Art with Ms. Abma

Thanks for welcoming me to Willow Park. It was nice to get to know you and I miss our classes together.  Mrs. Pedersen is back, so please see her art blog:  https://willowparkvisualart.blogspot.com/   Share your work or check out what your friends are making here:    https://willowparkfa.blogspot.com/      

Interactive Drawing Today's challenge is to make a drawing or series of drawings that interact with a real-life object. Look at some of the artists highlighted here and the following video. All you need is a paper, pencil, and a few objects. You can add colour or ink if you want to.  Take a look around and grab several things you can use. School supplies or food can be interesting shapes to start from. Place it on the page and see what kinds of ideas come to mind. It might take a few drawings to warm up and get some good ideas going. Victor Nunes always fills a whole page with ideas that come from using one object. Keep drawing and see which ones are the most successful.   Alex Solis Victor Nunes Marta Altes Here are some examples to get you started:   Take pictures of your work and send them to me at: htabma@educbe.ca

Hello everybody,  I hope you are all well. Lots of people are keeping busy during the lockdown by trying their hand at baking, I know I have. Have you been baking at all?  This week let's take a look at artist Wayne Thiebaud's still life paintings, you might notice a common theme. Wayne Thiebaud paints a lot of sweet treats! This week your challenge is to use a treat as the subject of a still life. It's your choice for what media you want to use - pastels, watercolor, acrylic, torn paper, crayon, sidewalk chalk, pencil, etc! Work from  real life ! Set up the food on the table where you can work.  Try putting it up on a stand by stacking some books until its at eye level. This can give a "right in front of you"  point of view  instead of looking down at it.  Sketch it out first. Do a quick, light drawing to get the main shapes on the page, then refine by adding detail. His  compositions are simple and strong. Some a