May 4th

Continuing with our brainstorms, today is the last day for sketching. Monday we will begin on the final paper. Feel free to work on this at home so you are completely satisfied with your design. Today we will take a look at more examples, why do we like them?

Another fun example, yes you can cut construction paper out for your poster!

From April 8, 2012

May 3rd

Lets compare more posters, why are we drawn to the images that we are drawn to? Is it its simplicity, complexity, color choice, negative space, recognizable imagery etc...? Today we will be completing six more sketches before the final paper, take a look.

May 2nd

Congratulations on finishing the contour animal paintings, they turned out fantastic!

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Today we will begin our new project. Hopefully all of you brought your homework in today! If you were absent and did not check the blog I can print off song lyrics for you, so don't stress if you forgot your homework. Click here for the project explanation.

My poster idea, watercolor over the tape. The tape will protect the paper from the watercolor.

From April 8, 2012

Then, carefully removing the tape, now I am ready to outline in ink:

From April 8, 2012

May 1st

Today is the last day to finish our paintings in class. If you did not get yours finished it is now homework. Our warm up today ties into our short project we will begin tomorrow.

For those who are done early I will give you instructions for the next project.

April 30th

Today we will jump back into out painting contour project. Today I will demo shading the background.