I LOVE hearing from teachers who are using “Drawing Lab” in their classrooms! Look at this fantastic work, created by high school students from Woodstock Collegiate Institute in Ontario, Canada!! Their teacher Sue writes:
Students spent three days creating many portraits…..they were to use photographs of family or friends, but for those who forgot to bring in photos, I had a collection that they could use. Students worked on 140 lb cold pressed watercolour paper cut to 5×7 inches.
– Station one was from Lab 9 Wrong Handed Portraits
– Station two was from Lab 11 Cheater Blinds
– Station three was from Lab 13 Eyedropper FacesOn the fourth day students were to experiment with colour on all of the images they had created over the previous three days. Students could use watercolours, pencil crayons, markers, gel pens, etc.
To finish off the project, on the fifth day, students needed to look at all of their images, and pick three that could work together as one art work. They did not have to select one from each of the three stations…..students could chose whichever ones they wanted from their stash. Once they had the images chosen, students followed an instruction sheet on how to cut the mat. They had several colours of paper to select from for the matting.
Thank you, Sue, for sharing these with us!! Please tell your students… WONDERFUL work!
That must feel so validating to see how your tutorials reach out and out and out…
That is totally awesome! How proud you must be to have your book used in the classroom with such great results! Teacher Sue rocks! As do you. 🙂
Helen and Sacred — I do feel proud and validated!!
Some really cool ideas for an art class. Wish I had had a teacher like her in school.
I took your Silly 2 class last year and was needing a refresher, so I bought your Drawing Lab book over the weekend. I’m skipping around (hope that’s okay!) and have been doing cats in a LazyBoy (not bed, hope that’s okay!) and also drawing faces while I watch t.v. (I’m up to 33/100). Just thought I’d tell you I am getting silly all over again.
Love your work!
Joyce
Joyce — GREAT! (And it’s ALL okay, as you know!!)
great portraits and I love how the teacher broke down and organized the assignment. great work!
Wow! That is awesome! But no surprise…your book is wonderful!!!
this is lovely. what really touches me is that this is close to home…to hear of students from a town about 2 hours from here, using this in the classroom shows me how universal art is — it is amazing to see the talent of these young people and that the teacher took the time to share!