Chalk and Talk: Quick Sketching for Beginners

By Owen Shelley

Is your teaching ministry hampered by a lack of confidence in drawing? Then this book is for you.
Owen Shelley draws on his long experience as a children's evangelist with Scripture Union in New South Wales. After learning the quick sketching technique presented here, Owen found it an invaluable teaching tool which transformed his ministry. This booklet takes you through a series of lessons and provides advice about the simple materials required. The lessons will enable you to capture the attention of children and keep them focused on the story Enhance the way you communicate, with your new found skill becoming the servant of the gospel message.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Owen Shelley
• Release date: Nov 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301045174

Owen Shelley

Owen Shelley has been a prominent Children's Missioner for over 50 years and produced a wide range of resources during this time. In 2007 he, and his son Stephen, recognised that these resources were still relevant today if only they could be updated for the modern technological age. Stephen has spent the last few years converting these resources to a digital format so that you can still have access to them.

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Chalk & Talk - Quick sketching for beginners

by Owen Shelley

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Copyright 2012 Owen Shelley

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Have you ever said 'I'm hopeless! I can't draw!' 'When I do draw, the kids laugh.' -

Having convinced yourself that this was true, you made little attempt to use sketching when teaching children.

This was my attitude too. I saw teachers using sketching to communicate Bible stories and Christian truth to children. I observed the children's reactions. They were captivated. But I did not expect that I would be able to use this technique myself. Not until I saw a demonstration by experienced children's worker, Norman Blake, did I overcome my hesitation.

Norman Blake explained that the secret of success lay in the grasping three 'principles'. His advice went like this: 'Whatever is difficult, draw out of Sight, off the edge of the page, or so far in the distance you can't tell what it