Penguins, and winter sports figures, student drawings, adult and kids' art classes, Jan. 2016
Adult class exercises:
Color in, using black crayon, arrangements of circle and teardrop/leaf shapes into 4 boxes on your sheet. (Color as you go rather than coloring into an outline.)
Can you see any figures in these arrangements?
Now try a set with winter sports figures in mind. At least one of these should have two figures in it.
Draw 2 large boxes on sheet #3 - (draw these with sheet held vertically so that each is a landscape format.)
Color in arrangements of black teardrop like shapes - abstractions or reminiscent of penguins. (Color as you go rather than coloring into an outline.)
Final drawing - work from a reference photo of penguins, as you wish. But hopefully you will apply some of the exercises!
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Kids' class experiments
Cut a sheet in quarters
Color one quarter completely in black crayon.
Cut out a circle, an egg shape, some teardrop/leaf shapes.
Arrange these on a blank quarter sheet to look somewhat like a penguin. Tip in place, (glue in strategic spots rather than gluing completely down). We use glue sticks.
Now that you know this is to be penguins, color up another quarter sheet and cut out another set of black shapes. This time also cut an egg shape out of the large black egg shape to be the white belly.
Arrange and tip in on remaining white quarter sheet.
Make these two panels as one folder by binding together on the back, using some scraps of your black paper and dabs of glue - like hinges.
If you somehow wound up with a vertical panel and a horizontal panel, make up another panel in one or the other format. Hinge together the two that are the same format.
Final drawing - draw a penguin scene as you wish.
The kids' class did this without ever seeing either a penguin reference photo or example. I demonstrated for them very roughly what we were to do. The work was all an experiment.
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