Sketching 9-18-2011(9-10 yrs old)

"The Person I Like" 9-18-2011 ( 7 year old)

This week our class topic is " to draw your favorite person". Some of the students choose their parents, some are siblings, and a few of them just want to draw themselves. In the class we talked about how human being look like and the basic shapes and portions of human body. In addition we talked each person has different hair and dressing style that make each of us unique. I did quickly draw for a few funny figures on the board that made most of the students laugh. Now our class is very relax and our students have full ideas for today's topic. After finish their outlines for the figures, I still ask them to force on the complementary colors which we talked during last week. At the end of class, I really see many shining colors.

Sketching 9-17-2011 (9-12 yrs old)

Sketching 9-11-2011(9-10 yrs old)

I had five girls and one boy for this drawing class. I'm not satisfy with the photo I took after the class, I think they did better then the photo here and I may try to retake photo for this drawings. Anyway our students did very good job!

"One Day to Remember" 9/11/2001 (7 yrs-old)

For our seven years old class today's topic is teddy bear. our class started with "brain storm". It just likes the beginning of the writing, we need get all ideas with related with the topic out first. At the beginning we talked a lot about their favorite teddy bears. Most of them don't like the teddy bears when they were little, but most of them want color their teddy bear brown ( at the end of class I really see a lot brown teddy bears). Then we talked about the basic shapes of the subject such as the shape of head looks like circle, its body looks like oval, and its arm looks like the shape of sausage, Yum!( It's seemed our whole class are hungry now.) Also today it's the 10Th anniversary to the memory of Set. 11, we talked little bit about what had happened on that day. In addition we took a close look for the colors and shapes for the American flag and some students put the flag as the background of the teddy bear and some of them even put our Chinese flag on. What a lovely international idea! At the end class we have teddy as a ballerina, teddy in the forest, teddy in the apple orchard, and teddy at the big mountain. Look our seven years old group did these gorgeous drawings and colorings, and how powful their imagimations are once they come out!

Sketching 9-10-2011 (9-12 yrs old)

I have four boys and one girl in this class and look their fantastic jobs.

Portrait Study

Female Figure Study

Portrait Study

Male Figure Study

Portrait Study

Reading

Portrait Study

Charcoal Study

Charcoal study

Can you see the difference between the two drawings? I use my finger to reduce the edge of the charcoal drawing and creat gray value of the tone.