Teacher Examples: Mrs. Tabitha Morgan
Student Examples
from Fall 2022
Paislee
Eduardo
Michelle C., Paislee
Kaden, Ajia, Jaidyn, & Kinslee
Kaylee W., Selena M., Kaylee R,
Melanie C., Maria, & Jazmyn
We will start this project by practicing drawing cactus...
Study the different kinds of cactii,
There are many different kinds of Cactii.
If you look closely, many of the various kinds use contour lines.
2 of your cactus need to use the concept of contour line
(what we used on the Pumpkin Resist and Water Drop).
Once you have gotten the hang of drawing the forms of the Sagura and Echino,
you will plan a desert landscape drawing using these techniques:
1. Showing Space with OVERLAPPING
2. Showing Space with Positioning or PLACEMENT.
-the closer objects are to the HORIZON LINE, the further they are.
3. Showing Space with SIZE (further objects are smaller).
4. Creative Detail to add interest to your drawing.
5. Monochromatic Shading and Highlighting-
use of only one color, but varying in tints and shades.
It means that your picture appears to be going up, down, back, forward,
and expands past the picture space. If you add SPACE to your picture, it appears to go on forever.
How do you add SPACE to your pictures?
From Arte a Scuola
Plan out your COMPOSITION for your desert LANDSCAPE.
Below you see students planning on manilla paper,
Things that are in the foreground will be very big, maybe even go off the page to frame the picture.
Things in the middleground will usually be fully seen.
The background could be something on the horizon far away, the sky or things in the sky.
Layering Monochromatic Paper
Background, middleground, foreground.
Using value, getting lighter as it goes back.
Choose your paper and tools.
Find tools that are the same color as your paper, but a shade or tint of you paper.
You can also use black and white to alter the paper color.
After drawing your scene with pencil, begin EMPHASIZING the details
while adding consistent shade and highlights.
Middle Version
CHALLENGE VERSION!!!!
I used 3 papers: foreground (darker), middle ground (midtone) and background (lightest).
I cut the foreground paper lower, the middle ground paper center and left the background paper full
