Monthly Archives: November 2012

8th graders and 7th graders have completed a lesson simultaneously.  8th grade worked long and hard on a classic lesson: the still life drawing.  They stared at over 25 objects for many classes, looking forst at contour and edges, then … Continue reading →

Fifth graders have just finished an in depth unit on landscape art with a strong focus on fore, middle and backgrounds, and the use of overlapping to create the “illusion of depth”.  They began the year with clay and have … Continue reading →

Just an image worth seeing, a middle school student mid-painting.  Now that’s what I call dedication.

Seventh grade students spent some time getting to know a vast menagerie as they worked on animal portraits in graphite.  They looked at photos and worked hard to carefully observe the values in the images. They then used different drawing … Continue reading →