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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Zen Pumpkin


Pumpkins are a great example for contour lines. 
All the lines a pumpkin begin at the top of the stem and end at the navel on the bottom. 
What other objects have lines that start at the top and end at the bottom? 
Once you learn the concept of drawing contour lines, you can draw so much more!






When drawing the pumpkin, start with the shape and size drawn lightly with a pencil. 
Draw a straight line down the middle. 

Draw contour lines on both sides of the straight lines. 
Contour lines curve to the left on the left side and curve right to the right side. 
They ends of the lines join back up with the original middle straight line. 
Add stem details. 
When it looks right, make it darker or outline with marker....

Use references for ZenTangles, doodles, or types of lines to fill in each area. 



See the above done in fast motion here...


Advanced Alternative, Use a pencil to color along the left sides of each bump. Use a q-tip to blend the pencil. 
Add fun color to the background to emphasize and make the pumpkins pop out. 

I used markers above and crayons below. 
Either will work our great. 















Pencil Power

Peyton in 1st grade

Mrs. Seaton-Morgan's Pencils

How to create a pencil on Colored Paper


Begin with pencil....

Color...
Mrs. Simbles class




Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Winter Bulletin Board Mural



Here's the plan...

Butcher paper


Add snowflakes (kindergarten)
Baylor's class

Add Birch trees (1st grade)
McGinley's class

Skinny blue...

Thick white...


Use curved line & dot patterns with black marker.

4th grade
Mahon & Meleski's classes
Sleeping Woodland creatures...






Monday, November 16, 2015

Sleeping Shadow Fox


Mrs. Maddox's 5th grade (Tuesday class)
(Above)

How to create it; 
Glue sky paper down on top of white big paper. Only glue edges. Decorate top with winter details. 
Drawing the fox. 
Or other style
Making the cast shadow....
Staple corner of fox to a blue paper (blue should be the same size and underneath)
Cut out fox from orange and blue simultaneously. 

Laying down the cast shadow...
Glue shadow down up side flipped over, like a mirror image. Ears should be listed
Painting same way, but fox flipped. 
Laying down fox. 
Glue fox down slightly overlapping shadow by 1/4 inch. 
I added paw prints leading from horizon to fox. They should get bigger as they get closer (perspective law). 

Quicker version;