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students on tour

10April2013by k. Leave a comment

The NL-S Art Teacher, Ms. Weber, let me take four of her students on a plant tour of Printmasters in Willmar. The kids got a chance to see how […]

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This week, we worked on depicting clouds in a drawing. It is a lot more complicated than we assume, so we focused on building tones in the sky using different techniques. Then, we took the tone off again to form our clouds. Graphite on, graphite off, just like Mr Miyagi says. This is the good stuff, Danny.

This lesson, I was told, was very ambitious. We began by making charts and value scales of tints and shades. Some of us worked in watercolor, some in gouache. I worked in both in order to compare and contrast the way our brain has to work differently for each. Then we painted glass bottles-also ambitious. We were ready, and the work we shared was really, really fine. The good stuff was transparent this time!

My word for the year is "noticing," and this season is a perfect time to exercise it. Join me in noticing the things you pass by every day. Look a little closer. See a little deeper. Listen a little longer. 🤩 Carry on!

It has been a study in inks around here: learning the variety, the purpose, and how to set expectations. We warmed up for real, then got to work on our drawing form. Working in ink takes a different kind of courage, but if you practice your bravery, your work gets easier AND better. We're deep in the good stuff over here!

We continued our study of a vintage-inspired, muted palette with a look at birds. We tried a mopped daisy, practiced on one bird and got serious on another. By the end, we knew ourselves better and felt even more comfortable with our medium. Confidence takes awhile, but it is definitely the good stuff.

This was billed as a study of a coffee pot, but it was so much more. We worked in pen & ink, building midtones and shadows with lines of all kinds. Our warmup included value scales and a quick self portrait. Once we conquered all that, the coffee pot study was a breeze. This is the good stuff!

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