As this school term comes to a close and the holidays fast approach, many students are on the final stages of decorating their ceramic bowl painting projects. The idea is that they might use them as gifts once they are sealed with a protective coating.
Simple but pleasing cartoon design.
Applying some finishing decorative touches.
Starting the base coat on a new bowl.
Coloring a pre-drawn outline.
Skull bowl.
Adding some paint decorations.
Can't go wrong with a flaming skull design.
Fellow instructor and student adding some decorations with
Caran D'Ache Neocolor I wax crayons.
Carp design in Ying & Yang pattern.
Painting her pre-drawn coloring outline.
Holiday kitty bowl.
Combining glitter and fresh acrylic paint drips.
These students took their bowls outside to apply the acrylic paint splatter a bit more freely.
While it might have seemed like a good idea at the time, it took quite a bit of elbow grease and water to clean up the surrounding area afterward.
This bowl was overworked a bit too much for my taste. The latter broad paint applications seem to take away some of the character from the earlier splatter pattern.
Some students decorated both the exterior and interior sides of their bowls.
Bowl interior view.
Some fanciful ink drips and splatter.
With light glitter application.
This students made good use of the glitter shaker.
This one in particularly turned out quite nicely.
Finished bowls drying. All that remains is to give them a protective varnish coating.
WIP bowls with their first base coat drying.
While it can be a tad messy and labor intensive with the clean up at the end of the day, this
bowl painting activity has proven quite popular and fun with the majority of the students participating in the after school program.
Found that the holidays presented a lot of opportunities to get some caricature drawing practice done and to share some of my core sketching kits and newly acquired drawing tools with the kids.
Having an adult hold the baby improves the chances of capturing a likeness when drawing very young kids.
Stephanie was quite happy with her caricature.
Manga-style caricature of Uncle Roque drawn with a 5.6 mm Cretacolor Nero lead.
Since Cuti just returned from an African safari.
Caro being so fond of the Assassins Brotherhood games made the theme easy.
Camila coloring the back cover of her Moche Notebook.
Getting some drawing practice before midnight.
Clipboards allowed drawing and coloring activities almost anywhere.
The girls did a couple of colored drawings with Faber Castell Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils.
Doodling with my new Pilot Croquis 6B leadholder.
Camila's juggling clown drawing.
Sketching some coloring outlines.
Coloring with Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils used dry.
The kids managed to create quite a few drawings during the holiday gatherings.
Santa and Elf drawings done by Nicole as she followed my step-by-step demo.
Boris also got into the drawing activities with his gator and dinosaur battle entries.
Remember to always bring your art supplies to family gatherings, so the kids can get a chance to try some new sketching and drawing tools and get some drawing practice in a pressure-free fun environment.
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