Baker Barbie

Toys draws of the creativity of students and yes, even adults. 

Lego is a living examples. 

This teen, like many young girls adore Barbie. And she decided to illustrate one of her favourite toy in her new tole.  

Owl

The Owls rotund shape and distinct features makes them easiest bird to draw.

For this project, students spent a few minutes dabbing diluted paint on paper. This is a good way to empty paint tubes or buckers after all every bit to save on materials counts and to add to the translucency try adding gold dust into the water which I am sure your students will love.

Once the paint is dry, start drawing and filling in colours. 

designs by Bill

 Refreshing Designs by Bill aged 13.

Drawing in Chinese Ink

Chinese Ink on Rice Paper has its advantages and I think for beginners it is more forgiving than watercolour. 

This medium is used  to demonstrate how to paint gently compared to Acrylic and without tearing a hole in the paper. The fast drying ink allows students to add colours almost immediately without having to "wait for next week". 

   Corals

    Cat thinking of dinner

    Flying Insects

 

 

[exterior] neighbourhood playground

Here are some lovely pieces done on a saturday, over 1.25hrs. i am extremely excited because the next session we have an outdoor drawing, i plan to up the level a notch, seeing all were able to capture the basic form /structure. :) it took a while but they got there. 

[Animals] Density through Circles

This is a pre-cross hatching exercise. I had found while student-artists are able to cross-hatched, only a handful are sensitive to the gradient of tones, many are not able to clearly gage the subtle different. And what's more, cross-hatching is tiring. 

Hence I decided to employ circles to execute a project on Density. Each class was given an photograph of an animal to observe and draw. Then as a class, we go through the circles with the following guide with three sets of circles
1. Small and many circles = Dark areas
2. Large and few circles = Light areas
3. Medium circles = In between

I am so excited about the results to push through another set of projects with similar learning points. 

waiting for a cheetah to be done. 

christmas bear