Line Drawing Animals

For this project we talk about line quality, pattern, and design. The students were asked to choose an animal to create an online, then fill in the shape with interesting patterns and line work. I love color, but also love the challenge of creating something really interesting in black and white. Here are some of their pictures below.

Alyssa

Mikayla

Delaney

Watercolor Colors!

This assignment was an exercise in watercolor. My goal was to have the girls be more creative in their color choices. I also wanted the girls to get familiar with the brushes and behavior of the tube watercolors we were using. This exercise melded my two goals.

I challenged the girls to mix the paint colors and fill the entire grid. They were asked to try not to make the same color more than once! (And trust me, that is a challenge with all those squares.) I think we will do this exercise again, it is such great practice and really pushes an artist to stretch.

Here are are a couple examples below. How do you think they did?

Alyssa

Mikayla

One more flower!

Here is Delaney's finished piece. She often gets posted separately because she always makes sure to spend the time to make everything just right! She did a beautiful job on her Georgia O'Keeffe inspired painting.