The "Harris Burdick Mysteries" homework, posted on this website, will be discussed on Tuesday 10-13 during "A" Basic Art. If you have not yet handed in your assignment, this note is to remind you a printed copy is required in your hand at the beginning of class. Please come prepared to post your outline and tell us and read about your inspiration.  You are all making this a fun assignment.
Thank you, Mrs. Dowd.

What is bag draw? Well...have some fun and draw from unexpected source items, sound mysterious, it is!

Industrial design sample article from National Geographic, July 2009

Draw that chicken! In class observation and creativty assignment. Using the gumball toy hens, pencil and kneaded eraser, set up your still life: View angles, make decisions on composition (how much to include and where), put in shadows and horizon line, set a mood, draw a scene or find an expression, change the angle and do another drawing. Have fun.

This copyrighted work of Chris Van Allsburg is here for your visual reference at home, etc. The purchased portfolio prints are in Rm 221, you may view them at any time.

Contour Shell drawing, please read "Making your Mark", from Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature, by Cathy Johnson, 1991

class assignment and notes

Sample: Remember to squint to see the brightest highlight shapes and not detail. Find the darkest shadows, lightly outline both. Practice bringing your lines and fill tones to a clean edge. Use kneaded eraser or stump to make lighter lines recede and to blend shadow shapes...not sure? try it again remember to use observation to compare what you see and draw :)

Erin's vase jpeg

Holding pencils and making marks, practice exercises.

Please note samples of lines made by contour hatching, cross-hatching, lines and leaving white space. Plese read descriptions of technique and try samples of each.