Watercolor pets, ages 8 to 12

This was our final class before summer break. We finished our lessons using watercolor and we used pictures of our pets (or animals we like). They all did a geat job working with the texture of the fur/skin, seeing the lights, darks and shapes. We also did a quick project doing some paper marbling. We took the finished paper and made greeting cards out of them. I forgot to photograph to share...

Students, enjoy your time off!

Alexa

Louis

Morgan

Alaina

Alex

Oil Pastel Pets

We had a small class this week and I was able to work with two of my newer students.

They brought photos of their pets and worked on some thumbnails learning how to look for simple shapes and how they relate. It is not easy, but with practice...

Then we used the same formula to draw on a big page and worked in oil pastels to draw the texture of the fur. They learned to "clump" areas of the fur...

Very nice job!

Alexa

Alaina

Watercolor Tree Shapes, ages 8 to 11

It takes a while for a student to learn to draw what they see and not what they think they see. Take a tree shape... so many kinds of trees, all alittle different...

We used black and white photo references and looked at the tree shapes... the leaves, not as individual, but as shapes/clumps with a light side and dark side....

We also looked at the shape of the road, where it comes off the page, how it wraps around... and shadows.

The students really simplified what needed to be and played with some color. Nice job!

Louis

Morgan

Alexa

Alaina

Alex

and an extra sky from Alex