"Magic Garden" By: Amy Giacomelli
This was a contemporary abstract piece that we used to learn about the thicknesses of branches and creating realistic trees. We did a 30 second tree drawing and then used "Magic Garden" and "Olive Grove" to see how other artists capture trees. Then the students got to go outside and draw trees from observation. We even got to take them on a short nature walk so the could see the other kinds of trees that are located along the trail on the side of the school. Upon arrival back in the classroom students put their first drawing and second drawing together and analyzed the differences of drawing from their memory and relying on what they know compared to drawing from direct observation.
"Olive Grove" By: Winston Churchill
This piece was used to help students observe "organic shapes" and learn how to capture trees from observation without relying on "lollipop" trees.
"Stripey T-Shirt" By Kai Regan
Students learned about silhouettes and gesture drawings after looking at Kai Regan's artwork. This lesson students were in pairs for a classroom dance party and they learned how to draw gesture drawings using their partners dance pose. After we did a few short exercises students did a 3 minute gesture on black paper and after the finished they cut out the silhouette of the dancer and got to put on their classroom dance party poster. I made one for each class! Some classes will be doing this during my last week of teaching.
These lessons were written and taught by Miss Davila :)
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