the Wisconsin School of the Air creative art program Let's Draw. James A. Schwalbach
Extension Specialist in Art and Design of the University College of Agriculture is your TV art teacher.
We'll explore many ways of using colored chalk in our drawings.
And for picture ideas, we turn to anything that moves. Back and forth,
up and down. or around and around.
Now to guide you, here's your TV art teacher, Mr. Schwalbach.
Hello boys and girls. Today we're going to swing. We're going to swing back and forth.
We're going to swing with our bodies, with our arms, and we're going to swing with our chalk.
So our drawings just literally go back and forth and back and forth on the page, trying to catch
trying to catch that simple movement. And to catch that movement, we're going to use colored chalk.
You may have used it before. It's a very, very fine medium to use. Let's just check our materials
and see if we're ready for our experiments because I want you to do a few experiments with me.
If you look at your desk right now, do you have on your desk one sheet of paper to experiment with
and a second sheet of paper to draw upon? Two sheets of paper, one to experiment, one to draw with.
Then you're going to need chalk, colored chalk. You don't need very many. This is a rather large box,
but five or six colors at least, a brilliantly colored chalk. In addition, it might be a good
idea if you have your desk protected. I have on the top of my desk here a piece of blotting paper.
You may not have that, but newspaper on the top of your desk will work just as well.
And then if you tend to be a little bit messy, the chalk gets around. It might be a good idea
to put some paper, a newspaper on your lap, or if you have an apron, let's wear that.
Now those are actually all the materials you're going to need today, but I'm going to show you
two other ways of using chalk. And so I'm going to have that. If you want to use them and have
them handy fine. I'm going to use some water in connection with my chalk drawing. You may want
that, but it's not necessary at all, and I know you aren't ready with it. And in addition to the
water, I'm going to show you how chalk can be used with ordinary milk. And if you have some
handy, and I don't suppose you have, you might want to use that. But I'll just show you how it's
used. An old rag to clean off your hands or clean off your brushes if you're using it with water.
And a brush to use with the chalk with water and milk. But all you really need today
will be the chalk, the paper, and the newspaper to cover your desk and protect yourself.
Now are those all set ready to go? Fine. Then suppose you pick up a chalk, almost any color
will do, and get ready to experiment with me. We use chalk very much like our crayons.