a faithful attempt: Castle Drawings

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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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My Grade 9's recently completed their castle illustrations. I gave them a handout showing the different elements of a medieval castle (turrets, towers, arrow slits, draw-bridge, etc) and showed them a slideshow of famous castles in Europe for more inspiration. They could use any media they wish- most used pencil, markers, coloured pencil and watercolours.

Some like to look up reference photos on their laptops (I have a love-hate relationship with laptops in the classroom....)