Welcome Wednesday Artists!

What a great class! Today was the first class for my new "mini" art class. We meet twice a month for class. I will get pictures up on the sidebar of my new artists once I take photos of them. My new students include: Rachel Beddes, Madison Cowart, Arika Hedrick, and Tyler Seitz. They were a lot of fun and energy. It's going to be a great class!

Today we had introductions, then we talked about some basic tools of drawing - pencils, erasers, and blending tools. We experimented with hard and soft lead pencils, three types of erasers, and tried using our fingers and blending stumps for blending and smudging. We also talked about composition of a subject, perspective, and adding detail. Then we drew our shoes, and I asked the kids to implement some of the things we had talked about. Here are their drawings:

Arika (8) - Great attention to the details. Madi (8) Beautiful blending on her flip flop.

Rachel (8) Great job creating an interesting composition.

Tyler (7) Careful attention to the contour of his croc.

As an early finisher assignment the kids worked on sketching three dimensional objects. Here are a couple cubes below.

Rachel (8) Tyler (7)

Painting teaser

Delaney's sketch.
Just a teaser for the paintings that I hope to post soon! The girls are working on an assignment I am calling "Create Your Own Wild Thing." They are painting acrillic on canvas board. I think they are going to turn out great.

Above is Delaney's sketch of her very own wild thing. Pretty frightening if you ask me! Stay tuned for their finished paintings.