It used to be that we all got our books from Bob & Nancy or borrowed them from the Rudolf Steiner Library in NY if you were on the East Coast or the Rudolf Steiner Library in CA if you were on the West Coast and that was that.
NOW there is a glut of information on Waldorf education everywhere and it's so hard to know what to choose from all of the wonderful options!
So, here are the sixteen FD books I've had over the years and the book I would now recommend to a new homeschooler who only wanted to get ONE.
• Form Drawing for the Homeschooling Parent – from Waldorf Without Walls
• Beginning with Form Drawing – from Live Education!
• Form Drawing for Beginners – from Christopherus Homeschool Resources
• Form Drawing: Grades One Through Four by Laura Embrey-Stine & Ernst Schuberth
• Form Drawing by Hans R. Niederhauser & Margaret Frohlich
• The Write Approach: Form Drawing for Better Handwriting books 1 & 2 by Joen Gladich & Paula A. Sassi
• Creative Form Drawing books 1, 2 & 3 by Rudolf Kutzli
• Form Drawing by Arne Breidvik
• Dynamic Drawing by Hermann Kirchner
• Creative Form Drawing with Children Aged 6-10 Years: Workbook 1 by Angela Lord
• Creative Form Drawing with Children Aged 10-12 Years: Workbook 2 by Angela Lord
• Creative Form Drawing for the Four Temperaments: Workbook 3 by
Angela Lord
• Living Lines: Form Drawing Inspiration for Steiner-Waldorf Teachers by Henrik Thaulow
Note: There is also a Form Drawing section in Painting and Drawing in Waldorf School: Classes 1 to 8 by Thomas Wildgruber.
And the winner is... Living Lines!
I love his combination of background information and practical tips for the teacher, form suggestions, student work, and photographs from nature! VERY highly recommended!!!
If you were looking for additional resources, I would suggest Angela Lord's Creative Form Drawing for the Four Temperaments and Hella Loewe's Basic Sculptural Modeling: Developing the Will by Working with Pure Form in the First Three Grades (this book is available as a FREE downloadable PDF from the Online Waldorf Library).
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2 comments:
Does living lines give a specific sequence for each grade? I really would like a sequence to tell me what to do next....
Thanks for your question! And no, not this book. Waldorf education is designed to be more of an emergent curriculum, where the teacher is first trained extensively in child development and then creates a curriculum tailored for the needs of the unique children in front of them. Each time you teach a main lesson block it should be different because you're teaching it to a different group of individuals at a different time in human history.
That's why Steiner always spoke of curriculum "indications."
And why Waldorf teachers are told to specifically think about the inner life of the unique children in their class and visualize them when they lesson plan -- not plan for a generic child with a birthdate that falls within a certain range.
With that said, I would most likely recommend Laure Embryo-Stine and Ernst Schuberth's book, Form Drawing: Grades One Through Four for you. It does number the figures (1a, 1b, 1c, etc) and it gives really specific instructions for the first few form drawing lessons in grade 1, explaining exactly how to introduce them. And it has ideas for increasingly-difficult forms for each grade. It is probably the closest to what you're looking for. But, as in keeping with Waldorf education, the language throughout is not prescriptive.
"As a next step in working with the curved line and the inflection point the children may do exercises with the lemniscate." (grade 1)
"When the children have already worked through simple closed forms and metamorphosis, they may begin working with running forms." (grade 1)
"Some time after the children have worked with balancing a form on a curved axis of symmetry, the idea of a free symmetry may be introduced through Steiner's form." (grade 3)
"Many forms are given here for the teacher to choose from. Eventually the children should be encouraged to develop and draw their own forms." (grade 4)
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