and repeating your grasp of math basics! With these motivating fall-themed math coloring worksheets you can playfully practice basic math again and again until you end up with a picture that you can put on your wall or give as a gift. You can also cut out the colored-in pictures and stick them alongside others to make a big class wall frieze. Math coloring worksheets consist of many areas, each con

16 color-by-number math worksheets for the four basic topics. The tasks are intended for deepening and repeating your grasp of math basics!With these motivating math coloring worksheets you can playfully practice basic math again and again until you end up with a picture that you can put on your wall or give as a gift. You can also cut out the colored-in pictures and stick them alongside others to make a big class wall frieze. Math coloring worksheets consist of many areas, each containing diffe

Fingerprinting activities are great for young children as they can help to develop fine motor skills. This resource contains 16 fun fingerprint designs: monkeys, balls, balloon-raccoon, bees, flowers, candies, Easter eggs, ice cream cone, fish, ladybugs, chicks, notes, raindrops, snails, spiders and birds. Let your child dip their finger into the paint and get started!

About Curves Graphomotor means ‘writing movement’ and is a subset of fine motor skills. Graphomotoric skills include the rhythmic movements of the hands and fingers as well as the appropriate application of force. Before children learn to write, they need to have a variety of basic bodily and sensory experiences. Using their own bodies, they have to work out how to direct and control their movements in interaction with sensory feedback. Curve exercises are good practice for learning to write,

Hyper-realistic Spatial Illusions - Working With ShadingThe simplicity of the templates and the precise example images enable you to draw hyper-realistic pictures which will astonish you. This is a fascinating exercise for anyone who wants to learn how to represent the interplay of light and shadow with a pencil. Only with the depiction of light and shadow do you give a sketch or drawing the impression of depth and contrast. You can achieve this realistic effect by shading with a pe

Templates for 12 animals that you can print with a fork and cut out How it's donePrint out the desired template and separate the fork-printing circle from the rest of the sheet, cutting along the dotted line. Paint the eyes, ears, and snout, and then cut them out.Dip a fork into finger or tempera paint and press it down onto the circular printing area so that the paint radiates outwards from the middle.Glue the eyes, ears, and snout onto the printed circle... AWESOME!

Drawing is a skill that has to be learned and practiced – either through observation or with the step-by-step method. For kids that need an immediate self-confidence boost, guided drawing is one way to encourage them to draw. With the step-by-step drawing method they follow the examples and can see what they’re supposed to draw. Once they’ve been guided though a couple of drawings they can then begin to sketch out and paint their own ideas and observations.Learning to draw step-by-step – how co

Ideas for drawing 12 animals using your hand as a stencil!You can do almost anything with your hands: draw, paint, cut, glue, tie, sew, twist, etc. But this isn’t all! You can also use your hand as a stencil for drawing. The oldest pictures that humans ever painted are handprints that were discovered in Stone Age caves. Way back then – over 3,000 years ago – people were using their hands as stencils. This was done by placing a hand against a rock wall and then blowing earth-based paint over it u

This huge 33 x 43 inch poster demonstrates in an effective, very simple way what a million is. This is done by ‘bundling’ (otherwise known as ‘grouping’). In mathematics, bundling or grouping means to group small quantities together in order to be able to grasp large numbers more quickly. One million is an unimaginably large number, and not just for children. One million is a thousand times greater than one thousand. Counting to one million would be an extremely tedious task - it would in fact t

16 color-by-number math worksheets for the four basic topics. The tasks are intended for deepening and repeating your grasp of math basics! With these motivating Halloween-themed math coloring worksheets you can playfully practice basic math again and again until you end up with a picture that you can put on your wall or give as a gift. You can also cut out the colored-in pictures and stick them alongside others to make a big class wall frieze. Math coloring worksheets consist of many areas, eac

Math, especially geometry, requires a solid grasp of how to use gridded paper. These simple and attractive exercises with animals drawn on a grid promote and train accurate observation and orientation in two- dimensional space. These materials contain 92 different worksheets at different levels of difficulty. The first row of each worksheet is pre-colored as a guide, the second row is for coloring in, and from the third row onwards the figures can be copied. For generations, schoolkids in Italy

16 color-by-number math worksheets for the four basic topics. The tasks are intended for deepening and repeating your grasp of math basics! With these motivating Christmas-themed math coloring worksheets you can playfully practice basic math again and again until you end up with a picture that you can put on your wall or give as a gift. You can also cut out the colored-in pictures and stick them alongside others to make a big class wall frieze. Math coloring worksheets consist of many areas, eac