Tag Archives: Drawing

Just Zebrafy It.

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 7/8:  Rendering Silhouettes in Zebra Stripes Here’s a bit of fun.  A relatively quick project, well placed in between 2 rather extensive ones. Previously, I suggested they bring a picture of something they might want to draw – something … Continue reading →

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Light Pictures, Abstracted

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 6:  Reworking Our Light Photographs As promised, here are the results when we hand manipulated our photographs.  Earlier, we had a photo session using coloured flashlights and a laser pointer on a black ground in a darkened room with … Continue reading →

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Blind Contour Gets Wired

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 6:  Taking Contour Drawing Further In the class following the first blind contour drawings, we continued with drawing self portraits.  Everyone got a mirror, and with fresh instruction about drawing from close observation – out came the Sharpies again. … Continue reading →

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Our First Light Drawings

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 6:  Drawing With Light The students have been studying electricity, and had just finished some work with contour line drawing, so … We took some time to play!  I told them about artists who use long exposures, movement, and … Continue reading →

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No Peeking: We’re Doin’ Blind Contour

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 6:  Drawing Blind Contour I wish you could have seen the kids’ faces … I told them we were going to do some drawing BUT they had to do it in one continuous line (NOT lifting the pen from … Continue reading →

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Drawing a White Still Life

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 7/8:  Using Pencil Shading Techniques / White on White After each student completed their shading line exercises, it was time to take that and apply it to a drawing.  I set up an all white still life of basic … Continue reading →

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3D Zentangles, Boxed

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 4/5 Altered Zentangle Drawings This was one of the first projects of the year, though I have only photographed them recently.  It was going to be like a lesson I did in a previous year, but a couple of … Continue reading →

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Synthetic Cubism and Even More Guitars (and Violins!)

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 7/8 Drawn and Altered Collage Class 1. Moving on from their earlier lesson & project on Cubism, we spent some more time looking at images of the movement that evolved out of it: Synthetic Cubism.  We looked at the … Continue reading →

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Three Guitars

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 5 & 6 Painting / Colours as Music Genre This project brought out some of the guitar heroes I didn’t even know about – it was very cool to hear from some of the kids who have been learning … Continue reading →

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The P.O. Art Challenges of 2011-12

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Art Education

  Every few weeks of the year, I have run an Art Challenge with the students of Parliament Oak Elementary School.  It is completely voluntary, and is not connected with their schoolwork.  The entries are judged by myself and an … Continue reading →

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