Drawing extensions

 

One of the behaviors we do as an artist is Stretch and Explore.  Artists try things that might be difficult and discover new ideas and ways of working. 

Let's look at ways to Stretch and Explore in the Drawing Studio!

So you made an outline drawing of flowers, that's great!  What could you do to Stretch and Explore? 

How about drawing a few more flowers and painting them. Cut them out and glue them down as a layer of collaged flowers to your drawing.  The drawing becomes the background and the painted flowers are in the foreground. 

Cut out your drawing and glue it to a vibrant background that might be painted, collaged with striped of paper or colored with markers. 

Try making a drawing with markers.  Mr. Sketch markers are watercolor markers💡.  Try blending your drawing with water and a brush.  

Try drawing with white colored pencil or construction paper crayons on black paper.  

Create a drawing in pencil and color in your work with colored pencils.

Paint first! Take your dry painting to the drawing studio and draw on the painting.

Try stippling.  Instead of coloring your drawing back and forth, try filling your page with dots of color.  Or maybe a part of your drawing will be stippled and the rest will be colored in.

Is paper the only thing you can draw on? Draw on cardboard.  Cut out your drawing and turn it into a sculpture.


Create patterns and designs on a piece of paper.  Cut into strips.  Twirl, twist and glue to create a 3D work.

Draw on acetate

Keystage 2

Drawing Skill Builder--One point perspective 

A drawing has one-point perspective when it contains only one vanishing point on the horizon line. This type of perspective is typically used for images of roads, railway tracks, hallways, or buildings viewed so that the front is directly facing the viewer. ... These parallel lines converge at the vanishing point.

When creating One Point Perspective, there is a vanishing point.

Vanishing Point: 

1. 1.

   the point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge.
2. 2.

   the point at which something that has been growing smaller or increasingly faint disappears altogether.

Today we are doing another Skill-Builder.  In your book, you will try One Point Perspective. 

You will need a sharpened pencil and ruler. 

Once you have drawn basic One Point Perspective try to expand this learning with color and details.

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Trust the Process

One of the most fun parts of art can be the process (the actions and steps used when working with art materials) and experimenting with materials.  Simply put, art can be fun to make.  

The artistic behavior or studio habit of experimenting, discovering new materials and ways of working with materials is to EXPLORE.

Let's look at a few ways you might EXPLORE in the art studio.

Grab a messy mat and see what happens when you add a few drops of paint to your paper and pull/scrape the paint across your paper with a square of cardboard.

A few dots of color can go a long way!  Just a dot not a lot!

Instead of a brush, scrape and pull paint across the paper.  Draw or collage on the colorful paper the next class.  


Sometimes a material we typically throw away can create some very cool art.  Try the process of bubble wrap printing.  Choose colorful tempera paint and brush it across the "bumpy" side of the bubble wrap.  Press onto your paper.  Repeat!

So you have some dotted paper, now what?  Next class, make a collage with your dotted paper or draw on top.

This one definitely requires a placemat!  Liquid watercolors have bright bold colors.    Start with 10 squirts of paint.  After 10, get permission for more.

Try a TAPE or Oil Pastel RESIST.*Let paint dry before removing tape.

Lay leaves or flowers on your paper and spray a fine mist.  Let your paint dry before removing the leaves.

Take that colorful misted paper over to drawing.  Create a Silhouette.  Draw an outline in pencil and then fill in your drawing with Sharpie.  A landscape is a great possibility for a silhouette.

Take your colorful sprayed paper to the collage studio and cut it into shapes and glue them into a picture you have envisioned.

Add Paint with Kwik Stix and glue down construction paper shapes.

Splatter paint is a permission only painting technique.  You will need a box that fits your paper and a messy mat for sure!

Try starting in the drawing studio and splatter painting onto a drawing.

Will you explore with art materials?

Will you stretch yourself and try to make art with your exploration?

*There is a difference between exploring and being wasteful!