Shape, Value and Texture, Ages 12 to 14

We talked about drawing... contour lines and recognizing value changes. Then we talked about texture and did some thumbnails. Then the students drew an orange and egg, keeping proportion, texture, value and reflections in mind. We also did a paintbrush to try other textures.

 

 

 

 

 

Favorite Numbers ages 8 to 11

The students had a piece of paper to do thumbnails drawings. But first they wrote down their favorite number, color and some ideas that relate to their number. We shared our ideas and then came up with these fun drawings done on illustration board with colored pencil. Can you find the thing that relates to each number?

 

 

  

  

  

 

 

 

Winter Birds ages 9 to 12

Can you believe how awesome these images are?
Oil pastel on 18 x 24 Canson paper.

 

 

 

 

 

Poinsettia, ages 9 to 12

I do a poinsettia class with my adult students every year. As I was teaching them, I thought, my student class could to this too.  So we talked about point of view. Instead of drawing the plant from the side with the pot, like most of us would, we looked at it from the top, bottom... and chose to try from the top. Now this is a tough thing to do because you really have to look and separate the layers so that you can paint with a plan. We also talked about painting in the negative areas of the petals to show the lighter colored lines. Nice Job!

 

 

 

 

Slate Paintings ages 9 to 12

I had some slate and thought it would make a great holiday project. The students picked a subject and painted with acrylic and then sealed the slate. I will update this post as they finish more. They have some great ideas to try.

Tromp l'oeil envelopes, age 12

We set up some envelopes and trinkets and then copied them as realistically as possible using colored pencils on illustration board. I smeared out the addresses for this post, but you can still see what a great job they did.

 

 

Tea and Lemons, Ages 9 and 10

We set up a still life and the students took their time with their thumbnail drawings. 

Then they painted with acrylic on canvas board. 

We talked about the shapes of the objects, 

overlapping, shadows and highlights. 

It is great when they take their time to observe and paint what they see.

 

 

Geometric Animals, ages 8 and 9

This is a nice project that I use as a filler to give other students time to catch up with their projects.
The students pick an animal, break it into geometric shapes, pick a color theme and paint with tempera on 15x15 inch illustration board.

 

 

Picasso Music Shapes, ages 8 to 12

We looked at some Picasso music themed paintings/collages.

The students chose their subject, worked out thumbnails 

and used cut paper on 18 x 24 inch illustration board to finish.

 

 

 

 

 

More falling leaves, ages 8 to 12

The colors of turning leaves just speak "watercolor lesson " to me.  So the students took some leaves and drew them on 11x14 inch watercolor paper. We outlined the leaves with masking fluid and then used a wet on wet technique to color the leaves. Then painted the blue sky, also done on wet paper, removed the masking fluid and "voila".

  

 

  

 

Slices of Fall ages 8 to 10

The students learned a little about wet on wet technique with watercolor and did two fall images.

We cut the images into equal 1 inch sections and glued them on board to make patterns. We never know what will happen but they always are a pleasant surprise. I posted the before and after.

 

falling leaves ages 12

 

I just love falling leaves. We talked about the focal point in an image and one way to create one.

The same project, different voices, both successful.