Drawing is part of almost every main lesson block. Here are some drawings
using colored pencil, as well as beeswax crayons.
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This is one of the first black and white perspective drawings that
was done. Drawings now begin to reflect correct proportions to the outer world, as well as the play of light
and shade.
This is an example of a "breathing tone" exercise. The exercise
consists of rhythmic strokes (back and forth) using a black drawing pencil on white paper
to create an open "tone", or the emergence of a condition in which one color appears within another color. Ideally, the
tone is shapeless, and appears to have no lines.
In this picture, one starts with a darker outside edge, moving
to a gradual (almost imperceptible) shift to lighter shades as one goes inward. Alternately, the
exercise can be done by working in the opposite direction, going from dark (in the middle) to light (moving outward).
This practice reflects the inbreath and the outbreath of the soul.
While these exercises can be attempted at any time, they might take on a different meaning during the "middle school years", as a reflection of the general theme
of polarities begins to mark this particular period in a child's life.
In addition to this type of breathing tone, we also did the same work
with figure 8's to reflect the polarities of gravity and levity that are unfolding in the soul development of the child now.
