1st Grade Proportional Portrait Practice Drawings

The first grade class is studying how to draw a person’s face using proportion and measurements.  Students discussed the various shapes they see in a face as well as relative sizes and positions of these features.  You will notice guidelines in the drawings that helped students position features on the face.

This exercise in proportion and looking at the details in a human face are in preparation for self-portrait collages they will be starting soon using construction paper.  Please enjoy a few examples from Ms. Clark’s class.

4th Grade Figure Sculptures are Fabulous.

The 4th grade artists have been working on gesture drawings that are being used as the maps for figure sculptures.  We started with wire armatures (skeleton), added tinfoil muscles and are working on the paper mache skins.  The figure sculptures will be painted in metallic paints and on display as a group later in the quarter.  Stay tuned for more photos and updates.

Fun with paper mache

Working hard in art class.

 

Figure sculptures drying after first layer of paper mache has been applied.