Crazy Mac n Cheese

It was a fun night with the Club House Artists, although half of them were out sick. I hated that they missed because we drew such cute and fun drawings. They also learned a new "tool box" term. Grouping.
Here I thought drawing simple macaroni would be quick and easy as a warm up drawing and it turned out to be very frustrating for them. The angles were hard to grasp, but they finally got it. The noodles were supposed to be jumping, singing, and dancing. Then we decided they were dancing because they were trying to get out of the hot bowl before the person ate them!
Next we tried a grouping of frogs. We discussed how a grouping should be similar objects that go together.

Value Scales and Practice

The Club House Artists needed a review on the value scale and shading practice so we practiced on a simple cylinder and also created a value scale to show the value steps. I'm also posting some Christmas manger drawings from the holiday season. Enjoy.

December Catch Up

Here are drawings from the past couple of weeks.

 

These are my students from my homeschooling group.

Presents Galore!

For the holidays both classes drew gifts. One class learned how to stack cubes and the other focused on putting objects inside of each other.

 

Super Letters

Today we focused on creating 3D letters. We've spent a lot of time in the past on objects but have never really touched on how to draw letters. I showed the Club House Artists how to create two different styles of 3D lettering. One was the chisel look the other we called Super Letters, much like Superman style lettering. I also introduced a new tool box term, Perspective.
In the past our perspective of most of our objects has been beside or slightly above the object, but today we tried drawing from underneath the object. Our perspective changed and instead of seeing the tops of our boxes we could see the bottom.

 

Legoman Army

This week was full of hundreds of drawings by my students. It was overwhelming to see so many kids draw so well with one lesson. There were three themes, presents, tiki huts, and Lego people.

My Wednesday class had a special challenge this week. I had them take the same basic drawing of the Lego man and change it into a different object. They choose a newspaper stand. This was a great exercise to show them how easy it is to draw anything by using the same basic 3D shapes.