It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau Each fifth grade artist used one of his/her
own photographs taken on our photography field trip to the
beautiful Missouri Botanical Gardens to use as inspiration for a
drawing, ceramic sculpture, and painting. This is a rigorous
exercise in observation and perspective! It is also a wonderful
way to experiment in different mediums to discover new strengths
and work with challenges. For the drawing portion of this
project, students learned how to make a value chart and show
roundness of form using shading, highlights, and shadow with
special 2H-6B drawing pencils. They chose to render their full
photograph, a portion of the photograph, or to abstract the
photograph.