Are you my mother?

When looking at today's baby dinosaur drawings, I'm reminded of the book, "Are you my mother?" We used foreshortened circles to draw an egg that had been cracked opened by our baby T-Rex.

Most of this class has never drawn a foreshortened square. The Club House Artists learned how to use their guide dots to start their foreshortened square and they turned it into a stone. They also learned about "size", another tool box word. They also created a Flintstone inspired drawing. To demonstarte size, we drew a large dinosaur that took up most of the page. Then we drew a much smaller dinosaur behind our large one creating a sense of space.

Some super awesome dinos Club House Artists!

StoneAge Dinos

The Club House Artists learned a new tool box word tonight. They learned how "size" can help they drawings have depth which creates 3D space. We decided to go with a dinosaur theme and tried drawing a baby dinosaur hatching from it's egg as a warm up. Then we discussed how to use size in a drawing. We drew a dinosaur right in front of us and made him take up the whole page and then drew a dinosaur much smaller behind him to make him look further away. We created a "Flintstone" world with our dinosaurs so we could also practice our forshorten squares and cubes. (Don't forget to click on the drawings to enlarge them.)

A Salute to our Club House Artists

A couple of our Club House Artists are on vacation visiting a tropical paradise. We decided to pretend we were there too with our pina coladas and coconuts. The Club House Artists learned about overlapping to help make their still life more interesting and 3D!

Then we also jumped into Super Mario Land and drew our own version. The Club House Artists had a lot of fun with this project. They loved adding all the characters and 1 UPS!

Pipe Dreams

Our 6's gained another 6 to the group this week. Boy, she didn't miss a beat with this group! We kept telling her throughout the class that by her drawings it seems like she's been with us since the beginning.

A previous student wanted to draw Super Mario Bros. after a class on foreshortened circles. I had him do it for homework since we didn't get a chance to in class. When thinking about introducing foreshortened circles to new students I decided that we would finally do our version of Super Mario Bros. It worked perfectly for our new students to grasp the idea. We had a lot of fun creating our version of Mario land. Enjoy! (Click to enlarge drawings)