Water Color Resist Blind Contour Drawings
Check out the results of this weeks blind contour drawings.
Blind Contour Drawings
The first drawing exercise students did was Upside-Down Drawing. Students learned that there is a specific way of looking and thinking that works for drawing and that doing upside-down drawings helps you practice that particular way of looking and thinking.
Next students learned how to do Blind Contour Drawing; drawing the contours, or edges, of something as though your eyes were glued to that edge, but never looking at the paper while drawing. Obviously, the drawings will not be very realistic, if you can’t look to see where to put all the parts, but we learned that the drawings are amazingly lifelike even though they aren’t realistic.
See student’s blind contour drawings on Drawing Unit Page.
Good-bye Ms. Bingham
We sadly said good-bye to Ms. Bingham today, after having her with us for the past month as an intern from the USM Art Ed. Program. The good news is that she will be back, although not until March. We look forward to March and in the meantime will miss her very pleasant and very helpful presence in the art room!
Here she is demonstrating watercolor washes as the Art 2 class looks on.
Multiple Intelligences
Intelligence is complex. 
Research has shown that the brain performs many different functions.
Howard Gardner has identified eight different functions, or intelligences so far.
To learn more, click the link below.
Drawing Unit
Essential Questions: 
1. Why do some people draw “better” than others?
2. How can you improve your drawing skills?
3. What makes a drawing a “good” drawing?
Sketch Folder
After completing the Elements of Design Unit, students created sketch folders.
First, they make paste paper: paper coated with several colors of paste thickened paint. Then they mix the colors and coat thhe paper. Finally a variety of tools are used to scrape away patterns from the top layer of paste paint, revealing the brightly colors paper underneath.
Students then use their paste paper to construct their folders.
Sketch Folder Product Descriptor
