Thursday, October 25, 2012

Skeleton Study





 

8th grade study of skeletons... just in time for Halloween and just over 2 class periods. After drawing them as realistically as possible, they used 2 different colors of oil pastel to show value.









Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Color Theory Trees

After a quick refresher on the color wheel, my 8th grade students whipped out these BEAUTIFUL trees that I had to share!! I am so impressed, they remind me of stained glass art!






 
Students first drew their tree outline in pencil, and had to use all 12 colors from the color wheel to fill in the negative spaces.  The last step was painting their trees black.  They were very happy with the results!

Monday, October 15, 2012

Don't let Kindergarten Draw the Pigeon!

I LOVE Mo Willem's books.  And so do my Kindergarten students!  After reading 2 of his books, "The Pigeon Wants a Puppy" and "The Duckling Gets a Cookie" we learned how to draw this wonderful, silly pigeon.







After drawing him as large as possible with pencil, we used tempera paint to outline the Pigeon.