Mixed Media Growth and Decay Still Life Drawing
Students in 2D Art: Painting and Drawing learned about shading techniques, including values, hatching, cross hatching and blending. Students learned how to use vine charcoal sticks, charcoal pencils, Prismacolor colored pencils and a variety of drawing pencils. Thumbnail sketches were completed in a timed drawing session. Once this was complete, students had to choose and present reasoning of composition choice and to draw a single flower or a vase of flowers. The flowers were soaking in paint thinner and were dying over the course of the project. I wanted for students to experience a still-life with life or the lack there of. Students divided their composition into a grid of six squares. Two squares were required to be charcoal, colored pencil and pencil. Students were challenged to consider isolating color and where it was the most important and impactful visually to do so.
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