Spring Art Club Begins

Our new session of Art Club began on Thursday, January 22. We are fully booked but only had 12/15 show up for our first class. I will try to talk to the missing 3 artists to make sure they will be joining us or I will be contacting the students on our waiting list. So if you were missing please come see me right away.

Our first class back we went over the basics of drawing faces and drawing the basic body . There is a formula to make sure that your proportions look natural. 

Your eyes are at the 1/2 line, the nose goes onto the 1/4 line, and the mouth touches the 1/8 line as a start.

Then the whole body has a similar method for proportioning. By using the "head" as a guide.

Most female bodies are 6-7 heads in height and aprox. 2 heads wide.

After our warm up sketches, we started our first project. We will need all 15 (myself being #16) to complete our project in order for it to look like the collage I'm hoping for. This is the inspiration for this project:

Each student was assigned their own type of candy to draw for our "Candy Collage". The ideas were to enlarge the logo/packaging to run off the page. Each student designed their 6X6 piece of paper and then drew their candy. Most of the artists were finished drawing by the end of the class. Our next class we will colour our designs just with pencil crayons, but we will try to make sure we have shadows, shading and highlights. 

As this is our first week back I did not assign a weekly sketchbook assignment, but have asked that all the students decorate the covers of their sketchbooks to make is look as unique as they are. If any artist would like to put the plastic cover over their covers, it is available at Dollaramma for $1. It can be found with the stationary department, and is called "Book Protector". If you would like me to put the cover on for you just bring the roll into class with you, and I will help. Other things you can use would be packing tape or you can leave it as is. It's up to the artists how they decorate their covers. They can draw on it, paste pics to it....etc. Just be as creative as you can be.

We also have a Pinterest board that will show where my ideas and project come from. If you are on Pinterest you are totally welcome to follow this board to see what we are up to weekly. I won't show anything that is coming up....only what we have done in the classroom. 

Here is the link: St. Mary Art Club Pintest Board