Value Drawings

Students have been learning how to see value and accurately represent it with graphite. They learned quickly and did a beautiful job on these. We talked a lot about some artist's tendency to go too dark or stay too light in value. I wanted them to notice this so they can work to develop their drawings completely.

Students worked from photos.

Big Cats Painting

Students have been learning how to draw animals by using contour line and seeing hidden shapes.

They worked on large paper and drew a big cat from a photograph. Then we painted a watercolor background using various techniques...wet in wet, salt, scratching.

Next,students mixed tempera paint to create different values and painted them according to their photo.

Charcoal Owls

I...Love...These...Owls!  My semi-private lesson students learned to work with and layer 3 kinds of charcoal- vine, pencil, and white charcoal.  They also were using a knead eraser as a drawing tool pulling out highlights.  These were done from observation of a black and white photograph.  I did this as a follow up to a lesson in value drawing. I wish I could post more photos, but I am out of photo space on blogger and will have to work on this issue.