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Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
These geometric pets each have an extraordinary story and were made without the help of any tools.
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Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
We're practicing making geometric shapes with simple and precise lines and curves, with the help of a ruler and compass. Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
Students are continuing to practice drawing the contour edges of representational shapes with these little pumpkins. I am so impressed with their drawing skills and and creative painting choices! Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
Students learned how to freehand draw the contour edge of objects with the Trace-Copy-Draw method, then drew and painted these colorful Autumn leaves! Fantastic! Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
The first drawing assignment the students completed independently was based on Joan Miro's Automatic Style Drawing technique. They randomly drew various types of lines and emphasized a figure with more lines and colors. These are AMAZING! These homeschool moms are amazing! Even on their night off, they want to learn and develop as teachers. They impressed me and inspired me by following my instructions and unleashing their creativity! Well done! Your kids should be proud. By the way, this lesson can be downloaded for FREE at the link below.
We started to a new semester, but we're continuing to build our drawing skills onto last semester's lessons. The new art element is: TEXTURE. "Texture is the illusion of a surface quality made by repeating lines, shapes and colors with variety." Here are some examples of texture in famous artwork. All of them are paintings, except for the rhino, which is an etching. Some words we use to describe texture are: bumpy, rough, wet, cool, soft, furry, fluffy, silky, prickly, fuzzy, grassy, and smooth.  I had the students carefully observe the texture in the illustrations of "Where the Wild Things are", by Maurice Sendak, while I read the story to them. We practiced making texture with repeating lines and shapes. Then we drew our rumpusing monsters.  Here's the Step-by-Step lesson with the texture practice page: 
Some students drew representationally by carefully observing a photograph of a chameleon. Others drew a step-by-step chameleon based on Leo Leoni's book: A Color of His Own. Check out this video about how chameleon's change their color: We continued our pattern theme by learning how to draw symmetrical abstract bugs with line, shape and color patterns. Pattern is the new art element that we added today in our art lesson. Here's the definition: A pattern is a design that repeats lines, shapes and/or colors with the same spacing or similar arrangement. Students learned how to repeat alternating geometric shapes and colors in a grid pattern with crayons and watercolor.  |
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