24
weekly
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Waldorf Form Drawing Class - Art Through Form and Color

Completed by 6 learners
Ages 8-12
Live Group Class
Using form lines, straight and curved, and color shading we will create images and pictures in a slow process using story and imagery.
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:
(34 reviews)

Live video meetings
1x per week
4-6 learners per class
20 min

What’s included

1 live meeting
20 mins in-class hours per week

Class Experience

Beginner Level
In this ongoing class I will be introducing students to the form drawing techniques as defined by Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Waldorf teachings.  This is a beginning class for students who would like to know more about form drawing.

Form drawing is about the process, not the end result.

Form drawing is repetitive drawing of symbols and shapes—both linear and lateral, zigzag or congruous knots.  They develop in difficulty through the years (adding algebraic patterns and cultural representations in later years) and begin when the child is turning 7 years old.  Some benefits of form drawing include multi-sensory learning, crossing the mid-line, visual motor integration, and spatial intelligence.  These serve a foundation for both reading and writing through eye focus, body awareness and working with both curved and straight lines.  Form drawing is an excellent foundation skill for improving handwriting, concentration and spatial awareness.

Form drawing brings cognitive feeling and problem solving skills together using a simple, story-telling approach.  For the younger child, form drawing should be an engaging, immersive, and enjoyable activity in which the child may see their own progress building through the stories and skills of curved and straight lines.  

Our first lessons will be spent learning straight and curved lines and the importance of both.  All the lessons are built on stories and it is through story that the form drawings emerge.  Form drawing, although an art, does not begin with elaborate pictures but rather ideas from the story which are developed through line and space techniques.  All the beginning form drawings will be created from simple straight and curved lines so it will be easy to join the class at any time.

Classes will begin with a Waldorf welcome to class verse followed by some warm up finger and hand exercises said with verses and poems.  These might include bees wax or playdough.  After the warm ups, we will begin with the form drawing.

Lesson 1: Straight lines (directional)
Lesson 2 : Curved lines 
Lesson 3 : Garden wall, Castle
Lesson 4 : Rainbows
Lesson 5 :Waves
Lesson 6 : Butterfly

Learning Goals

Students will learn to maintain correct pencil control with straight and curved lines.  Students will engage in the form drawing creation being developed through the story.
Students will learn the importance of the color wheel and warm and cool colors.

Other Details

Pre-Requisites
This is a beginners form drawing class based on Waldorf Steiner form drawing techniques and stories. No experience in art or drawing is necessary.
Supply List
Students should have a main lesson book.  This could be a simple scrap book or art binder containing blank white pages.
-set of colored pencils, the more shades the better
- block crayons and / or stick crayons 
*We may also use bees wax and / or playdough to help with some warm up finger and hand exercises at the beginning of classes.
**Pastels and water colors may also be used during some lessons.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Profile
Teacher expertise and credentials
Non-US Teaching Certificate
Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Boston University
I am a qualified Waldorf Steiner teacher with a graduate degree in Steiner Education.  I have taught Steiner Education from kindergarten through to High School over the last 6 years and I have been a teacher over 19 years.

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