Designing dragons

Kindergartener Maggie

Avery and Angela

OK...NOT a dragon!  Antony finished his graphite drawing after completing his dragon.

Joseph used an online game for inspiration

Erica invented some new colors in those spikes!

Poway class

New students working on pattern and design:

Natasha

Laleinah and Lauren

Funky owls, etc.

All-Star Academy artists created their versions of funky owls, continuing the theme of pattern and design on which we've been working.  One older student worked on value and shading, drawing a horse.  Ones that finished early created colorfully patterned camels.

Jacob's owl

Carolyn

Erica

Avery

Joseph

Antony

All-Star Academy classes starting back up

After a break for the holidays, my class at All-Star Academy started back up today.  The younger kids drew a simple dragon fly design in either markers or colored pencils.  My 5th grader worked on creating values, drawing a bat with pencil.

Britney

Jacob

Angela

Antoni

Erica

Angela

Prismacolor Birds

Our last project for this session was a colored pencil design of colorful birds inspired by the designer Laurel Burch.

Some of them didn't get finished.  I was dismayed to hear that many of these talented kids don't have colored pencils or oil pastels at home. I encouraged them to ask their parents for PRISMACOLORS for Christmas.  They are expensive, but if taken care of will give them many years of use - super handy for school projects!  Crayola makes an affordable alternative. 

Iris

Angela

Erica and Melody

Antony

Noah

Ella

Mason

Madie

Lu

May

Citlali

Spooky times in Poway!

Just in time for Halloween, my Poway students drew haunted houses and creepy creatures onto their watercolored backgrounds.

Noah

Elena

Ashi

Mason

Ella

Madie

Bella

 

Lu

Wooooo....Haunted Houses!!

Today my students at All-Star Academy drew haunted houses onto watercolored sunsets that they had prepared last week.  Then they 'spookiefied'  their drawings by adding ghosts, bats, witches, dancing skeletons, etc!

Close-up of Antony's haunted drawing

Iris

Angela

Mihika

Iris

Britney

Antony

Melody

Erica

Britney

Fall classes at All-Star Academy

We started off this session with a drawing inspired by a hand sewn camel from India.  It is so simple to draw which made it easy for them to concentrate on creating patterns which was our objective. Some of these kids are just in Kindergarten.  They did an awesome job!!

Antony and Melody

Brittney

Erica

Ewan

Aaron

Angela, Iris and Mihika

Howie

Antony

Melody

Erica

Brittney