Kindergarten
Learning How to Use your Shapes and Lines within a drawing!
Follow this video. You will be using all of the lines and shapes that you have been practicing in art. When you are finished with your drawing, I challenge you to add MORE details, to make this house your very own. Then, we are going to color it using colored pencils. Try to make some visual texture with your colored pencils, use lots of different colors together to make it look even more realistic. And, don't forget to fill in all of your "worm holes!"
Rulers and Colored Pencils
1. First practice using a ruler to make a straight line.
Place your ruler onto your paper, line up the "bottom" or the "top" of the ruler with the edge of your paper, first. This will ensure that the line that you are going to make is straight. Run your pencil along the ruler. One tip... have your child "push" their pencil against the ruler, instead of "pushing" down onto the paper. Make sure you are holding the ruler really tight, though. Practice making lines that go up and down (vertical) and some that go sideways (horizontal). See how they can cross, or overlap, each other?
2. Practice using your colored pencils
Try blending, cross hatching, coloring one way, and then another....
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You can use this image to practice your blending techniques on.
3. Make a color picture drawing....
Draw a Christmas tree ornament on a tree branch.
Use this video to help you. Just don't add the eyes.
*This will use the idea of drawing with shapes that we just finished. *After the ornament is drawn, you can add a hanger with your ruler. *Then add a pine branch. This doesn't need to be perfectly straight. Things made by nature are not straight. *Use your ruler to make a hanger that comes from the ornament and hooks onto the pine branch. |
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This video will help you... but you can replace the pine cones with your ornaments!!!
*Try coloring it with colored pencils. -Use your new techniques! |