Cross Contour Animals

Cross contour animals are a great way to introduce volume to middle school students. After a lesson on contour line, we discussed how cross contour lines convey volume. Students selected an animal they wanted to draw. After drawing was complete, cross contours were applied with sharpie. The backgrounds are done in a student generated pattern colored in prismacolor. Shout out to Ms. Power for coming up with this awesome lesson.

7th grade owl drawings

I gave students 4 pictures of owls printed on a single sheet of paper in black and white. We made 3x3 inch view finders with construction paper and cropped in to one view of an owl eye. They made 3 thumbnail sketches and the students chose their favorite one. Drawing were scaled up on 9X9 brown bogus paper and shaded with black and white colored pencil and a pop of eye color.

Mechanical Animals inspired by the movie Hugo

Due to one teacher being out sick a few weeks ago, we ended up starting the movie Hugo. Turns out, it's an amazing movie packed full of themes and history. We used the movie as a spring board for these steampunk inspired projects.