a faithful attempt: Face Drawing

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"A Faithful Attempt" is designed to showcase a variety of K-12 art lessons, the work of my art students, as well as other art-related topics. Projects shown are my take on other art teacher's lessons, lessons found in books or else designed by myself. Thanks for visiting!
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Face Drawing

Here are some examples of some portrait drawings in pencil by former students--- I usually have students draw both from life and from photos. We go over value, do a value scale and I demonstrate how to use a tortillon (blending stump) and kneadable eraser- both indespensible tools for drawing realistically, imo.

In the past, once these are completed, I have photocopied them and then the student can experiment with other media (oil pastels, watercolours, charcoal, etc) over the top, whilst still keeping the original.

Ta da!

Grade 9

Grade 12, self portrait

1 comment:

Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree said...: Love the idea that you photo copy the original and let your students try different media! Awesome!; March 20, 2012 at 12:20 PM