Greens explorations lesson, adult art class, 3/9/20

Art class today in lead up to St. Pat's Day, we did greens explorations. First in quickie charts, and then in a final drawing. 

(I always do greens explorations for St. Pat's.) This idea came from a Paul Klee piece that came thru my FB, and which I had saved. 

We made the quickie charts by overlaying variations of yellow, greens, blues, and even purples. Some charts simply reversed the application of color to see differences depending on which layer a color went down first. 

For the final drawing I directed students to draw 7 randomly placed short straight lines on their sheet. I demonstrated and they all started to copy. Took me a moment to realize they were copying, ( and cover my sheet). Then they were to draw waving lines. I was not specific over whether the lines could intersect or not. 

Then students were to color as they wished using the yellows, greens, blues and purples they'd used in the color charts. They seemed to really enjoy that.

I tried to show them the Klee piece but it was nowhere to be found on my phone. Once home, I did find it -  in a message. Phew! But it was also in my phone storage  - from a year ago. I'd seen it during a random browsing of my pics, and realized how perfect such an idea  would be for our greens explorations project. Such a lovely image. The project was fun too. 

Paul Klee
White Blossom in the Garden, 1920

Lupine coastal landscapes, adult art class, 7/8/19

We started with a series of exercises:
Draw clumps of stalks of lupine in a variety of
scribbles or textures. Each clump should be different than the
previous. Fill the sheet.
Rough in two horizontal panes/frames/rectangles on a vertical sheet.
First box create some shapes like areas in a landscape.
Second box make the same but fill it in with the textures practiced earlier, and
any other coloring desired.
Final drawing make up a scene on a full sheet. Use
reference photos if you want.