For the last couple of weeks, we have been working on drawing and painting tropical fish. The older students worked in pencil and Sharpie, drawing from detailed illustrations of fish. The younger group used black oil pastel and drew from simple, stylized illustrations of fish. Both groups used liquid watercolor for the water, adding salt […]
William H Johnson was African American artist from South Carolina who lived from 1910-1970. After graduating from the National Academy of Design in New York, he traveled to Paris to paint for several years. His work gradually transitioned from expressionism to primitivism. Our lesson focused on his later works which depicted his rural southern […]
For the last couple of weeks, we have been working on painting flamingos. We broke the flamingo shape down to a circle and an oval and then drew the basic outline. This project was really about painting and mixing colors. We used tempera paint, and for most of the colors, we mixed right on the […]
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