What's Going on in the Classroom: Pen and Ink

I believe this project is pretty run of the mill for a foundations course, but I wanted to share the work my students accomplished. They took the skills they had learned in graphite and charcoal and ran with them in pen and ink. I also had a couple of them talk me into letting them use color in the background (or negative space) which I think was an excellent addition! I limited their reference pictures to animals, plants, or insects and of course we used copy-right free images, but other than that anything was fair game. I do have to admit that I think most of them will be happy to move on to metals and three-dimensional art work for awhile! We need a break from drawing!

What's Going on in the Classroom: Darkroom Developing

I have spent a lot of my recent posts, talking about the projects we're working on in the foundations class that I teach. Today I wanted to show some images of the first film prints my Photo 1 students have developed. This was their first experience in the darkroom alone. Some turned out great and some have room to improve, but over all I think they did well. Check out some of their photographs:

We started of making contact sheets, like mini thumbnails of our work.

Some great images for the first time around. Also an update. Since we finished charcoal in the foundations class, we have moved on to pen and ink. Everyone loves stippling! Not! Here are the technique sheets we worked on today.