Lobster Boats passing Marshall Point light on their way home. Student display, adult art class, 8/26/19

We started with several exercises working from my reference photos. A) Continuous line drawings to practice flowing line. B) A silhouette or stencil style drawing of a lobsterboat. C) draw a scene using any of the reference materials.

http://catinkacards.tripod.com/pdf/ferryMarshallPtTrace.pdf

http://catinkacards.tripod.com/pdf/marshallPtBoatsRefs.pdf

Sailboat passing Rockland Breakwater lighthouse - student display, adult art class, 8/19/19

Students did some torn paper and negative space exercises before tackling the reference model. This is a little painting I did years ago. Sketching sailboats racing can only be done quickly in real time. I painted in my little drawing the next day.

Back then I had no camera that could see so far out. I could only see through binoculars. My phone camera still can't see that far out. One must draw moving objects quickly and make up the rest.

Rockland Breakwater lighthouse - student display adult art class, 8/12/19

We started exercises with drawing the image in continuous line. Keep your drawing tool in constant contact with the paper. Backtrack if you must.

Next we drew the image stencil style using a dark crayon. Color in to an imaginary outline. Separate the areas and shapes by keeping white channels.

Final drawings we made, again from my ancient instamatic photo of the lighthouse taken on a ferry ride to North Haven quite a few years ago.

Marshall Point Light - student art display, adult art class, 8/5/19

We started with practices in drawing some of the components that make up this lighthouse scene.

A top hat or pork pie hat and a ski cap type shapes form the lantern part of the tower.

Long triangles - (obtuse I think), get progressively longer because of perspective.

We drew them by coloring in their imaginary outlines.

After practicing, class drew from my follow along demo. They also had  reference art to work from too - the newspaper clip of my painting.

Lighthouses - Rockland Breakwater and Owls Head Light, student drawings by kids and adults, children’s art class, 8/6/19

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/