The purpose of art education is to promote the child's ability to develop their own mind. Eisner
Color Palette Binge: Watch your favorite movie or T.V. series. Make a color swatch book of the main colors you find in a particular scene or throughout the movie. Create an artwork that responds to your new color palette.
Sound Off: Go outside and document all the sounds you hear. Or make a sensory journal to describe all of your senses in a new experience. Make sketches, jot down notes, record sounds, take photos. Using this new collection, create a poem or short story. Then, make an artwork.
Mundane How-Tos: Make a PBJ sandwich, tie your shoes, teach someone how to whistle. Document the steps it takes to teach this ordinary task. Then, make an instructional document to teach someone how to do a mundane task. Create a zine, a comic page, an illustrated artwork, or a video.
I am sharing this artwork because my students are interested in learning to draw realistically. this is how I have been practicing.
Original image I recreated in chalk pastel. First I used a grid method to resize and draw the image, once I had the birds drawn lightly in pencil, I applied the pastel. I do not own the image.
My reproduction; My goal was to practice drawing and learn different pastel techniques.