One School’s Mission Comes To Life with The Big Draw…Posted:
21/10/11 Art can be extremely accessible and used for numerous
reasons… to educate, to provide therapy, to tell a story, to
communicate emotions, to bring people together, to create
memories, to entertain… …to name a few. In collaboration with
The Big Draw - a national campaign to inspire more people to
draw, Chiswick Community School in London, have covered some of
the above by organizing a project creating a colourful mural. In
addition to this, they are using drawing as an educational tool
in other subjects of the school curriculum. Julie Herd, head of
the Art Department, tells us more; “The Big Draw project that we
implemented was the first year of the Big Draw for us and it
proved really beneficial for all involved. We developed images
inspired by the techniques of the artists Stephen Wiltshire and
Raoul Dufy. Our source imagery was based on the building styles
of the houses in the area of the school. We made memory
drawings, continuous line dr