Grade 10 students learned about the art of American Pop artist
Wayne Thiebaud. I brought in a bunch of cupcakes and donuts and the students spent some time drawing and shading them in their sketchbooks first. Then they started with acrylics- mixing colors, building up layers and shading and highlighting. Some used acrylic thickener medium to give a real impasto effect to the frosting.
These cupcakes remained scarily 'preserved' for the two weeks that we used them....
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| mixing different tints to get realistic shading for the pink frosting |
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| adding the white highlights last |
Great job Grade 10's!
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| glued on real sprinkles |
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| detail showing the actual thick texture |
