mikeville (70)in #art • 6 months agoSimple pencil/marker/watercolor design for kidsWe started a new class this month and I am going back to the basics with this new crew of students. One of the main…mikeville (70)in #art • 8 months agoA student made a portrait sketch and asked me to guessI haven't been told if I am correct or not about this sketch that a student made of someone famous and asked me to…mikeville (70)in #art • 9 months agoFree-hand drawing from a studentWe started out using the grid system which is simply an app on a tablet that will draw a grid on any image and allow…mikeville (70)in #art • 10 months agoSketch turned watercolor by a studentWe have moved on from watercolors recently and were focusing almost entirely on pencils and were about to move over to…mikeville (70)in #drawing • 10 months agoAnother impressive portrait drawn by a pre-teen studentIn the next week or so we are going to move to more advanced materials in our art lessons. One of the major things…mikeville (70)in #art • 10 months agoStages of a portrait sketchNow that we have been working with a grid system for quite a while I wanted to challenge the students to try to do a…mikeville (70)in #art • 11 months agoStudents embracing the "grid system" for learning to draw portraitsFor many experienced artists, the "grid system" can be seen as cheating and I suppose it is and wasn't available to us…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearFrustration with art: It's going to happenIn my weekly free classes that I teach to mostly children we sometimes see some extreme levels of frustration emerge…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearGoing above and beyond in a sketchMy students have seriously embraced the tactic I taught them about doing pencil sketches first, then going back over…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearQuick sketch of a castle by a studentI'm pretty confident that all children are fascinated by castles and will draw them at some point. I know that when…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearThe unimportance of realism with people in your basic paintings: silly is fun!A lot of the students in my classes are easily frustrated with how difficult it can be to accurately represent people…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearStudent does a watercolor with much more detail than I was expectingI teach a free art class twice a week for mostly children. We are open to all ages but the adults that turn up…mikeville (70)in #sketching • last yearAsked my students to do a sketch and see if I can guess who it isWe work on mostly simple stuff here in my classes but I also have focused about 20% of our time on the intricacies of…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearHighlighted student artwork from my classesI teach free classes for the community here once or twice a week and for the most part the students are children. We…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearA student "quick sketch" followed by some minor watercolorsI have this little trick that I use on my students to try to get their creative side to emerge. Unlike with most…mikeville (70)in #painting • last yearTrying watercolors without sketching with pencils and pen firstMostly, I have my students get a picture ready by first using pencils to get an outline and then filling in what they…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearGoing back to basics with watercolorsMy students were getting kind of tired of working on portraits so we returned to something that most of them really…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearTrying portrait drawing without grids after weeks of grid trainingWe have been working on portraits in my classes lately because I feel that the human face is one of the most…mikeville (70)in #art • last yearMore grid template portraitsA student devised an adaptation of the grid program and I was quite proud of them for innovating on something that I…mikeville (70)in #drawing • last yearGrid program for another pencil portraitIt was a bit of a gamble on my part but the students have really taken to using a grid program that I introduced them…
