Woven Hearts
This fun Valentine’s project took 2 lessons to complete. The first class we painted two sheets of watercolour paper in contrasting colors. In the second we cut the corners off one side of each paper to create a rounded end,…
Self-Portraits in Spray Paint
Students printed out a photo selfie, and used as a base to cut out sections in a plastic overlay with an exacto knife. Once these sections were cut out, they could be used as a stencil. The canvas board was…
Dragons on Silk
Students planned a unique dragon to paint, and sketched it out in their sketchbooks. We did a few practice runs with the silk paint, blending colors and using salt for effect. Students then traced their dragon (some did it free…
Dancing Camels
Inspired by the book Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker- Rees. Students practiced drawing realistic and cartoon camels before creating their own unique dancing camel final version. We then colored these camels with colored pencil. The background…
Monsters
Masks
Students came up with a theme for their masks on their own, researched ideas and images, and then drew a plan in their sketchbook. These masks were created using a plastic face base. We then placed plastic wrap on the…
Continuous Contour Line Portraits
To get a good understanding of continuous contour drawing, I like to watch Anna Stump’s video with the class. Students used mirrors, and create a continuous contour line portrait of themselves using permanent black marker and a large paper. Once…
Georgia O’Keefe Inspired Collage
Our class spent some time looking at work by Georgia O’Keefe. Using some of the borrowed skulls and bones from the science department, we did a drawing study of bones. Trying out various techniques including hatching, cross-hatching, stippling and blending…
Ink Painting Trees
To create these ink tree paintings, we used watercolor paper, and liquid watercolors. We painted the backgrounds first, taping down the edges beforehand to get a border. Once the background was dry, we used black ink and painted a long…
Day of Dead Wax Resist Skulls
We looked at the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) and looked at sugar skulls made for holiday for inspiration. Then students created their own design for a skull in their sketchbook. From this plan,…