I would like you to make a family and I encourage you to base it on your own family, adding hair and eye color and glasses and beards to represent the different people in your family. You can change the clothing to suit you but try to use some elements of this traditional style.

If you are not inspired to do your own family you can do a family of characters from a book a movie or game you know. Imagine that all the characters went incognito as Russian Matryoshkas.

Please continue watching my drawing tutorial in the first video and create your Matryoshka dolls on the paper provided. You may also want a sheet of scrap paper to try things out on first. I suggest drawing lightly in pencil first then adding outlines and color.

Here are a variety of different characters depicted on Russian Nesting Dolls. This might give you some ideas for different outfits.

You can use the pictures and video's below to give you further inspiration.

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Today we will be looking at the Jam art of Danny Steinman. He is an artist and musician whose art is very music inspired. He uses the logo and words from bands and their music to create artwork that is so vibrant it is almost electric. Using Danny Steinman as the inspiration we will be working on creating a work of art that combines an inspirational word or words with a background that helps to visually communicate the meaning and feeling of our word.

Take a look at some of this work by Danny Steinan. What do you notice about this work. (Spend 5-10 min. noticing and discussing this work). What is unique about his style. How would you describe his compositions? Does this artwork appeal to you? Respectfully discuss what you are drawn to about the work, how it makes you feel, or what you would change about it if it were your work.

Take a look at my video below. Choose your own inspirational word or words for this project. Use the list below as inspiration. Fold a sheet of blank white paper the long way as I have in my video and practice writing your word in block letters in multiple different styles. Try a few times to see what you like best. If you have a short word and want to make it very big you do not have to divide the paper in half first. Try to create your letters as large and spacious (inside) as possible and remember it should be large and almost as long or wide as a piece of copy paper. The letters can be overlapping or spaced so they are not touching. When you finish a number of drafts and choose your favorite you can make a final copy. They final copy should be large, clear and outlined in black. You should erase your pencil lines so the copy is clean. If you finish a final copy of one word, or short phrase, move on to a second word.

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