Wednesday 21 November 2012

Finding inspiration everywhere we go!

If you haven't yet taken the time to capture your latest adventures over the past week holiday, be sure to do so. You can draw at home, with any pencil and paper to capture your memories whether you were traveling, spending time with family, learning something new or just enjoying time off from school. Thomas saw some amazing tropical fish when he visited Thailand last week and use a page in his sketchbook today to record his memory of the fish. Way to think like an artist on holiday and draw the new things you saw! The drawing looks great too with such good detail. Grab a pencil and draw something you saw or did recently and put the artist in you to work!

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Perspective Drawing in Grade 5

For the past five weeks grade five have been studying and looking into one and two-point perspective drawings with squares and rectangles. Perspective drawing looks easy and will be easy if you follow the correct steps. Here are the steps to make a successful one-point perspective drawing.

TOOLS YOU NEED: A ruler, a pencil, and an eraser...If you want to color it, crayons or color pencils.

  1. Draw a horizon line somewhere on your page; A horizon line is where the ground and sky meet.
  2. Add a vanishing point anywhere on the horizon line; A vanishing point is where everything disappears.
  3. Draw a rectangle or square under or over the horizon line. It depends on what perspective you want it to look. 
  4. Draw perspective lines by taking the vertices or edges and making a line toward the vanishing point but if the line would go through the shape, don't draw the line/s. 
  5. Draw a parallel line from the side of the shape that has the perspective lines. Make sure the line goes touches only two of the lines; the ones that towards the side. Now on top of the shape, draw another parallel line on the part you haven't drawn lines.
  6. Now, your drawing looks like a cube with extra lines. from the parts you drew the parallel lines erase the lines so that it looks like you are done. Now, if you want to make it a house or anything else, add a roof and background. Make sure the sky is ABOVE the horizon line. 



BY TESS & KAAVYA FROM 5A

Thursday 8 November 2012

Storytelling in Grade 3

In grade 3 we have just finished our big unit on shape.  Check out the masterpieces on display on the third floor near the grade 3 cafe. The Picasso Self-Portraits explored the use of geometric shapes to create portraits inspired by the Cubism style with beautiful colored pencil shading. The second project exploring organic shapes started with a wet-on-wet painting technique that evolved into a story telling process. Each third grader wrote a story based on the images they found in their colorful "blob" paintings. Here are links to the class Voicethreads from 3A, 3B and 3C sharing their narrated artwork: 

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