Power Drawing Publications

Books are available from NSEAD at £5.50 each, videos cost £15.00 per copy. These prices include postage and packing (NSEAD contact details at bottom of page).The Drawing Attractions resource pack, produced as the lasting legacy of our Heritage Lottery Fund grant, can be purchased directly from The Campaign for Drawing office at £30.00 per pack (contact admin@campaignfordrawing.org).

Start Drawing!

Focuses on drawing in nursery and primary schools. It stresses the importance of drawing activities to support learning in the early years to intensify experience, to reflect on it, to understand the world, to think and do things. (book - published September 2002)

Drawing on Experience

Deals with the use of drawing as a way of engaging visitors with the resources stored in museums, galleries and science centres, and promotes active viewing, access and inclusion. (book - published March 2003)

Draw It!

10-minute video of the Big Draw at the British Museum. It shows how drawing can be used to observe in the galleries, to communicate to others through display and to invent using a variety of media in workshops. (video - produced April 2003 with supporting materials)

Power Drawing Notebooks

For Primary Schools - shows how using drawing in personal notebooks can help children to observe, record, analyse, remember, reflect, organise, dream, fantasise, experiment, visualise and transform 'mistakes' into ideas for development. (book - published January 2004)

Space and Place

Shows how drawing is used by primary and secondary pupils and students in higher education to explore relationships between structures, spaces and people in relation to buildings, public and private space, townscape and landscape. (book - published June 2004)

Lines of Enquiry

Shows how senior secondary school students use drawing as a tool for exploration, experiment and planning to research and develop ideas. Illustrates how research notebooks can be used to develop skills of independent learning. (book - published March 2005)

Professional Practices

Highlights ways people in many trades and professions use drawing as an integral part of their work to help them understand, think, work out problems or enable them to communicate ideas and information to other people. (book - published February 2006)

Drawing Attractions

(resource pack of 4 books, CD and DVD - published June 2006, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund)

Show how drawing can be used at visitor attractions, including historic buildings, gardens, archaeological sites, preserved railways and many other places.

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