Drawing

 We began this term with an old faithful lesson. Drawing something from nature with a B pencil. 

I teach the kids that come to art, that any kind of B pencil is great to draw with. It is soft ad helps to create those darks and lights we use in art as we create value in our work 

 Value : is one of the 7  elements of art and we find it in all art works. It is the work of light in a photograph or the dark shading that produces the shadow in a drawing. Children are extraordinarily good at creating the extreme dark in a work and some grey lights

 I love these attempts at value.

 Look at the shadow in these works. 

 Noticing value in objects is a tricky thing to do and it is something that needs practice. It is not something we naturally look at when we observe the world around us, yet it is one of the very things that makes our world so interesting.