As a way of reviewing shading and accurately creating rounded forms, we did these glass marble drawings.  The trick is that with glass objects, highlights and shadows are a little more complicated so students had to carefully study and recreate highlights, reflected light and cast shadows. 

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who incorporated DOTS and NETS into every painting, sculpture and installation she created. Flowers, pumpkins and mushrooms were her favorite subjects.  She passed away recently and we paid tribute to her in these floral paintings inspired by her.

After studying and practicing various types of contour line drawings, students did modified contour line drawings of still lifes from photographs.  The goal was to draw these with mostly connected lines, really focusing on drawing visually.  We added "spotlights" of bright color to bright up our line drawings.

Neurographic art is a relatively new concept--the process embraces allowing your brain to relax and subconciously create free-form, non-objective designs. Students chose a conceptual idea to prompt their line and color choices and let the lines flow! Aren't these just gorgeous?

Students had to use the letters of their name and invent an alliterative, crazy, creative flavor for each one!  Don't these just look DELICIOUS???

We drew polaroid cameras, then attached a string of "photos" drawn to represent different important things in our lives.