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Drawing a Manikin

Kindergarten

Drawing aManikinKindergarten

You will:
  • Learn how to use a digital camera
  • Pose with your friends and take pictures of each other
  • Learn about the artist Edgar Degas
  • Position a drawing Manikin in the same poses as your photographs
  • Draw the Manikin in several different poses
  • Outline your drawings and paint them with watercolor paints
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Edgar Degas was born in Paris, France in 1834 and he lived until 1917.
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Degas was a painter during a time in art called Impressionism.
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He liked to paint people doing fun activities. He painted a lot of horse race pictures.
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He made thousands of drawings and paintings.
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More than half of his works were paintings of ballet dancers.
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He painted and drew the dancers in many different positions.
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He even made a few sculptures of ballet dancers.
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Important Vocabulary Words

Manikin

Impressionism

Pose

Outline

Watercolor paint

Digital Camera

Photograph

Edgar Degas

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