WELCOME 2ND QUARTER 7TH GRADERS

COLORED PENCIL SPHERES

7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 2016-2017 - 3RD QUARTER

colored pencil on paper

When 7th graders come to me they are used to using colored pencils like crayons,

pushing down hard on the paper.

But Colored Pencils need to be build up with many thin delicate layers,

and crosshatching is often a favorite method to do this with.

I teach the kids to shade using one of these 3 methods,

Monochromatically, Analogously or Complimentary.

I demo and we practice one day and the next they do one to turn in for points.

Let's look at two outstanding examples. 

Pearl Wang blew us all out of the water with this remarkable work.

So sophisticated in both design and technique.

She is an up and coming superstar in the Arts here at Whitney as is her little sis Sabrina.

And this next piece by Tiffany Cheng is incredible as well.

These little ones amaze and delight me,

most of the time.

Ha ha

Now let's see which of my new 2nd Quarter 7th graders bothered to read this post.

For 2 points of extra credit on Tuesday when you walk in the door,

hand me a small quarter piece sheet of paper

 that you have tried to do a SMALL colored pencil sphere on.

Even if you don't think it turned out very good,

that's ok,

just looking to see if you read this post.

Put your name on the back side of the paper,

si I know who to give the points to.