These rainy spring days have really got me daydreaming of summer. This bright citrus project seemed appropriate, very bright and sunny. I brought an assortment of sliced citrus fruits to class and let each student choose one. Students drew from observation in pencil, then outlined in black crayon. I think students were surprised at the […]
We used playing cards as the inspiration for this project. We looked at images of playing card art, both historical and recent. Each student chose a face card to work from. The advanced students gridded their playing cards and enlarged them, copying each square of the grid onto larger paper. The younger groups used the […]
For the past few weeks, several of my classes have been working on a project based on the illustrations in the book, This Jazz Man. The illustrations depict famous jazz musicians using mixed media collage. Collage looks deceptively easy. It actually requires a lot of planning ahead and thinking of shapes in a different way. […]
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