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Blackboard Sketching

Chapter 17: PLATE 14
By Frederick Whitney
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The manual offers step-by-step instruction for making effective blackboard sketches using chalk and charcoal, beginning with basic strokes and progressing to complete classroom illustrations. Plates show stroke techniques and examples — simple shapes, objects, landscapes, seasonal and subject-based drawings — with explicit directions for pressure, angle, and chalk handling. Lessons explain how to adapt sketches for reading, arithmetic, geography, history, nature study, calendars, and holidays, and encourage teachers to practice strokes, vary touches, and adapt examples rather than copy them. Emphasis is placed on using sketching as a visual teaching aid to hold attention, clarify lessons, and lead children to use drawing as spontaneous expression.

Plate 14

PLATE 14

At No. 1 is a very simple stroke made by placing a piece of chalk in a vertical position, and drawing it across the board in any desired direction, breaking it at regular intervals by lifting the chalk from the board. This stroke is useful in representing tiles, brick, stone, or any broken surface.

In this particular sketch a horizontal stroke is first made for the mantel, then the vertical strokes for the surface of the walls; then the bricks are added by the use of the strokes given at 1. Erase the space necessary for the fireplace, and add black chalk or charcoal, leaving the board where the fire is to be represented.

A few gray strokes with the side of the chalk will indicate the logs, and the use of stroke 2 will add the fire and smoke. Stroke 2 is made by massing a little white chalk, and then rubbing into it with the finger, gradually blending it into the tone of the blackboard. The details, andirons, etc., are easily added.

If this sketch is used for Christmas, add toys, sleds, stockings, or other objects suggestive of the day. They are all drawn with the side of the chalk, the direction of the stroke being dictated by the object.

The sketches in this and the following lesson may be used in work in history, or to illustrate the type of house used by the early settlers. The sketch on plate 15 is supposed to be Washington’s home, and that on plate 16 is Lincoln’s birthplace.