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Degas: Catching Movement

A falling object, drawn moment by moment.

Age
Ages 6–12
Time
25–35 minutes
Format
A4 PDF

Hear how the mission begins

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Part of the Artists Pack: 5 missions for £2.99.

What’s inside

  • The mission sheet, illustrated by Barti
  • The grown-up guide: materials, preparation, what it develops, questions for afterwards
  • An easier and a harder version
  • A QR code: Barti tells the mission out loud

Materials

  • A light, unbreakable object (a plastic cup, for example)
  • A sheet of white paper, ideally long (A4 landscape or A3)
  • Pencil and eraser
  • Coloured pencils or felt-tips

What it develops

  • Meeting an artist — discovers Edgar Degas, his dancers and his horses in motion
  • Observation — looks carefully at the beginning, middle and end of a movement
  • Sequence and time — breaks an action into moments and puts them in order
  • Observational drawing — draws a real object in different positions