Native American patchwork inventions, sun faces, Thanksgiving feasts, turkey drawings - art by students in adult and kids’ drawing classes, 11/25-26/19

Adult art classes started by drawing a series of 4 gridded rectangles on a single sheet. Place in horizontal layout. These rectangles were of varying ‘cell’ numbers. You may find these cell amounts in some of the examples.

‘Box’ A using a dark crayon, create a design or pattern across that grid. Create by coloring in various cells.

‘Box’ B pick two random crayons/colors and create another pattern/design.

‘Box’ C pick a third random color and do as above.

‘Box’ D choose 4 colors as you wish and make a design/pattern.

Final drawing: Reduce paper sheet down to the biggest square possible. Remove excess by cutting or very careful tearing. Fold square into 4 squares by 4 squares. Fold diagonals if you wish. Color squares to create something like a patchwork square.

Put all the these explorations up on the wall arranging to create one large image.

Woodland animals and turkeys, student drawings, adult art class, 11/18/19

We warmed up with a set of drawing exercises working from reference photos.
1) draw a critter in white by just coloring in the background.
2) draw a blind contour drawing of a critter - keep your eye on the reference image, tool on the paper, and don't look at the paper. Go slowly and quietly. It is not supposed to look like anything!
3) draw a continuous line of the reference image, keep tool on the drawing
4) draw the forms of a reference image. Egg shapes? But imagine their 3D form how it takes up space.
Turkey - half a sheet drawing script like scribbling. Each line should be connected script forms repeating a mark like a letter. Hmm - would this work as the actual letters of the name?
The other half of the page is to translate the elements of a turkey image into the scribbles of script/calligraphy.

Friday after, (Tday), digital drawings, 'sig' and live/touch, 11/23/18

Little Phone screen does not register stylus strokes moving from out to in, but at least registers from in to out. I'm not used to writing or drawing that way. I expect to be able to make marks whichever way I move my tool/hand....all this stuff starts out so promising but then so quickly loses its capabilities. All flash in the pan and smoke n mirrors?!

Turkeys and woodland animals, demo drawings and student art display, adult drawing class, 11/19/18

Class started with a calligraphy flourish style turkey from my demo drawing. Then students created woodland scenes working from reference photos.

Turkey drawings, black crayon coloring page and, 11/19/18

A turkey coloring page crayon drawing and some little phone drawings, 11/19/18