Bad Hair Day

 Bad Hair Day

Line Quality Drawing

 

This assignment helps students with their line quality.  It is important to have students learn how to control their lines so their drawings are easier.  I teach them how to draw a basic face.  They then start above the eyebrows and add lines that they can match.  I have them change their lines about every 1/2' or 1 ".  I have them draw the face with a pencil.  they have to draw about three of the line groups before I let them go over them with marker, so I can see if they understand it.  Then I let them go for it with the fine tip marker.

Batik Drawings

Crayon and Black Watercolor

 

 

This assignment is done on regular drawing paper.  The students draw out their image and then use crayons to blend and shade their colors.  It is very important that there is not white paper showing at all.  Once it is all colored in you crumble it up being careful not to tear it or put holes in it.  Then you flatten it out with your hands and then use black watercolor paint and paint over it.  Use a wet paper towel to wipe off excess paint.  You want the paint in the cracks.  Then when it is dry turn it upside down on newsprint paper with a terry cloth towel underneath and iron it flat.  You need to have the wax melt a little where it shows through on the back.

 

Adjective Drawing

Adjective Drawing

Creative Problem Solving

 

This assignment helps students with their creative problem solving skills.  I have the students find and adjective in a dictionary.  The word needs to be something that they can draw. Examples are sweet, scary, slimy....I have them choose positive things that do not put down people.  They do a rough draft and then use colored pencils to blend, shade and burnish.  we work on composition and how it should fit onto the paper.