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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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Again with some catch-up from our last two sessions of Drawing Club... We've been working on building depth in a drawing through several techniques, using different materials. Sometimes we keep it neat, sometimes we end up with graphite or chalk all over everything. This is the good stuff.

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The Drawing Club regulars know that I discourage eraser usage in most drawing exercises. I believe drawing is a forward activity; erasers just cloud the learning. So this week I made erasers the drawing tool so everyone could learn to use them with intention. It was a real brain bender, but the results were spectacular! This is the good stuff.

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The Mixed Media group began building layered gouache skies while we reviewed the creative influences of Nikola Tesla. We built two paintings at once to keep working while the other one was drying. Frustrations were flushed out, some new tricks were successful and the lightning creatures marched across the sea. This is the good stuff.

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