Home School Art Lesson, Drawing A Focused Highlight

Spectrum Home School Community 5/9/13

Effecting a highlighted area in a drawing.

In class pictures were distributed for the students to find inspiration off of.  These pictures were from old calenders; most were of lighthouses or structures that had a major area of white or negative space.

Using pencil the students drew the lighthouses and surrounding seascape. Since the light house is white little is needed to do except a gradual shading.

The white lighthouse is lost in the sky since most students want to leave the sky blank but by using a dirty blending stub the sky is stained so that the sky was a value darker than the lighthouse. Some have problems keeping the sky smooth and not showing the marks of the blending stub. It requires patience and several minutes of rubbing. A tissue may be used to smooth out the blending stub marks. It may need to have the charcoal or pencil rubbed on and removed a few times to get the desired effect.

Charcoal drawing of Light house with sky a value darker.

The example above is not the best I admit, but it shows the sky is a value slightly darker than the white lighthouse. The effect is to make the lighthouse brighter than the rest of the drawing. This moves the foreground  forward and gives the effect of distance.

Another example may be seen at the link below of a boy in a white shirt. The shirt looks white because the background is toned down as described above.
http://artistadron.blogspot.com/2013/05/quick-sketch-while-at-cafe.html

The link below shows another example of a creamer with a dogwood blossom. Here the dogwood blossom is bright because the table was stained to a slightly darker value as described above.
http://artistadron.blogspot.com/2013/05/charcoal-sketch-of-creamer-and-dogwood.html

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Home School Art Drawing the Human Figure.

Spectrum Home School lesson for May 2

Art 2

We will warm up with a sketch of Woody our wooden model. It will be posed in a common pose and students will be given a six minutes to draw it. (See the finished example of this at the link to my other blog: artistadron.blogspot.com.) This will help free up the young artist and teach them editing and decision making in drawing.

Our main project are inspired by pictures cut out from the local sports section of the newspaper. These often have dramatic postures and actions. The class will begin with a light pencil rendering and go over it in pen.

Below is an illustration of a sketch in marker of an athlete clipped from a paper. It was done during class as an example showing the process of the drawing.

Starting with pencil I drew an articulated stick figure for the frame and then adding the thickness of the figure. This part of the drawing took less than three minutes. Switching to pen and ink I rendered the figure sometimes tracing the pencil lines, and sometimes only using them as a reference. A dark area was in the photo so it was included in the picture to give reference and to help move the runner forward.

Sketch in marker of an athlete running.

The project was challenging to some. Since the photos were from the newspaper they were given to the students who wanted to finish the project during the week at home.

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Home school Art Lesson, Shading and Values with Pen and Ink

Spectrum Home School Art 2

Values are the degree of dark or light in an area in a picture. We ca control value by controlling the amount of ink in relation to the white paper showing.

This can be done with any technique, as well as any pen type.

Students will create an abbreviated value chart going only to five. The chart will have 5 squares each with a darker value. The first example shows standard crosshatching technique, the second row has dots and the third is scribbling.

Illustration for Art Lesson on Values in Pen And Ink

After the students make a chart similar to the one above they practice on a project of their own choosing as long as the work demonstrates multiple values.

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Homeschool Art Lesson, Pen And Ink.Basic Lines

Art 2 Pen And Ink. 

Our lesson is a practice of different lines. Contour lines, Parallel lines, Crosshatching, Dots. Stylized line, and Direct line.

• CONTOUR lines follow the contour or the round shape of an object. The bend of the line gives the look of roundness. 
• PARALLEL lines are parallel to each other. They may vary in thickness and in closeness to give the effect of roundness. 
• CROSSHATCHING are parallel lines that cross over each other in a fine grid giving the effect of darkness.
• STYLIZED line is a line that may be fluid in bending around an object and it may be of various thicknesses. 
• DIRECT line is a line that is clean and even without variation of thickness, it gives the effect of a drawing that looks like a mechanical illustration.  

Students should practice each technique.

A project is attempted. Being a first project students may pick the technique they want to attempt.

Some Examples of Lines for Pen Drawings

An example of pen drawing may be found at the link: Gourds.

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Homeschooling Hardest Drawing Lesson

Spectrum Home School Drawing Lesson for 3/14

Many of the younger students and even the older ones can draw a nice little picture in a few minutes. We even have an exercise called "The Quick Sketch Challenge,"where they are given an object and told to draw it in three or five minutes, it is to free up their thinking and encourage them to master the quick composition that is necessary to many larger projects. However, when the students make a habit of drawing quickly and consider the project done too early many opportunities are missed. When a student works on a drawing for an hour they discover more details, subtle shadows inside shadows, depth, and in come cases entire areas of technique such as texture and value.

 The Art 1 class today had a very hard lesson. Instead of the normal two or three projects they were instructed to only draw one picture for the entire hour. To increase motivation students were allowed to chose the project from the folder of photos and clippings. During the hour the instructor circulated and made suggestions and positive comments.

The results were stunning!

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Multi-Layered Print Making 2 Spectrum Home-school Community 3/14/12

Home School Art Printmaking continued.

Multiple layered prints. 

Some of our students continued on the multi-colored print project that was begun the week before.

Those that finished began a multiple-layered project to get experience with the translucence quality of the inks involved. To explore the effect students created an abstract or cubist print.

First, a general design was drawn on the block, we use cardboard. The first layer of abstract shapes was attached to the block using double stick tape.  The ink was applied and a print made. We traced around the abstract shapes with pencil on the block to keep as a reference for the second and later colors and then removed the shapes.

Next, a new set of shapes were attached to the block, the first having been removed. The second shapes have some areas of overlap with the first. (this is where the traced shapes help since we are laying on the same block). The second color applied and the second print made on the same paper. Note: be careful not to turn the paper upside down The shapes were outlined and removed as before.

Next, the process is repeated so each color has areas that overlap others and the combination make new hues and colors.

Last a little accent was added with a black outline of similar shapes.

The example has squares and rectangles but other shapes and random shapes can be done also.

Print making Lesson with Multiple Layers. 

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Art 2 Print Making with Multiple Colors.

For the week of Feb 28 and March 7th and March 14 we will be working on a print project that will require the use of multiple colors and careful registration.

The first week has been design and transferring the design onto our block or in our case foam. The next week we proceeded to cut out the foam and attach to the acrylic using double stick tape. Using acrylic lets us "see" through the block to match us our prints so each color matches. A different block was made for each color.

The third week will be production and final print making of the projects.

The example below is from a similar class with younger students.

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