Kids Art

Drawing lessons in the elementary schools today. We worked on observational drawing starting with light contours, medium value shading then focus on details. These were drawn by a table of 9-10 year olds.

Teaching Art to Kids

Teaching every day this week in the Elementary schools - we are warming up with some Blind Contours (no looking at your drawing and don't lift your pencil off the paper) of our hands and our neighbor's faces - you can imagine how hilarious the kids find this! But while they laugh, it is amazing how many details they are seeing. I forgot to take photos of their work, but here is one of my Blind Contour hand demos and a Contour face demo

Kid Art

Finished up Lesson 2 in my Basic Drawing Curriculum as Artist In Residence at 2 elementary schools! 15 classrooms, over 350 kids in grades 2-5. Whew!
(Above is a drawing by a kid in 4th/5th grade class)

Art by 4th grader during Lesson 3 of my Basic Drawing classes in the elementary schools.

... And an onion for class 

Artist in Residence

 Reverse Charcoal by 2nd Grader

SO excited to be offered the Artist in Residence position at Ben Franklin Elementary!

I'll be working with all 3rd, 4th and 5th graders, plus 2nd grade Quest classes starting in mid March... I can't wait to work with kids again!