It's Friday again!

Where does the time go? Well, for me, time always flies when you're making art. Today is going to be our "catch up day". Students who are not finished with their facial features projects will have time to get caught up. And students who are finished will be given the opportunity to work on two design contest. I can't believe there are only 8 days until Winter Break! Have a great weekend!

Smile...

it's almost Friday, so today we are learning how to draw lips!

Take time to stop and smell the roses

Well, that is good advice but we aren't slowing down around here with only 10 more school days until Christmas break there is no time for stopping. :)

Today we are learning how to draw noses. I personally think this is the hardest facial feature to learn how to draw because there are so few edges in the nose. The drawing has to be created with lots of gradual blending. So we are going to go through the process of shading, blending, erasing, and repeating until we get it just right. I think they'll see a big improvement from the drawing they did of a nose on Monday!

Wonder what we could be learning today...

You guessed it! Today we are learning how to draw an ear.

We are finish with perspective and moving on to realistic facial features and eventually a self-portrait. But we begin by learning how to draw individual facial features. Today we are learning how to draw realistic eyes! This is one of my favorite projects because this is always so much growth between when students start this project to once they have finished it. and the amazing thing is at it all happens in the span of a week!

e-card contest designs

Cabarrus County Schools is having a holiday e-card contest.
Here are some of the entries from our classes. They are great, aren't they?

by Olga
by Kara and Taylor
by Jordan

Today we are finishing up our city-scape drawings in 2-point perspective. They look awesome. And the students seem to really be understanding 2-point perspective.