SPECTRUM HOMESCHOOL COMMUNITY Lesson Plans March 31, 2011

SPECTRUM HOMESCHOOL COMMUNITY

Art Lesson Plans March 31, 2011

PRE CLASS: Did any one draw during this last week? (Such as skill builders, long term, other).  What can they show the class?  Positive constructive peer reactions are encouraged.

WARM UPS: 1. Texture practice, shading practice with side of pencil making patterns in rough bars like bark on a tree. 2. Short wavy lines like scales or underside of tree leaves. 3. Diamonds. 4. Drawing a face in scribble. First drawing with a hard light pencil and then switching to a darker pencil for the finish.

QUICK DRAW CHALLENGE:  Woody, our model of the human figure.   Students draw him in 5 minutes time.

CLASS PROJECTS: 1. Our primary project will be sketching a landscape with a farm scene and road. Giving attention to composition, fore, middle, and back ground and points of interest. 2. Drawing a radio boom box.

TAKE HOME SKILLBUILDERS: Our take home skill builders this week are a portrait of a Raccoon, Trees in silhouette, and a fantasy sea serpent.  I was working on these until 1 am and I hope the kids enjoy drawing them. I will post these on the blog with additional helpful notes.

LONG TERM PROJECT: Continue to read the Book of Acts and illustrate each chapter. Keep these illustrations in a folder to mount later on. One illustration must be a person.

OUR INSPIRATION FOR TODAY: “I will lift up my eyes to the hills- where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of the heavens and the earth.” Psalm 121:1, 2. NIV. Artist and many creative types look within for a lot of inspiration. Many people who are disciplined hard workers hyper focus on their task. We must remember to look not down at our work or inside for guidance but we must “Lift up our eyes” and look up to the Lord. If he made heaven and earth is there any thing you can bring to him that is too big for him to fix?

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Drawing Trees in Silouette a Project For The Young Artist.

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How To Draw A Sea Serpent for a Young Artist

This is a fun lesson on how to draw a sea serpent.  It is very easy and uses only basic drawing skills but it can turn into a real cool picture!

I like to first determine where the horizon is in any picture that is outdoors. If you don't you make a big mistake and the picture comes out looking odd. Put the horizon anywhere except the middle of the page it just looks boring. Start your drawing with a hard light pencil so you can erase at the end. Draw a line to keep the sea serpent straight in the water. Make a basic outline of the sea serpent with some circles. The body is just two circles that look like donuts. Keep the circles the same thickness on the body. Make evenly spaced dots to be able to draw the dorsal fins along the back evenly; then draw the dorsal fins by connecting the dots into triangles that sort of curve back. The head looks like a snake with gills. Lightly draw two circles one bigger than the other touching. The smaller circle makes the nose. Three dots in a row will line up the gill/ear things, the eyes, and the breathing holes.the eyebrow is a line. The breathing hole is a circle with a line. The ear gill things are four lines that go out and away from the back dot and sweep like a Japanese fan. The flipper is an option it is some sweeping lines that form a long triangle. Add details. Draw the scales carefully and plan to take a lot of time. The tale could be any way but I drew a whale fluke for the tale, it was just some triangles. Use a hard light pencil to draw the sun almost all set since most people claim to see sea serpents at sunset. Use light and dark pencils to make the volcano. The volcano is just some jagged lines shaped into a cone. Keep the darker thicker jagged lines away from the sun since that is the shady side. The smoke of the volcano is darker on the bottom, use back and forth sweeping letter "Us" to give it a dark billow. Put in a few rippling waves.

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Art Lesson Plans March 24, 2011

SPECTRUM HOMESCHOOL COMMUNITY

Art Lesson Plans March 24, 2011

WARM UPS: 1. Texture practice, shading practice with side of pencil making patterns like “Zs” “Ws”, “Ns”, and “Ms”  2. Choppy short lines. 3. Boxes. 4. Circles and ovals..

QUICK DRAW CHALLENGE:  A short stack of old books at different angles.  students choose one to draw in 5 minutes time.

CLASS PROJECTS: Last week we sketched outdoors but it is raining so we will have some choices 1. Sketch animals from some library books. 2. Sketch dancers from ballet posters. Unless it is nice outside we may sketch scenes at the back of the church.

TAKE HOME SKILLBUILDERS: These skill builders are a little more challenging: An ancient roman tower, a mile marker covered in ivy, an old mission bell in a wall. 

LONG TERM PROJECT: Continue to read the Book of Acts and illustrate each chapter. Keep these illustrations in a folder to mount later on. One illustration must be a person.

OUR INSPIRATION FOR TODAY: “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth” Proverbs 10:4, NIV.

 It may seem pretty obvious but today we have a culture of laziness and spending time in amusements and entertainment.  I always say “Save the fun stuff for last.” Do the hard work first not just to get it over with but so you are giving your best energy and freshness to the task. To be diligent is to not give up, or quit. Our God is on our side and he wants to bless us he has given us this life principle to bless us with. If you are struggling with laziness pray for the holy spirit to give you the power of victory. I know you will have success.

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How to Draw the Old Roman Tower

The old roman tower looks hard to draw but with a few tricks it can really be an impressive project. I personally think this one would be well done in fine tip marker.

The Old Roman Tower is essentially a large cylinder, so start by drawing the cylinder of the tower. Perspective makes the top arch down at the outside on the top and arch up at the outside at the bottom. Draw lightly at first with a hard pencil. Add the horizon as a slopping mountainside and some rectangles for the houses of the old village. We will leave the village and mountain undeveloped on purpose to give attention to the tower. Use a light touch and quickly sketch in the structures on both sides of the bottom of the tower, one side has part of some arches and the other had some building or entry. Keep in mind which side the light is coming from. Use the light pencil and a light touch draw a reference grid that you will use to place the texture of the bricks. The lines of this grid will arch up at the top and arch down at the bottom and be straight across in the middle I suggest you work top and bottom at the same time. Draw in the bricks as just dark lines on the grid, most of these dark lines will go horizontally and a few vertically. Don't forget the windows. Pick out some random places to sketch rectangles for individual bricks. Do the same for the structures on both sides at the base of the tower. Use shading to make the effect of roundness. The shadow will get darker toward the edge away from the light. Erase any reference marks that remain. Add a few details such as some pillars in the back ground, clumps of grass, and fallen stones.

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How to Draw a Mile Marker With Ivy Leaves

How to Draw A Mile Marker with Leaves looks hard but by using a few texture techniques it is easier than it looks. I was inspired by an old concrete mile marker on rt 108.  Start with a light rough draft using a 2b or hard pencil. Draw the rectangle top of the mile marker and just a few lines going down. I like to draw it tilted I think it gives the project a little interest. The horizon is just the tree line in the background- draw it lightly early on in the project. A few vertical lines and circles to get the trees in place. The leaves of the ivy are "heart shaped." after you have the area filled up with the heart shaped leaves work the area over with a heaver pencil to make shadows and other leaves underneath. The trunk of the trees are textured with short choppy lines. Make the lines heavy on the side of the tree that has the shadow. The leaves on the trees are rounded you can just scribble lots of tiny loops using a dark pencil for the underside of the tree leaves, then some tiny arches on top in ligh pencil. The grass creates distance by setting the foreground apart form the middle it is drawn with shot up and down bunches. Give the grass variety in thickness and height. Shade in the dark side of the monument and work it smooth whith a blending stick, add some pock marks and spots of weathering. The area on the ground around the monument is dried leaves, they are drawn with lots of little "Zs," "Ws," "Ns" etc. some over others some in light and some in dark pencil. Keep the distant trees soft to give the effect of distance. Don't do more than to outline them. A few squiggly lines make twigs sticking up finishes the picture.


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How To Draw a Mission Bell

How To Draw a Mission Bell

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SPECTRUM HOMESCHOOL Art Lesson Plans March 17, 2011

SPECTRUM HOMESCHOOL COMMUNITY

Art Lesson Plans March 17, 2011

WARM UPS:

1. Shading practice with side of pencil making patterns like leaves.

2. Rolling swirls like ocean waves. 3. Arches like rainbows. 4. Squares in negative space, we don’t draw the square but shading all the surrounding areas.

QUICK DRAW CHALLENGE: 

Items were brought in from the kitchen; students choose one to draw in 5 minutes time.

CLASS PROJECTS:

A demonstration on drawing an idem with a repeated pattern.

We have had an intense few weeks with portrait, so to return to fun of drawing we sketched outside and drew scenes of the hill at the back of the church.

TAKE HOME SKILLBUILDERS:

A four leafed clover, (It is St. Patrick’s Day after all). How to sketch Lucy the Lady Bug. How to sketch a Roy the Space Ranger with focus on the lower half of the face. 

LONG TERM PROJECT:

Continue to read the Book of Acts and illustrate each chapter. Keep these illustrations in a folder to mount later on. One illustration must be a person.

OUR INSPIRATION FOR TODAY: "In his heart a man plans his course but the Lord determines his steps." Proverbs 16:9, NIV.

     We put together our plans with greatest care. Our plans are sometimes vague and sometimes clear cut. A sailor may use the stars or a compass to set his course. We are often our own course. Our course is the directions we are going the big picture the agenda the goal and destination. The Lord is the ruler of the universe he rules all things and we are subject to his authority. We may leave him out of our plans but he will be in them.
     It is a comfort that our God is good and compassionate and in his love he desires the best for us.  We must not forget to include God in our plans. Whatever our plans are to leave God out is to invite him in unwittingly, perhaps even changing our course against our will. If we put God in our plans we may still find our destination changes but we will not be going against our will.

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How to Draw a Lady Bug for a Young Artist,

HOW TO DRAW A LADY BUG

Here is a Skill Builder to help young artist to draw their favorite bug. It is a good drawing to use to decorate anything in springtime.

The lady bug is oval or egg shaped. You can practice drawing the egg shape or use my little formula. Start with a rectangle, this is just to help control proportions and give some boundaries. At one end draw a circle that touches the outside narrow edge of the triangle and the two long sides. Draw lightly you will be erasing some of this. Starting at the center of the shorter line opposite the circle draw a half arch up to the top of the circle and then draw another half arch to the bottom of the circle. This should give you a nice egg like shape. You can erase the rectangle lines now. (Don't erase the circle just yet, you will find it helpful to place the spots). Inside the egg shape draw a long letter "T" on its side.  Round in the points where the "T" touches the outside of the egg shape. Round off the head. The dots on the lady bug are not perfectly round but do have a pattern that is the same on all lady bugs. Using the circle guide drawn before draw two dots one on each outside edge farthest out, then two more one on each shoulder, now erase any extra part of the circle. Draw two large spots by the point where the back legs will be, and a large one on the neck that is underneath the cross of the "T". Don't forget to draw legs! The lady bug has 6 but I only draw 4, so they don't get too cluttered. The cheeks have white spots, and the head has two antenna.

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How to Draw a Space Ranger. (Focus on lower face) 3/17

SKILL BUILDER: DRAWING A FACE

Here is a printable skill builder drawing exercise that gives attention to the lower half of the face.

BEGINNINGS
Even though we are covering up the top half of the portrait with space helmet and goggles we still want to start by drawing the outline of the entire head this helps us to keep our proportions correct.

Since attention is on the lower half it is very important to use the line down the middle of the face to keep balance and have everything lined up.
The eyes are about half way from top to chin, you still want to make some marks to remember where they are.
The nose is half way down from there.
The mouth is about half way down from the nose. The nose starts like a series of three circles but you want to shade them into angles. The nostrils are shadows, don't draw them dark like caves in the face, they are angled and slightly pointed inward.
The mouth is like a very flat letter "M" with a small letter "V" above it and a large lower case"n"below it. Try to shadow the mouth instead of drawing it with the pencil tip.
The jaw is square and the jaw line is straight. This gives him a young manly look.

Draw him loosely and lightly at first. Take rest stops: put your pencil down and look away for a minute, when you come back double check your work and make corrections.

SAVE THE FUN STUFF FOR LAST!

All those little things that make him cool- add them after you have built up a good foundation of a great drawing.

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Spectrum Art Class March 10th

Adron’s Spectrum home school art lessons March 10, 2011

WARM UPS: Our warm ups are different today. 1. Circles randomly drawn, some over others, after 30 seconds change pencils to a darker finishing pencil and turn random circles into clouds. 2. Short choppy vertical lines in rows, the bottom rows are larger and the ones above become successfully smaller and lighter. This should create grass. 3. Scribble randomly to make triangles filling in the triangles with scribbles, overlapping the triangles. Choose and erase unwanted lines this should give the effect of mountains in the distance. 4. Using the side of the pencil and block out technique sketch random buildings.

SPEED SKETCH CHALLENGE: 5 minutes! Using the 4 warm ups create a scene with grass in the foreground mountains in the background and buildings in the middle ground. The sky will have clouds drawn in the circular fashion. The skill builder was followed with peer critique and discussion of varying methods to create interest in a composition.

CLASS PROJECTS: For advanced students mirrors were distributed for the kids to use as each drew a self portrait.

TAKE HOME SKILL BUILDERS: Skill builders were given to the class. I have observed some kids like fantasy so today we have a fantasy Dwarf Warrior. To continue our emphases this quarter on portrait we have 2 portrait studies that focus on eyes. First an old west bank robber with a bandanna over his face so attention is given to the eyes. Second the 3/4 view of the woman at the well from John 4. The veil hides the lower half of the face so attention is given to the eyes.

LONG TERM PROJECT: Continue to read the book of acts and illustrate each chapter with 2 drawings, one must be a person from the chapter.

OUR INSPIRATION: From the Old Testament: 2Chronicles 2:11.- 14 "Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon:…13.'Now I am sending you Huram Abi, a man of great skill, whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron stone and wood and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute and design given to him. He will work with your craftsman and whit those of my lord, David your father.'" You would think the Bible would give such attention and detail about the chief foreman or the master over the workers or the engineering or the architect. but the bible takes time to describe the artisan who made the beautiful and finely crafted things that filled the temple. Look what it ways about him he was trained and experienced and confident. He was multi talented. Let him be our example that craft and skill can lead to enduring service such as making the temple.
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Here is the skill builder of the Wild West Bandit "Black Bart"
This is an exercise to focus on drawing eyes. Really there is not much to Black Bart the Bank Robber, so he is easy to draw. Start with the egg shaped head, you want to do this even though much of it is covered by the hat and the bandanna so you will be true to the proportions. The eyes are about half way but if you mess this up don't worry you can change the bandanna or the hat to re-proportion it and hide any mistakes. The eyes are squinty but you still want to start by drawing the full circles of the iris and pupils so you can keep the proportions. The  eyebrows have a direction see the drawing the hair goes one way then the other. I am always telling my students  to draw faces with shadows and  not lines but Black Bart has a lot of worry lines around his eyes so go to town. Don't worry if the hat is not straight or even it is old and beaten up. If you have color pencils then I think his eyes should be blue and skin pale and his hair black.

Here is the skill builder of the Woman at The Well from John 4.

This is also an exercise on drawing eyes. She is turned 3/4 so start with a vertical meridian line bowed across her face to anchor  the  features. the eyes are a little lower than half. Her eyelashes are thin and fine they arch slightly. The eyes are flowing in shape, the eyelashes are long and flowing. The veil hides the lower half of the face you can use a blending tool or a very light touch to indicate nose mouth and chin, but keep it mysterious. You have to put in your own shading but keep it light. Color her skin a light milk chocolate, color her hair and her eyes dark brown.

Spectrum Homeschool Art Lesson Plans March 3, 2011

SPECTRUM HOMESCHOOL COMMUNITY

Art Lesson Plans March 3, 2011

WARM-UPS:

1. Shading practice with side of pencil making lighting bolts.

2. Rolling swirls with attention to keeping swirls even.

3. Hills to mountains; using horizontal lines to draw rows of hills with graduation to jagged lines above in rows to draw mountains.

4. Circles in negative space, we don’t draw the circle but shading all the surrounding areas.

QUICK DRAW CHALLENGE:

Several stuffed toy animals were brought in and the students are to draw one in 4 minutes using whatever technique they wish.

CLASS PROJECTS:

We will draw a face of a civil war re-enactor from a photo. (Because I forgot about African American history month, so I found a picture from a history book of a Black Civil War soldier.)   The technique being developed is the blocking in of large areas and using light areas against dark to develop a picture.

Our alternative class projects are drawing a calculator- I will bring several in. Additionally more stuffed animals will be available.   

TAKE HOME SKILLBUILDERS:

The Viking ship (the boys will like this one). This was on my blog last week but not everyone got to it so I have a few extra to hand out. Other skill builders include a Mute Swan and a Seahorse.  I spent several hours designing these skill builders I hope they are fun and helpful for the students.

OUR INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:

Our inspiration for today is from 2 Chronicles 1:10. “Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?” We know the story of how the angel of the Lord appeared to Solomon at night after he worshiped and offered him anything he wanted. Solomon asked for wisdom.  It was given to him. God delights to give wisdom. If we are having problems with an art project or any other thing we can ask God for wisdom and we can be confident he will give it to us.

 Skill-building exercise: how to draw a seahorse.

Free How to Draw a Seahorse Worksheet

Skill builder/confidence builder: How to draw a swan. Mute Swan.

Free how to draw a swan worksheet

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