teaching kiddies about art on Monhegan Island
between fishing trips, hikes to the shipwreck and along the cliffs, collecting shells and seaglass, the kids were with me, on the warf, learning to paint and draw
trying to convince middle school boys (and younger) to slow down for a moment and draw takes a bit of effort, and some trickery. I had to introduce a new technique that would get them interested.
AND, watercolor has a stigma of being "difficult". So, I made the process easy and accessible by using oil pastel WITH watercolor. It makes for some interesting effects because the two don't really mix. (best illustrated by the white forms in the demo image above: note the upper right of that picture; two white images were put down first with oil pastel, then the watercolor wash laid over it)
each session worked as followed:
I'd give a quick demo (5 minutes is about their max attention span)
Ask them to pick one subject, as a group, that they would all draw/paint.
Allow them to draw/paint a subject of their own choosing for a second piece of work.
Then I'd hop around, rock to rock, dock piling to rope shed steps, giving some individual help to each kid.
all of the four drawings above are my demo drawings made quickly while giving an intro talk
I'm putting a bit more effort into getting the campers' work color corrected so that they can be put up on the camp's website.
between fishing trips, hikes to the shipwreck and along the cliffs, collecting shells and seaglass, the kids were with me, on the warf, learning to paint and draw
trying to convince middle school boys (and younger) to slow down for a moment and draw takes a bit of effort, and some trickery. I had to introduce a new technique that would get them interested.
AND, watercolor has a stigma of being "difficult". So, I made the process easy and accessible by using oil pastel WITH watercolor. It makes for some interesting effects because the two don't really mix. (best illustrated by the white forms in the demo image above: note the upper right of that picture; two white images were put down first with oil pastel, then the watercolor wash laid over it)
each session worked as followed:
I'd give a quick demo (5 minutes is about their max attention span)
Ask them to pick one subject, as a group, that they would all draw/paint.
Allow them to draw/paint a subject of their own choosing for a second piece of work.
Then I'd hop around, rock to rock, dock piling to rope shed steps, giving some individual help to each kid.
all of the four drawings above are my demo drawings made quickly while giving an intro talk
I'm putting a bit more effort into getting the campers' work color corrected so that they can be put up on the camp's website.
heartbaker:
Awesome