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When students first start art with me, I like to build their
drawing confidence by teaching them some simple things to draw such as the duck
(examples below), an underwater scene, and a moon with a face (I'll be adding
examples of these soon!)
Then we start talking about fun ways of doing lettering and
then 6 different ways to create an interesting
composition. Look below to see where students used overlapping,
shapes going off the edge, creating a frame,
showing movement, drawing
their letters inside shapes, and using a horizon line.
CREATIVE FOLDERS BY GRADE 6 go to color schemes
I have a handout listing many different inspirations for fun ways of lettering that they do. I also show them my Jim Davis Garfield collection where he created the word "Garfield" every Sunday in a different heading. I also have a collection of different ways of lettering from various books and I show them the following books: The Hidden Alphabet and The Z was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg.
we then talk about the art elements: line, shape, color, texture, and value
later we talk more about specific colors: click here to see great half warm/half cool pictures!
and while some students are finishing the individual element compositions, others beginning a combination composition (see below)
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