Mr. Bob's Middle & High School Art Room: brush and ink wash

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Monday, September 19, 2016

High School Drawing assignments: Faces

In the process of developing drawing skills in addition to learning how to see and compose, We reviewed and learned basic picture taking skills (rules of thirds, cropping, angles, etc.). I sent my students outside to take photographs of each other for the project.

The drawing skills they were going to review/learn were color pencil techniques (along with color theory), rendering with a 6B pencil, and brush and ink.

The results are below.

1. Make a color wheel and demonstrate shading with color

2. Make value scale with pencil and render shapes.

Student work in progress.

Making different values with brush, ink, and water.

Final Projects

Quick teacher example.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Brush and Ink drawing High School

We ordered colored inks this year and thought we should learn how to use them. I showed my students different examples of techniques and let them experiment with styles to figure out a process that best suited them. They choose a technique by means of brush stokes as a form of expression. The project was strictly brush and ink. Students used a camera to take photos of their subject matter. Approx. side of projects 18" x 24"

Now for some shameless self-promotion. I've been writing and illustrating a book about the 80's Denver Punk Rock Scene that I was a part of. Below are a few illustrations using strictly brush and ink from the project. To see more, click here

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Recovered Images and more

I was smart enough to save images of my student's work prior to the disappearance of the posts mentioned earlier. So I thought I'd publish them again minus the learning objectives and as a bonus include a couple of projects done from the year before. Enjoy!