Halloween was seriously scary at Kids Make Art with the seriously challenging Observational Drawing of seriously Still Life Human Skulls.
But GOSH.....I was so impressed with how all these wonderful young artists embraced the challenge of learning about observational drawing. Such a universally hated subject but so important for a visual and special intelligence. No matter what anybody will tell you there is a group of skills and tricks to drawing that takes years to learn. So why not start now, I wish I had this opportunity at this age.
I was astonished how willing everyone was to try these skills out drawing 3D shapes. Trying basic shapes and measuring up in our speedy thumb nail sketches. Then the most difficult challenging part, the one I was find so hard, putting all these skills together, to create our Still-Life with A Skull Drawing.
It was intense learning but everyone did so well I had to share
these rough sketches because they are all just so great and all about creating
new skills, not the final product. The final drawings of the skulls were
fantastic, but I do not want to focus on those because the focus is and was
about the experimentation and exploration of these really new skills and
concepts. I did not get to take many pictures of the finals because it just
wasn’t about that! I found these were all so brilliant!
Some of the drawn skulls and cartoon skulls at the end here that everyone had a play
with in free time would never have been so cool if we had not explored some drawing techniques first.
