Charcoal

Welcome to Smart With Art's Spring Session:  Back to the Drawing Board.
We have a wonderful group of artists and an exciting new curriculum for this session.

Today we learned about drawing with charcoal.

 Charcoal drawings remain an essential skill for budding artists. Working with
charcoal serves the dual purpose of building artistic creation skills and
developing art appreciation skills.
We worked with vine charcoal and used gum erasers and blending stumps to
create a still life.

 We learned the properties of charcoal and how to work with this material.
We discovered that erasing charcoal creates light areas; smudging charcoal
creates value; and drawing lightly with charcoal creates contour lines.

 We also discussed overlapping shapes, and where it exists in a still life set up

Students practiced on newsprint and then did a final still life on white charcoal paper.   Final projects are being sprayed with a fixative and then will be mounted on black paper.   We will post pictures of the final pieces after they have been matted.


Next week, students will learn about drawing landscapes and they will use chalk pastels.
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