6th Grade Contour Shoe Drawings

The 6th graders learned about descriptive, contour line drawings.  They practiced drawing their own shoes from life.  They gained a lot of confidence in their drawing abilities by drawing directly what they saw.  Many commented that they didn't know they could draw as well as they did.  They then turned their realistic controur line drawings, into surreal fantasies. 

6th Grade Value Snowman

This was a very fast lesson on value (lights to darks) on colored construction paper.  The students caught on very fast as to how to make "realistic" snowmen/women.   We started by drawing in the basic shape of our snowpeople and background.  Then, the students worked from the darkest shade, blue, to the lightest, white. 

Playing Catch-Up!

  Agghh!!! I'm so tardy in posting some of the great stuff we've been doing in Art!!  Time is slipping away.  Before break, the Adaptive Art classes made these adorable slab ornaments for gifts to give to their families: