Finished still life sketches

The students worked hard for most of the day finishing the sketches.
We talked about how dark lines highlighted depth and shadows. And how dark shading makes the foreground more prominent.

As the students saw their artwork taking shape and looking good they really concentrated on getting the shapes and angles right. The work we have done on perspective became a tool they used to get the weaving look like it was going around the flower or basket and shells on the right angle. The classroom was very quiet for most of the day as the students became absorbed in their work.

Next teaching strategy will be in increasing the variation of sketching techniques.
By regularly doing observational sketching, either long enough to finish a sketch or a series of quick sketches, the students are looking more closely at the relationship between objects, shadows and light. They are wanting to make the objects look 3 dimensional.

The standard of these finished sketches have far exceeded my expectations.