This and That—Day Four The Night of the Rose

Tonight I challenged my teen students with something new—The Rose Project. With this project we will explore:

• Using colour pencil
• Monochromatic colour
• Tone/Value
• Drawing from a grid
• Proportion
• Shading

Using our grid technique, tonight we created line drawings of a rose from a photo reference. Drawing from a grid and making the drawing larger than the reference can be challenging. It is important to continually be checking to be sure that your lines remain true to the proportions of your original.

With our line drawings complete, we will be colouring our rose with a monochromatic palette. While we want our final drawing to be coloured with only one hue, we will actually use complementary colours to create the shadows in our drawing! In the end, two colours layered together will create the neutral tones necessary to create the look of one colour. I have never actually done this project myself so I am very excited to try this technique!

We will also get the chance to colour and shade with pencil crayon. Using pencil crayons can be very different from regular pencils as their more wax like consistency prevents them from blending as much as graphite.

As a follow up from our complementary colour bugs from last week, here is some of the amazing finished student work for your viewing pleasure—