It is a joy to watch his enthusiasm as he immerses himself in his work. He has no fear. He draws with gusto and abandon. It is so inspiring to observe.
He is all of 7 years old. I think those artist, like Picasso and Basquiat, when they talk about children's art, must of been privy to spending time with a child just like this one.
He asked to work on drawing boats in class. I pulled off a few worksheets for him to study on boat drawing and then offered him some suggestions on how to draw a boat.
(not that he really needed it)
He studied and studied the worksheets and then just went for it. His first boat he created in charcoal.
7 year old, charcoal
Lovely, yes?
So building off the one point perspective from the week before, I introduced the importance of background, middle ground, and foreground in a composition. Building upon his desire to practice boat drawing, he created a composition with a boat in charcoal.
7 year old, charcoal
He was quite excited about his silhouette of the fisherman too. He did several of these practice drawings, working out different things. You can see here that he reworked his dock using the one point perspective exercise from the week before.
After several of these, he decided to pick up the pen and ink and create one last boat.
7 year old, pen and ink
A combination of everything he had worked on in the hour, it is a lovely little piece I promised to mount for him.
I am loving the organic nature of evolution in the Friday drawing class. I think the kids are really enjoying it too. A whole lot of different drawing tools out for their choosing and the opportunity to just problem solve with newsprint and charcoal if they want.
The other student did some work on creating a landscape composition in charcoal but then wanted to work on shadowing towards the end of class with a pear.
She started with charcoal, then art stix, and then pen and ink. I encouraged her to keep things quite loose.
8 year old
Next week she is quite excited to bring her American Girl doll to sketch. It should be quite fun.
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