Painting from life starts with a drawing

Painting from life starts with a drawing 

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Please keep in mind that very few of these students ever drew in an academic or had formal training. most of them never drew at all... Please comments are encouraged, especially since the students would love to hear the feedback.

painting portraits

Students creations and a sample work

 

This is a demonstration for my students to follow. The recipe is to follow: within a frame, draw lines, shapes, and progressive interwoven colors and alternate filling the shapes. The teaching is to provoke the interest, and appetite as well as jump-start their interest as well as exposes students to visual principles that they themselves can comprehend and or ignore. Interestingly enough, this was the testing of personal character through the process of achieving the goal of accomplishing. Depending on how well the instructions were followed is the result of a successful result, this also includes the cleaning of their

brushes, these actions speak volumes, as well as the interaction between themselves to solve problems. all this I believe would bare the foundation of how well they would do in a real-life. This project draws a picture of themselves all due to their level of difficulty and overcoming its challenges.

mona lisa

Accidents happen

Accidents happen and here a cup of water spilled on the hard work with horror.  I  said to the student this is the opportunity to correct and make it new once again. The students all with disbelief  said "how is it that possible"!

Step one cut out all the damaged 

 Step 2 prepare a backing paper use the same paper used for the project

Step 3 uses the cut out to draw the outline of the new piece of paper

Step 4 now that the outline is drawn on the new piece glue up the areas that will not be shown  when it is glued under the painting

                                                                             

Step 5 now redraws the missing parts that were damaged 

Step 6 

High School Life Portraits