Draw Your Household: Having Fun During COVID-19
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is an opportunity to learn a new skill. So, let's try portrait drawing.
1) Getting Together - Make some snacks and beverages and gather your family/roommates in the living room. Don't have enough people or want to include those outside your home? Invite people to participate on Zoom, Facetime, Google Hangouts, or countless other virtual platforms.
1) Getting Together - Make some snacks and beverages and gather your family/roommates in the living room. Don't have enough people or want to include those outside your home? Invite people to participate on Zoom, Facetime, Google Hangouts, or countless other virtual platforms.
2) What You Need: Pen and paper is the easiest. But, we can expand to crayons, markers, color pencils, and paint. Or bring it outside and use chalk on the driveway. Whatever makes a mark.
3) Who's Next?: Pair up into groups of two (2) or (3) people. Draw them as they are drawing you. And try not to draw the same person twice. If necessary, only draw twice when everyone else has been drawn.
4) Set Aside Some Time: How much time will depend on how many people participate and how "finished" you want the pieces to be. If there's five (5) people that just want some entertainment; set a timer for 10 minutes to draw each person.
If there's only two (2) or three (3) of you and you want to develop your life drawing skills; set a timer for one (1) to four (4) hours.
5) Share It With Each Other: Look at each other's work. And remember this is suppose to be fun. So, don't be critical unless if someone asks for advice on improvement.
If the group does want to improve through critique, remember to listen, have a conversation, be direct, specific, focus on the piece instead of the person, make suggestions, and compliment something about the piece.
6) Share It More Publicly: This could be on a refrigerator or an empty wall. On a driveway or on social media. It could be just a select few best pieces from an evening. Or all the pieces created during the pandemic.
UNVACCINATED
Health and Safety Considerations for gathering:
1) Wear a mask and practice social distancing (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/social-distancing.html)
1) Wear a mask and practice social distancing (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/social-distancing.html)
2) No indoor activities
3) No sharing bathrooms
4) Wash hands before and after gathering. Don't touch your face.
5) Bring your own food, snacks, drinks, and utensils.
6) Do not attend if you have asthma, heart disease, diabetes, overweight, have/survived cancer, or 50+ year old.
7) Do not attend if you have or have had Coronavirus or showing symptoms (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html).
VACCINATED (2 weeks after final dose)
Health and Safety Considerations for gathering:
3) No sharing bathrooms
4) Wash hands before and after gathering. Don't touch your face.
5) Bring your own food, snacks, drinks, and utensils.
6) Do not attend if you have asthma, heart disease, diabetes, overweight, have/survived cancer, or 50+ year old.
7) Do not attend if you have or have had Coronavirus or showing symptoms (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html).
8) Limit attendance to a few people.
9) Talk with everyone about comfort levels. Expect and allow non-participation and last minute cancellations.
VACCINATED (2 weeks after final dose)
Health and Safety Considerations for gathering:
1) Wear a mask and practice social distancing in public (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/social-distancing.html)
2) Indoor activities safe with a few vaccinated people. No indoor activities with unvaccinated people
3) No sharing bathrooms
4) Wash hands before and after gathering. Don't touch your face.
5) Bring your own food, snacks, drinks, and utensils.
6) Do not attend if you have asthma, heart disease, diabetes, overweight, have/survived cancer, or 50+ year old.
7) Do not attend if you have or have had Coronavirus or showing symptoms (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html).
8) Limit attendance to a few people.
9) Talk with everyone about comfort levels. Expect and allow non-participation and last minute cancellations.
Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold hundreds of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.
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