Lesson Plan to teach and learn Pencil Vs Camera and Digital Circlism creative concepts by Ben Heine - For school teachers and students.

For schools and teachers: Find here below some new and free lesson plans explaining how to introduce and teach Ben Heine's "Pencil Vs Camera" and "Digital Circlism" concepts in schools to stimulate students art skills, imagination, creativity and use of new technologies. Click on following images to view the full pdf documents. From St Mary's High School in Ontario, Canada. More info, examples and other lesson plans here.

1) Lesson Plan to teach and learn Pencil Vs Camera photo drawing
creative concept by Ben Heine for teachers and students. More info

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2) Lesson plan to teach and learn Digital Circlism creative concept

by Ben Heine for teachers and school students. More info

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Pencil Vs Camera Popular in Primary and Secondary Schools

Since 2013, Ben Heine's Pencil Vs Camera concept has become popular in primary and secondary schools worldwide. Heine was quickly contacted by art teachers and schools requesting to use and teach his techniques to their students. They are showing them Heine's creative process through pedagogical worksheets and ask students to do similar images to stimulate their imagination, train their drawing and photography skills, encourage them to use new technologies and motivate them to share ideas and communicate. Heine's work also allows teachers to discuss the differences between observational and imaginative drawing with the art class. The students either create their own artworks from scratch or use Heine's images with the sketch removed to have something to start with (see below).

Since Heine's creative techniques became part of art lessons in many primary and secondary schools, different art lesson plans giving instructions on how to use his concept are spread by schools and art teachers on the Internet in France and in the United Kingdom (see some examples below). Heine has also given frequent interactive conferences to schools in Canada. In June 2014, one of the classes studying Heine's concept in Belgium (Katholieke Centrumschool Denderleeuw) visited his studio in Rochefort (more info). 

Here below in red are some lesson plans examples based on Ben Heine concept for primary and secondary schools, followed by links showing applications in art classes in the UK, France and Canada (this is a selection, there are numerous other examples in French schools). If you're an art teacher, feel free to use or improve this material for educative purposes.

Lesson Plan 1
Lesson plan 2

Applications in schools (selection):

Collingwood School (Vancouver, Canada)
Ecole Primaire Evilard (Suisse)

Dover College (Dover, UK)

Lander Valley High School (Lander, UK)

New Hope School (London, UK)
ColegioMenor in Quito (Ecuador)

Madison High School (Madison UK)
Ecole Lamartine (Dunkerque, France)
Ecole Coligny (Poitier, France)
Ecole Renaudeau (Allaire, France)
International School of Beijing (China)
Ecole St Jean le Vieux (St Jean le Vieux, France)
Ecole de la Flotte en Ré (Flotte en Ré, France)
Bede's Preparatory School (Eastbourne, UK)

Some results 
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Pencil Vs Camera Techniques Taught in Different Schools

Beijing City International School - China

Beijing City International School - China

School in Switzerland

School in Scorbé-Clairvaux - France

School in Aman - Jordan

Collingwood School - Canada

Pupils Visiting Ben's Studio

A group of students from the KCD School (Denderleeuw, Belgium) visited my studio in Rochefort with their teacher Bart Verhelle. It was a fantastic opportunity to show them my works and ask them what they want to do in the future. Thank you for all the little gifts.

Publication in
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My painting "Mother Africa" was recently published in the Fucid magazine. See the online edition.

The FUCID is a non-governmental organization located in the University campus of Namur, Belgium. It intends to bring lasting social, political and environmental changes and promotes solidarity and citizenship.

Many thanks to the editors and to Benjamin Moriamé in particular. (Benjamin Moriamé is a Belgian journalist working for the FUCID and as a freelance for La Libre Belgique, Le Soir, Vers l'Avenir and several other magazines.)
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© 2008 - Ben Heine

I was recently invited by Benjamin Moriamé to host a conference on the theme "Art and Militancy" at the FUCID (FUCID, in English: "University Foundation of International Cooperation for Development"). I explained my evolution as a political illustrator, I spoke about the importance of political art nowadays and I also focused on the limits of freedom of expression in political cartooning.

I've illustrated in the past several bulletins published by the FUCID. The FUCID is a non-governmental organization located in the University campus of Namur, Belgium. It intends to bring lasting social, political and environmental changes and promotes solidarity and citizenship.

Warm thanks to Benjamin Moriamé for inviting me and for giving me the chance to use my freedom of speech and have an interesting debate with students. Benjamin Moriamé is a Belgian journalist working for the FUCID and as a freelance for La Libre Belgique, Le Soir, Vers l'Avenir and several other magazines.
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