Drawing from Imagination – The following exercises will develop the imagination. The subjects are merely suggestive and others may be substituted. Care should be taken to select objects simple in outline and construction.
Draw a box – just the front of it. Now add wheels and a handle, thus making a wagon out of it. Put a doll in the wagon. Now draw a boy or a girl pulling the wagon. Write a line under it, descriptive, for instance, as to where they are going.
Draw the box again – just the front – put a flower pot on it. Now put a long stem with a flower in the pot. Add leaves to the stem. Next put a butterfly or a bird flying near the flower. Write under the drawing a line about birds (or butterflies) and flowers.
Draw a box; put a cage on it; put a bird into the cage. Draw a cat near the box, looking at the bird. The cat is interested in the bird. Write under the drawing what the cat says about it.
Draw a log on a bank; put a boy or a girl on the log; put a fishing rod, with line and hook, in the hands of the boy. Draw a line showing the surface of the water. Now show a fish under the waterline, getting ready to bite at the hook.
Let the student write a line under the drawing. It might refer to whether the fishing is good or not.
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