One Line Contour

 

This week's art class was about "single line contour".  We had several photos of Batman villains; some from current movies and some from the old TV  series in the 60's.  Students had to choose a starting point and contour draw the complete character without lifting the pen.  These kids range in age from 9 to 14.  Their results were amazing!

Try it...  it's takes a lot of planning to figure out how to move through the image and figure out how and where to move from one feature to another.

 



Draw a word

 

This week's art class was just too much fun!  I bought a book at Goodwill for $2 and cut the pages out of it.  The kids were given a page and told to find a word on the page and draw a picture.  Very, very fun!   Here are the words they found.

 

Mustache

 

Duck

 

Keys

 

Bathroom

 

Murder

 

Kitchen

 

Sheriff

 

Beetle 

 

Pajamas

 

Cat

 

 



Sun painted t-shirts

 

Arts students are busy creating sun painted t-shirts.  We are using a product from Dharma Trading (check out their website) called Set-a-color.  We spread our damp t-shirts out on cardboard covered with plastic bags.   I mixed paint in water bottles with holes in the caps.  Kids squirted it onto the shirts and spread paint around with their hands. Earlier we had gathered leaves, cut out patterns from heavy card stock and planned the layouts of our designs on our shirts.  After the shirts were painted we pinned on our shapes and left them in the sun to dry. 



 

 

 

 

Rinsed shirts drying on the line.  Wow!

 

 

This was a cool idea.  Suzette cut out of  her shirt and tied it together across the bottom creating a tote bag.

 

 Judith, Alexis, Jocelyn and Ashley

 

Proud of the shirts?  I guess!

 

 

Natalie and David



Teacher Goes to Class - Sketch Seattle at Pike Place Market

I'm "stepping up to the plate" today....  I've posted the kids artwork over their objections and nervousness about "sharing" their artwork.  I keep telling them it's part of getting good at what you do...  "It's how you grow..."  (I normally get a big eye roll here.)  Soooooo...  I can expect no less from myself.

 

I had the great opportunity to take a class from Derek Gundy and Ron Stocke of "Sketch Seattle".  We spent the day sketching at the Pike Place Market.  It was insane!!  Not only was it a very busy tourist Saturday in July there was an exhibition soccer game and a Mariner's Game.  Millions, and millions of people...  (I'm exaggerating but not much!)  I expected to casually sketch the flower vendors, the fish throwing guys, the clock, the pig... you know, the usual stuff.  Not even close!  If you live here and really want to see that stuff wait until October on a rainy Wednesday.  Those wise instructors wanted to help us learn to do quick sketches of real people (I think there were enough subjects to choose from); find little pockets to "tuck in and sketch" and, of course, get over some of the" drawing in public phobia".    Well done, Derek and Ron!!!  I'm pretty sure I can draw just about anything, any place, with a minimum of tools.  Here's everything I drew.  Yes, even the ones I thought were really bad and wanted to rip out and throw away.  Sometimes I learn the most from the worst stuff...

 

No flower vendors, no produce... but gosh!  I had to stop at Undercover Quilts!!  Hi, Linda...

 

 

Class was great if you're interested in learning some great stuff and spending an amazing day check out Ron and Derek's website:Sketch Seattle