-Henry David Thoreau
Each fifth grade artist used one of his/her own photographs taken on our photography field trip to the beautiful Missouri Botanical Gardens to use as inspiration for a drawing, ceramic sculpture, and painting. This is a rigorous exercise in observation and perspective! It is also a wonderful way to experiment in different mediums to discover new strengths and work with challenges.
For the drawing portion of this project, students learned how to make a value chart and show roundness of form using shading, highlights, and shadow with special 2H-6B drawing pencils. They chose to render their full photograph, a portion of the photograph, or to abstract the photograph.
9 comments:
Wow. Those drawings are spectacular!
These are so impressive! 5th grade!? They did such an outstanding job with value and shading and composition.
WOW! These are unbelievable. So simple but so effective. Your kids did an amazing job with their compositions and values. Tell your cover girl I like her style;)
Thank you for the nice comments:)
They ALL turned out amazing. Clearly I had trouble narrowing down what to show in this post:) I wish I could share them all. I'm very proud of their hard work and creativity.
We spent all year on photography and composition so these are the culminating results. Drawing time took 3 to 4 art classes.
Amazing and very inspiring! I have been planning on having my students use their own photographs for their art. Your lesson has definitely motivated me to get on
it.
Beautiful observational drawings by your students.
The shading and composition is amazing.
This drawing exercise was a success.
Your students did a great job! You can really see all the details and nuances!
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Congratulations.
wow! those drawings just blow me a way. kudos to you and your students!
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