Classic Maine scene, with mermaids and unicorns! Art display, kids and adults, children’s drawing classes, 7/30/19

We went off on a tangent with the unicorn and mermaids, but the kids mentioned them as some of their guesses for the day's topic.

See the books and work of artist/illustrator/author Ashley Bryant for delightful brilliant colorful art. You can see something about Ashley Bryant here:  https://high.org/exhibition/ashley-bryan/

Beach roses landscape inventions, adult art class 7/22/19

We started with
A) calligraphic exercises - invent rows of marks. Do some in a connected manner
B) in two horizontal panels draw some shapes to approximate a 'Maine' coastal landscape. (Sea, horizon, land masses, islands, beach, clumps/bushes of beach roses.) Use one of your marks as the flowers in those foreground clumps. Color the green background of the shrubbery. Color the other landscape elements.
Try to keep a level horizon line. We don't need more vertigo than we already have, and we are not on a boat here. We are on land!

Final drawings - use one of your exercises or work from a reference photo. Draw on a full sheet.