A warm up exercise!
Created with the humblest of art supplies, Crayola markers and a piece of acetate.
Each teen had picked a reference photo they were considering using for the acrylic painting. They put this photograph under the acetate and then drew the elements they were thinking of including in their painting onto the acetate with the markers.
We had talked a lot about how artist are always making decisions about what to put in and take out of their paintings. What to simplify, what the focus should be and how to move things around to create an interesting composition.
This quick exercise gave each of them a chance to begin making some of those decisions without getting bogged down in getting things "just right" in a sketch.
As they were drawing with the markers onto the plastic, and any old plastic will do for this project, there was some concern that it wasn't working as the ink just kind of balled up on the surface. It was hard to convince the artist that it was OK the marker wasn't covering the surface as expected but since it was a warm up exercise there wasn't too much stressing and they continued forward.
I then gave them a piece of damp paper and they turned their ink drawing face down onto the paper and rubbed.
When they pulled the acetate up, they were all pleasantly surprised with the results.
I was too.
I thought they were so stunning that I matted all of them for the teens to take home.
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