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Here we go again, meet my next new batch of 7 th graders. Lookin ' real good I have to say, with loads of artistic talent within the mix. ...

Learn how to draw a colorful dragonfly with pen and ink stippling in this step by step lesson and tutorial. Create several practice sketches and learn how to use stippling to create a variety of textures.

Artists use several mediums to complete a work of art, but one or two tend to become the preferred method. Stippling is a technique that incorporates several circles or small dots of the same color to create a composition. These points can be drawn, painted, or etched onto a surface using a variety of media. The dotted dots are joined to create a recognizable image. The closer you get to the image, the more you can select individual points. As you zoom out, you may not be able to...

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Analyzing shades of 4 basic shapes

Graphite drawing pencils are essential drawing tools because they have a variety of grades and work well in all styles of drawing. This handy chart is a guide f

The idea was to some up with a creative way of creating a scale with 11 values from black to white and everything in between. The human eye can only see 44 different values in between black and white. Apparently the most a person has ever created without using a computer is 12. Here are 11.

VALUE SCALES INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED 2-D ART graphite on Bristol board This is a refresher assignment for my 2nd and 3rd year drawing students, at the beginning of the year, to loosen them up and get them back in that right brain zone. For my Intermediate kids, they were required to draw a 10 step value scale, and my 2 Advanced boys had to do a 15 step scale. Extremely difficult! So let's start with the Intermediate group. Senior Katherine Ku gives us this really cool atmospheric treeline...

I'm very tardy in posting these. It was a review assignment in graphite, done during the first week of school by my Intermediate and Advanced 2-D students, the Advanced kids having to do a 13 step value scale and the Intermediate kids doing a 10 step value scale. The lovely piece above was made by senior Shirley Sun (2nd year), and the 2 beauties below were completed by junior Jaimee Chirico (3rd year) and sophomore Hannah Park (2nd year).