Penguins in the Desert?

Henri Rousseau was our inspiration for these sixth grade drawings.  The students were incouraged to use thier imaginations like Rousseau to draw animals in an enviroment.  Rousseau enjoyed going the zoo and looking at pictures of animals to grasp how animals looked, but he didn't always get the landscape correct.  We completed these drawing on 18x 12 paper with color pencils.  The emphasis was on layering and blending colors and creating changes in values.

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.