Drawing
Fractured Drawings
Students created drawings from different view points and sizes. A variety of drawing materials were incorporated such as: ink, graphite, colored pencils and oil pastels. Students displayed skills and techniques learned throughout the semester.
Realistic Oil Pastel Drawings
Colored Pencil Acrylic Paint Blobs
Large Grid Portrait Drawings
Students explored ink pens to create value and texture portraits.
Value Drawing using Multiples
Students used up close images of objects in multiple perspectives to draw on 4x4 papers. Each drawing demonstrates value scales and use of graphite pencils.
Portrait Contour Line Drawings
Students learned how to observe and draw from life to create contour drawings. These are quick drawings capturing the outline of the subject without lifting your drawing tool. Afterwards, students colored and added patterns, lines, and shapes for more interest. They are incredible!!!
Textural Ink & Scratch Art Drawings
Portraits
Students are studying how to draw realistic portraits. These skills will be applied to a final portrait drawing using a variety of drawing materials. The portraits features are emphasized, cropped, fragmented or altered to create an interesting composition.
Blind Contour Portraits
Students learned how to draw using contour lines, but without looking at their paper. Instead, they could only look at the subject. This is a great hand-eye coordination drawing skill. It forces the artist to look carefully at the subject matter. Students had a fun time creating these whimiscal portraits.
Sweet Confections
Students drew sweet confections using prisma colored pencils. Value and a grid were used to show realism.
Personal Still Life Drawings and Handscapes
Creative Doodles
Students started with a drawing line or shape to create individual or combined images. The use of value and details were incorporated.
Daily Doodle Books
Each class period, students drew a 10 minute drawing based on a prompt. All the drawing were collected and made into a small book.
Oil Pastel Portraits
Students learned how to blend and use oil pastels to create vivid colorful portraits.
Prisma Colored Pencil Grid Drawings
Students applied and demonstrated prisma colored pencils in a colorful bird drawing. Students also used a grid technique to draw their image exactly as the photo. Many layers and blending were applied to create a realistic drawing.
Ink Technique Landscapes
Students created landscapes using a variety of line techniques. Colored sharpies and gel pens were used to apply to the final artwork.
Fall Still Life
Students used graphite techniques and value to create realistic still life drawings.
1 & 2 Point Perspective Fantasy, Mythical, Surreal or Past Drawings
Students learned how to draw using 1 & 2 point perspective to create original drawings. Students applied the drawing skills and techniques learned throughout the semester.
Reptile Eyes using Oil Pastels
Students created an up close drawing of a reptile eye and used oil pastels to blend. These are absolutely amazing.
Colorful Candy Prismacolor Drawings
Students drew a variety of candy using a grid technique. Students applied prismacolor to demonstrate value, depth and realism.
Portrait Grid Drawings
Students created grid drawings using black and white photos. Value was applied to each grid square using graphite and ink techniques.
Observational Pop Can Drawings using VALUE
Students created realistic graphite drawings of smashed pop cans. Each drawing is unique and explores the use of VALUE.
Surrealism Drawings
Surrealist artists—like Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, or Michael Cheval, among many others—seek to explore the unconscious mind as a way of creating art, resulting in dreamlike, sometimes bizarre imagery across endless mediums. The core of Surrealism is a focus on illustrating the mind’s deepest thoughts automatically when they surface. This thought process for creating art known as “automatism.”
Students created Surrealism drawings using one or more Surrealism ideas: Levitation, Scale, Juxtaposition and Transformation. Each drawing focusing on skills and materials used throughout the semester.
Photo Booth Drawings
Students created a character to draw in a series of four. The drawings depict images of the character taken in a photo booth.
Up Close Facial Features:
Exploring with Oil Pastels, Color & Value
Textured Drawings
Students created textural ink drawings and doodles inspired by guest artist, Chase Gentry.
Doodle Drawing with guest artist:
Chase Gentry
Students created doodle drawings that were passed around and drawn on by their classmates to create collaborative works. These drawings were inspired by artist, Chase Gentry.
Fractured Drawings
Using Value & Color
Students created observational drawing using an object or thing from a variety of perspectives.
Popcorn Value Drawing
Students used observational skills to draw real popcorn using VALUE and SHADING. In addition, students were able to enjoy eating the popcorn too!
Identity Portraits
Drawing students created portraits using a variety of drawing such as imagery, symbols and text.
Realistic "Personal Object" Drawings
Textural Ink Drawings
Colorful Candy Confections
Oil Pastel Portraits
Students created portraits using oil pastels in the Fauvist art style. Fauvism is a style of art with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color. Students explored the properties of oil pastels to create vivid expressive portraits.
Mixed Media Drawing
Students created drawings using different media and techniques learned throughout the semester. The drawings represent the student's strengths, personal creativity, ingenuity and critical thinking.
