December 28, 2012
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Charcoal & Children
Lesson Two: Cup & Curl
So I didn’t like how deep the first book jumped into charcoal after its first initial intro to tools/technique. Luckily, I’d ordered a book from the library called “Start Sketching and Drawing Now” (LINK). The voice it’s written in is more kid-friendly, and we like it. I don’t plan to buy it (it’s expensive!!), but we can check it out of the library, occasionally. And use it WITH our other book. We’ll see.What we learned this week is that drawing with sketchy, light lines is too broken and fuzzy. That drawing with regular, even-pressured lines that are unbroken is too boring and plain. What you want is to hold your pencil the wonky-way, hold it to your easel, and try to get a shape by making a variety of lines. I’m SO, SO, SO glad they gave us an example to follow:
(Sometimes attributed to Longfellow)
There was a little girl,
and she had a little curl,
right in the middle of her forehead.
And when she was good,
she was very, very good,
but when she was bad,
she was horrid.One day she went upstairs
while her parents, unawares,
in the kitchen down below
were at their meals.And she stood upon her head,
on her little trundle bed,
and she then began hurraying
with her heels.Her mother heard the noise,
and thought it was the boys,
a-playing at a combat
in the attic.But when she climbed the stair
and saw Jemima there,
she took her and did spank her
most emphatic!NoTeS: Interestingly, nobody did a drawing of a spankin’. All except Lydia drew a little girl kicking her feet against the wall. Well… it is a vivid image, LoL!! Brian added a cat, Ethan added a mother, and Isaac added transformers under the bed (naturally). But y’know what? I *HATE* the way my editing program handles these. I’m trying to score an Adobe Photoshop 4 off eBay that’ll boot up to my system in a compatibility mode, because… it took THREE different programs just to do this, and they all stink. Yeah, well. Hopefully that’ll be fixed, soon. Still, if you want to enlarge, you know to click, right?
Comments (1)
Those are good! Especially the poetry ones!