Way way back when, in my first year teaching, I had a book called Ed Emberley's Make a World, which gave simple instructions for combining shapes to create more complex images. These steps were really helpful for a beginning artist to learn to see how forms can be built from simpler parts. I started using these techniques in my classroom to help students improve their drawings - and one day I decided to work on listening skills so I didn't tell them what we were making up front - they had to…
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