This was a wonderful drawing lesson my second practicum student taught to a mixed class of Grade 7-9 students last month. It was well received among students and yielded a high success rate! I believe she found the inspo for the project HERE (via Pinterest). After her demonstration and explanation of positive and negative space, students looked up an image of a houseplant (some chose flowers) online. They drew a contour line drawing (no shading) of this on 8 x 11" cardstock. Once drawn, they…

Scientific advice on how to best place visual objects together.

Every week, we pick our favourite album artwork from recent releases. This week, we look at The Jezabels' recent album 'The Brink'.

Note- this exercise is severely out of sequence in the assignment; despite being a trained horticulturalist my ability to kill pot plants is legendary, so having found the perfect specimen I really needed to seize the moment. On another note, my main camera has died and the photos here are taken on my back-up compact camera, apologies for the inferior quality. Amid the instructions for this exercise was this rider: "you may need to add enough lines to make the image readable to the viewer"…

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Negative space illustration