Arctic animals - kids art class display, 1/28/20

Lynx, arctic hare, arctic fox, arctic unicorn pony, snowy owl, mouse, polar bear, Midnight sun, ....we did not get to the reindeer.
Work by both children and adults. So nice that everyone draws together.

St. George Grange, Wiley’s corner. Adult art class drawing display, 9/23/19

Once you notice that a simple building almost appears as if it is a face,  faces start staring out at you from so many buildings you see. Hard not to see them. I see this building as a kind of jack-o lantern face. That porch is the jagged toothed grin.

Students worked from color photos of the building. We practiced isolating and trying to capture the various dark shapes of the roofs. One can imagine them as little origami creatures with wide open triangular mouthes. 

Class  also worked from copies of the photo converted to an outline image with superimposed grid.

Barnyard farm animals - Children’s ’ drawing class, 9/17/19

We drew every animal we could think of. You may even find a girdog here, (combo giraffe dog). Chickens, roosters, ducks, pigs, goats, sheep, cows, horses, dogs, cats. Phew - lots to take care of. No geese at least.
Kids and adults drawing display from 9/17/19 class.

Finn-Am church, St. George Peninsula, adult art class display, 9/16/19

Exercises before the final drawings, (descriptions are probably out of order):
Practice in observing and looking at things differently than we are used to. It does not matter if you do it right or wrong. It just matters that you try. We need new experiences for our sense of well being. We need the challenges.
First try drawing just the dark shapes - without using outlines. Color into imaginary outlines.

Continuous line drawing of the reference image. Drawing tool stays in contact with the paper at all times. Draw backwards if you need to get back to a spot.

Ex. Draw just the sky area. Make boundary edges but not outlines. Again, you are coloring in this shape to imaginary outlines. Do the green area too.

Do a coloring in with one dark color, but make some of the shaded areas using a different set of marks - like stripes.

Final drawing as you wish. Use the reference images. Class had photos and a digitally prepared outline over a graph.

Cardinals in the lilacs, adult drawing class art display and exercises, 6/10/19

Cardinals in the lilacs, adult drawing class art display and exercises, 6/10/19

We started with a series of conceptual schematic structural drawings of lilac forms. This meant working with cone shapes in a few views. After we had done simple straight up cones we did some curving cones. These appeared almost as leaf shapes. And they would be good as a way to re-interpret leaves. After doing doing the cones, we tried them using scribbly  strokes to resemble something like the florets moving around the cone shape.

The cardinal practices was a series of four: first the main shapes like eggs or ovals in various positions. We did a scribbly or Wiro/slinky bird form. We did a continuous line drawing, and then just the black line outline drawing like a coloring page.

And finally students worked on making a picture as they wished. They had reference images of cardinals and lilacs to use.