More Bananas

We had so much fun drawing bananas yesterday and the dragon in the mailbox that my Thurs. night crew drew the same thing. This dragon is being mailed to Germany!

Here are their drawings from the previous two classes. Two talented young ladies.

Dr. Seuss's Birthday

I had other plans for our two drawings when I came to class today, but the Club House Artists tweaked them a bit and we ended up drawing to the theme of Dr. Seuss. Thank goodness for the iPad so we could quickly look up the characters to make sure we drew them correctly. They ended up being really cute drawings. Do you think you can figure out what my original drawing plans were? (Answer at the bottom.)

 

 

Answer: Magic Hat with Rabbit, Princess and the Pea

Point of perspective

I read a sentence from a story and asked the Club House Artists how would they illustrate the story. We talked about what angle to draw our illustration according to the words in the sentence. Here's the story:

"Flynn look up at the tall tower where Rapunzel was waiting."

 

 

As you can see the Club House Artists drew the tower from the perspective of Flynn looking up at the tower. They made sure that you could see underneath the tower structure instead of from above.

Our second drawing the Club House Artists picked. Since they were studying about the Presidents for President's Day, they all wanted to draw Abe Lincoln. They were able to tell me all kinds of facts about the president and even details about his letters he would hide in his hat. So we decided to focus on his tall hat as if it were in a museum for all to see and as a reminder of his letters he drew a letter on the outside of his hat. It's always interesting to see what they come up with for our drawings each week. Sometimes I have ideas on what we might draw and other times it starts with a sentence and goes from there.

 

A Fantasmic Night of Drawing

I was listening to the radio today and they were making an announcement about an area orchestra that was going to perform songs from Harry Potter and Fantasia. The rest of the day I had Sorcerer Mickey on the brain which gave me an idea for our next drawing session.

I first had the club house artists watch "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from Fantasia. We talked about the shapes of the buckets, shading, and the shadows. We also talked about how Mickey's hat was basic shapes put together.

So off we went to the drawing tables to draw objects from Fantasia. We started off with a warm up drawing of Mickey's hat. We talked about using folds and overlapping to make the hat seem more 3D. (click on images to enlarge them.)

Then we were ready to draw the brooms carrying the water buckets. The girls were able to quickly draw the buckets since they are masters of foreshortened circles now and then we worked on the broom. I personally did not like putting faces on the brooms. The ones in the movie did not have a face and I liked that, BUT. . .when you have three girls in the same room together they change things and they all added faces. They said they thought it looked cute with a face. Oh well. . . pretty neat drawings again!

The girls also received their certificates for completing the first session. Which now makes them official Pen & Mouse Club House Artists! They were excited. They should be as they are the first members!