TWIGS & STICKS

CHARCOAL CONES

7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 1ST QUARTER - 2017-2018

charcoal on paper

Even though this is a messy assignment,

the little ones do a remarkably good job with this medium

while managing to keep themselves fairly clean in the process.

Most of the time.

Ha ha

What's really hard for them is keeping their drawing paper clean & not smudging their work.

Or if they do smudge,

make it work for them as background or foreground.

Let's see how they did.

The one above was made by Alanna Chan

She managed to keep her piece very clean with great looking textures.

In this next one by Sabrina Wang,

she worked her smudges into her background area which created wonderful value.

I also feel the halos she placed around the cones and cast shadow very appealing.

Here we see Azalea Han using her fingers to smudge the backdrop on purpose.

I also really like the geometric lines she incorporated in to the background.

Because Halloween was approaching when we did this assignment 

Serena Lee let that be her inspiration for her design.

And Eileen Rodriguez Salahi

 created this amazing woven backdrop design which must have taken hours.

So worth it Eileen.

Great job all of you!