Lesson 2 chicks and rocks

We move forward from last week's pencil drawing and ink outline of the chicks, into 3 simple strokes of head and body while maintaining the walking egg.  We emphasized the beak and eye relation, the legs and it's backwards bended knees.  Some students are still very frustrated with this challenge of painting birds, but their impression is forming gradually, the repeated focus on various birds eventually will develop their confidence. You may view their paintings displayed on the school hall way. I outlined some of their chicks to show them that it'll all workout.

We also contrasted the wet stroke for the chicks and the dry stroke for the rocks in this lesson.  I painted interactively with the students to help them with the form of the rocks. Nex week we will have fun coloring them.

2013 Spring Lesson 1

This term we are going to study birds.  We start with the simplest bird, chicks.  We start our chick with an egg.  We place 2 feet on the egg so it is a walking egg. Then we poke their heads out, lastly we add the wing and optional tail.  This is a pencil study and ink outline.  If you have friends who may want to paint with us.  They are welcome to join in next week.  It is a 12 weeks session.  New students can still catch up.
We will perch some birds next week.  

Lesson 15 Carnation

Lesson 14 azalea

Lesson 13 Ducks

lesson 12

Angel fish

Lesson 11

Dear Creative friend


letting the painting tell you what it needs. While it's all about surrendering to the work itself,
it's also the quality of the dialogue in front of it. Well-chosen placement of the confident strokes gives us great satisfaction.  Then they all speakt and tell us what we really are inside.   As it is said, "How do I know what I
think until I hear what I say." In our case, "How do I know what I know until I paint"

We did grapes last week. Your students are now very comfortable in loading their brush.  They are very deliberate in executing each strokes.  You should see their focus and concentration when they paint.  Their paintings in the hall way may speak for themselves.  Enjoy it.

We don't have class this week, nor next week(Spring break).  We have 5 more classes after spring break.
I enjoy each and every class with your students.  Thank you for this opportunity.

Have a great Spring Break.