Tonight our little class worked on the last step to finish our bugs in complementary colours. As we saw our bright bugs pop out from their dark backgrounds, it was interesting to see the different techniques used by different students to create shading. I saw simple hatching, cross-hatching and curved hatching. This project was great for learning about:
- complimentary colour
- working with oil pastel and crayon
- drawing inverted images
- looking shadows and highlights
- using different techniques to create shadows
The final product created lovely triads as seen below—
The drawing above is my own. As some of the students were not able to finish their final drawing in class, I have no new photos of student work. Hopefully next week, I can show you the great results!
As a precursor to our next class, we also discussed using grids to create drawings. Our next project will start with this technique.
I have to recommend, once again, Art for Kids: Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted as this book provided me with stellar examples of how to used grids to not only copy an image but how to create a distorted version of images. Check it out... pages 55 and 56. I rather wish they had not titled this book "for kids" cause it is truly beautiful and so useful for aspiring artists of all ages. Way to go author Kathryn Temple!
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