Contour line hands and color theory

With all of the snow we had this quarter, I ended up having to break their drawings into smaller shorter projects.  I really like to have thier drawing and color theory projects be larger, but we were at the mercy of the weather this quarter.  Our first venture into countour line occured with hand drawings and color scheme collages.

We then went directly into using mannequins to draw forms in space with value.  We used graphite for the shading and thier main task was finding how the values could create round forms on a flat sheet of paper.

A different kind of self portrait.

The seventh grade did so well on their self portrait projects.  I have been working on having the students use more of their personal voices, so I allowed them to guide how they organized their work to represent who they are and their personal interests.  Some of the students were very inventive in what they came up with and I learned a lot about them too!