Kindergarten: Attached is a guided drawing to create your own monsters. It works best to start with a pencil and then you can use anything to color your monsters in! You can use as many or as little number of eyes as you wish. You can also use different types of arms, body shapes, teeth, and mouth shapes. I'd love to see how they turn out!

1st grade: In January, we created a winter landscape inspired by Grandma Moses. Attached are some more examples of her work and two videos about her story. https://youtu.be/4dTLiG_slQQ and https://youtu.be/rf3Abv5xxKA. Now that we are at the beginning of spring, you can use any materials you wish to create a spring landscape! like our last painting it's best to start with a horizontal line to show where the sky touches the ground. Then you can draw trees, flowers, hills, roads, wind turbines, anything you wish to create a landscape inspired by Grandma Moses.

2nd grade: Attached is a guided drawing of an oak tree that we have practiced in the past. Using any materials you want, you can create your tree starting with the roots and trunk. Split the trunk into two branches by drawing a "V" in the middle of the top opening. From there, I would like to see you create your "Dream Treehouse". Use whatever materials you want to use. If you want to add a trampoline to your house, add a trampoline! Your branches can go behind or in front of you tree house. Email your drawings! I'd love to see them.

3rd grade: Long before people used technology to take "selfies", artists created self-portraits to create interesting images of themselves. Here is a video about the history of the "selfie" https://youtu.be/ontgK-_zBfQ. Look at the self portrait idea sheet attached to this page. You can use any of the different facial features from this sheet or create you own to draw your face. You can also add things like glasses, freckles, ponytails, or hats to make the image look more like you. For the last step you can either keep self-portrait realistic, use a ruler to break the drawing into many different shapes (like last week's guitar), or use a monochromatic color scheme (one color).

4th grade: A few weeks ago we practiced drawing each other only using only one line without picking up you pencil. This week you can create your own still life by placing objects around the house in front of you at a desk or table. The challenge is to draw all of these objects without picking up your pencil. You can always backtrack your line to get to where you need. Remember also that the goal is to access the right side of the brain and draw what you really see. Not what you think you see. Here is a video that demonstrates the process. https://youtu.be/COTs2FB_SWo

5th grade: In January, we practiced drawing our hands only using one line. The goal was to keep the pencil on the paper the entire time. Here is a video of the process https://youtu.be/COTs2FB_SWo. This week you can use only one line to create a scene or detailed drawing of anything wish. The only catch is your pencil can not leave the paper. I attached a few other examples of a one line drawing. Send a picture of your drawings I would love to see them!

6th grade: We have had plenty of practice the last few weeks using hatching techniques. This week you can choose your favorite cartoon/ comic hero or villain to draw. If you chose to draw a hero like batman, than you can also design your own villain against that hero. If you chose a villain like Darth Vader, you can also create your own hero with a lightsaber (if you want) against that villain. After you have drawn your hero and villain, you can use a small amount of cross hatching just to suggest a little bit of shadow I attached a hatching example from the book Where the Wild Things Are.