Chair With Coat

HOW did you find today's still life more or less complicated to draw than the still lives over the past few weeks (white paper, sticks, fabric)? Be specific.

* Well

HOW did you use some of the skills we've developed over the past three weeks drawing more complicated still lives to draw the chair with coat today? What are these skills?

Fabric Drawings

Back to D.E.A.D.!!! It's Tuesday and its time to draw. We had to draw a tower thing of different fabrics and I guess I could have done better, I saw one piece of fabric that I really wanted to do and so I did and I loved the way it came out but the thing is that I spent too much time on it. I wish I could have gotten some more of the really big things but its always a learning process! So it was nice, trying to get the folds in their but I think it was different than the sticks, I kind of liked this better for some reason.


Here is my artwork!

Pile of sticks

D.E.A.D. was today, so we came into the classroom and what do I see?
A pile of sticks. At the first sight of it I knew it was going to be a challenge. I looked at it and then we came together and talked about how to start and how we would be drawing from general to specific. We have been working on that skill for quite some time now and it was time to see how I could do it. I know that at first I was thinking to myself; "what? how do I even start? and I dont like the saying 'it has to be ugly before it gets better' I dont like it although it is true...." So I started looking at the pile and then just scribbling some lines on the paper, left to right up and down side to side. I feel okay I guess, it was definitely something new and a challenge but it was a good challenge I learned a way to make the illusion of things overlapping and it is a good skill to have so Im glad we learned how to.



Here is my work!

The Changing Still Life

Today during art we had a unusual experience. My teacher had a still life set up and had one object on it, she then asked us to draw it with charcoal and after a while she would start adding things on to the still life, sometimes dramatically changing the drawing or maybe just having to erase some lines. At the beginning I didn't really mind it at all but as we got towards the end it started getting more & more difficult to add and erase everything and keep up with the pace. Overall I can't say I hated it but I thought it was fallry difficult at times, but there is nothing better than a good challenge so although it was tough at times I did enjoy working with charcoal and seeing how easy it is to make mistakes with it and just even seeing how it can enhance a drawing like that. This was my Tuesday experience in D.E.A.D. Art class! 

Three Forms Drawing

Today in art class we had D.E.A.D. (drop everything and draw), because it is Tuesday. So we had different tools that we could use like charcoal, both white and black and then three different objects, a small paper cup, wood rectangle toy block, and a pine cone. Seeing the examples that she had placed on the board I was kind of not really sure of what to expect coming into the project. We gathered all of our supplies and I immediately started drawing. I tried really looking at key details so that my drawing would come out great. After getting started I am not going to lie I liked it, I liked it because I don't think of myself as the strongest drawer, but with the outcome I was pretty impressed with myself and the fact that asking for help really also helps. Overall I liked this drawing in comparison to the other one we did the other day with the still piece. I had fun exploring new things and that is why I mostly liked it. I got to know the inner drawer in me!

Talk And Draw

Today in Art we had a fun activity, we had to sit on the inside of the desk and describe what we saw to our partners who could not turn around. I was the drawer first and I thought it was pretty easy. I thought that my partner had a pretty good idea of what she was describing and I just trusted what she would say and then try to draw it so that it would look that way. I love drawing even though I will admit I am not the best, that's why I thought it wasn't going to be so hard but after a while I was really tempted to just look, it made me feel unable to be in control and it kind of made me think a little more about how I was drawing what and how I was drawing it. The second task was the describer and that was just so hard for me! haha I thought I could do it but I realized I need to learn more words that describe what I see in my everyday life. Overall I liked the new experience of having to trust what my partner says and everything it was definitely different. Thumbs up from me Ms.Roberts!