Welcome, today I will show you how to
draw a Greek temple and use scraps of
paper from around the home to give it
colour and texture like this one.
Here's what you will need some paper and I'll
be using A4 here but bigger like A3 is
usually better to show some of the
details. you'll also need an eraser or a
rubber, a pencil and a black pen, some
glue, and I have hobby glue here but glue
stick is usually better, and some coloured
paper from around the house.  Now I have
some old envelopes here a few adverts I
ripped out of magazines and some
chocolate wrappers. Anything like thin
tissue paper or anything that's
colourful will work. The first thing we
have to do is draw a Greek temple and we
will be drawing a Doric six column
temple. We will only be drawing the front of
it and this is based on the temple of
Zeus at Olympia, but it's not exactly the
same. So that's what we will be drawing,
and we'll start with the steps at the
bottom here, move on to the columns, and
then do the top. okay so how to draw the
steps it's very simple, you just have to
have your pencil and then steps at the
end should be 1 centimeter rectangles
like that
and then I'm gonna move to the other
side of the paper and do the same and
then I'm going to join them and flip the
paper over because that's easier
so this is what happened on the other
side here and I had to fix, I had to make
sure they joined up essentially. but
that's okay. Okay, and that's the base of
our temple. It has three steps that's
essentially with the stylobate is. now
it's a difficult task we have to draw a
column. We will be drawing Doric columns
I'm going to even this out a little
bit. We need to start just slightly away
from the first steps. I'm gonna start
here and draw the base of the column
it's basically a rectangle and then go up, up the column
I'm not going to go all the way up the paper
okay so I think that's about it. now at
the bottom there's usually carved two
lines you don't need to add them,
okay, and then at the top is very important
that our temple has a capital and the
Doric capital is very simple that's why
we've chosen the Doric one. It's basically
rounded
and then at the top of it is another
rectangle that sticks out a little bit
over it
and then there's these two lines below.
that's it, that's a Doric column and now
you just have to repeat that six times
which is what I'm going to do.
so don't worry if it goes a little wonky, you can use an eraser and fix it as you go,
okay, let's go
my biggest problem is always spacing
them out, so making sure all six fit here, so
I'm usually making corrections at this
end here. okay so that's our six columns
done. and as I said each one is a
little bit different
I forgot about the lines here here
these two are shorter then these, that doesn't
matter we have six columns let's keep
going. so what we're going to do now is
we're going to draw the entablature the
entablature is just a bit that rests on
the capitals and holds up the roof.
it's quite simple the way I do it, it's, I just
join up all the columns starting here so
it's quite important that they're
similar size
okay we're just gonna shave of a bit of this one here. it ends slightly outside of the
column capitals. it has two parts to it, it
has the architrave and the frieze, you
don't need to know any of these words
all right and then on top of the
entablature we have the pediment and the
pediment is a triangle on the top of the
Greek temple. it's the roof so it has to
be something like this now I'm gonna try
as hard as I can to make it meet up in
the middle but that's always really
difficult
you basically, you can fold your paper in
half to find that point if you're very
particular. I'm just going to try
I'm drawing from here, very gently with my pencil
that's the pediment! so inside the
pediment we would usually have carved
figures we're not going to do that, we're
not going to draw them, but we are going
to draw the frieze, and Doric temple
friezes usually have what's called
metopes and triglyph pattern, it's very
simple and it's a lot of fun to decorate
that's why we're going to do it. it's
basically squares, they would be
carved as well, on the temple of Zeus
they're labours of Herakles
so that's a square.
and then a triglyph which is a
rectangle with three little rectangles inside it.
so we're just gonna put two
lines. now I'm gonna do that throughout
frieze.
so that's our Greek temple almost
done. what I am going to do now is trace
it in black pen so that it doesn't
smudge what I'm working on it.
all I'm doing here is just tracing the columns
and the rest of the temple in black pen
and I'm correcting a few weird lines as
I go. Now that that's done it's time for
the fun colouring bit
what I have is scraps of paper arranged
by different colours on the side like
this. I also have my glue. what I have is
hobby glue which is water-soluble and
that makes it easier to clean later
I've also put scraps of paper
underneath my temple so I don't make too
much of a mess. The first thing to do is
decide what colour I want and where.
So I decided I want my columns in blue, steps in brown and then for the pediment I'm
going to use various colours to show that normally it's carved with different
figures and painted in different
patterns. I will use different colors for
the triglyphs as well. and  bear in
mind, that this is really fun because you
can show colour and texture.
Take your
piece of scrap paper and I'm gonna go
with blue first. tear off a bit like that and
crumple it up in your fingers
then take some glue and you spread it on
the column and you put your rolled up
paper on the glue. you take another scrap, you roll it up, you put it on the glue.
now with this kind of glue I usually
just pat it a little bit and then wait
for it to stick, but if you have a
different type of glue you have to kind
of check what to do, and then you just
continue doing this until it's all
covered and it's up to you how big or
small you make the little rolled up
pieces of paper and that will give you a
different effect. I'll show you a few
things you can do next. I'm going to continue
using blue here on the column but I'm
going to swap to a different shade of
blue to give it a bit of a different
look to it. and I'm gonna fill up the
column and then for the capital I'm
going to use purple to make sure that it
looks different.
For the first two columns I've decided to do
something different and not roll up the
pieces of paper instead giving it that
kind of mosaic, look it's also much
faster, but I've kept to my color scheme.
you can also so see here now at this point
I'm using a pen or the rubber to help me
line up the pieces of paper because my
fingers are really sticky.
All six are
now done and finished. We're going to
move on to the metopes and triglyphs and
the pediment. So for the triglyphs I
decided to go with pink and yellow but
the metopes and the architrave I first
thought of doing blue in this mosaic way
but it was just too much blue. I'm going
to change that later, and then I moved on
to the pediment which I did in a variety
of colours and that's to show the
different carvings and colours that it would
normally have. Here is my temple
in all it's finished beautiful colours.
Fun fact, while today most of the colour is
gone. There's abundant evidence that Greek
temples were painted when they were
originally made.
I used gold for the
architrave, black, red, and brown, from
chocolate wrappers on the steps.
and I decided to leave the metopes blank,
because it was just too much colour!
I hope you have lots of fun on this
activity, if you make it big on A3 paper
it's really easy for the whole family to
get stuck in, as everybody can do
their bit of the temple and it all comes
together at the end!
 
