Human skeleton

 4th, 5th and 6th grade focused on the Human skeleton, body proportions, skulls and new approaches to portraiture. Here are some of their art influences for the session. 

The human skeleton consists of 206 bones. We are actually born with more bones (about 300), but many fuse together as a child grows up. These bones support your body and allow you to move. Bones contain a lot of calcium (an element found in milk, broccoli, and other foods). Bones manufacture blood cells and store important minerals. 

The longest bone in our bodies is the femur (thigh bone). The smallest bone is the stirrup bone inside the ear. Each hand has 26 bones in it. Your nose and ears are not made of bone; they are made of cartilage, a flexible substance that is not as hard as bone. 

Joints: Bones are connected to other bones at joints. There are many different types of joints, including: fixed joints (such as in the skull, which consists of many bones), hinged joints (such as in the fingers and toes), and ball-and-socket joints (such as the shoulders and hips). 

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Jean-Michel Basquiat at work 

Learning to draw a basic human face

 Learning to draw a realistic human face.

This is one of the more challenging subjects for most beginning artists.  

Here are some helpful guides as you practice, practice and practice.

blocking out the details and drawing light 

What emotion or feel(s) is your face showing ?

Now you can add the facial features 

Faces to inspire your next drawing! 

Fifth Grade Observe/Imagine 2018-19

1/2/3 +Starry Night inspired Cityscape- Building a Dramatic sky inspired by Turner and Van Gogh, using crayon, watercolor and sea salt. City silhouette images were added with cut paper collage and embellished with white and metallic gel pen. Inspired by images of famous Architectural sites around the world.

4 Imaginary galaxy snapshots: chalk pastels, tracing circles to create planet like shapes and using shading to build a 3-D effect.

5 Human Face: The art of portraiture, Line and design work sheets and introduction to basic face drawing skills 

6-9 -3+Royal Dogs- What is a royal portrait? Brief overview of court portrait painting. Humorous approach to portraiture, using printed support materials of both cartoon and realistic dogs, students developed their own imagery using pencil, sharpie, gel pen, color pencil, crayon and water color. Design and decorate a frame.

10+Event project- I dream the Universe- Acrylic paint, glitter paper, embellishments and clay are all part of this mixed media art piece. Set against a collage of green leaves the lone figure is deep in thought, star dust and star light together in one moment and it is truly magical! Composition and parts built/constructed by students.

collage and painting details

11/12+3-D this is me! Cartoon inspired self-portrait using modeling clay, Pop art, animation. Exploring new materials, humor, emotion, storytelling.  Stop motion films and the classic Mr. Bill.