IB 12 Art

This is a series done by an IB 12 student that started with a scribble and evolved into some larger pen drawings and is now evolving into large watercolour paintings.

Pen and Ink Doodles

This pen & ink drawing project is really doodles on steroids!  I made some worksheets with various patterns for the students to work from so they could practice prior to beginning their large pen & ink doodle.  Many of the students have found this type of drawing to be quite addictive. The images below are just a few that have finished a little early and I let the students choose their own subject matter - faces, initials, organic shapes, dragons, birds, butterflies etc..  A few students took the doodle project in a slightly different direction which was fine by me.  The last three are by special needs students.

BOOKMARKS

 The grade 10's were to develop an image that represented a story or fairytale that was familiar to them.  It was challenging for them to not represent just one scene but many of the different characters, scenery, architecture, clothing, animals etc. that was associated with their story.  In addition, they were to arrange all of these narrative elements in a very narrow pictorial space in a non-linear manner.  The finished drawings were about 10" x 26".  If you are noticing the line 3/4's of the way down it's because these are photocopies of the originals and they had to be photocopied twice and taped together because the originals were longer than the photocopier paper.

LESS IS MORE

After selecting an image of an animal of their choice, the grade 11's start out with a detailed pencil drawing that emphasizes texture, proportion and tonal values.  This allows them to become very familiar with their subject and from this point are able to create three different pen & ink abstract drawings of the same subject. Picasso's bull series was the inspiration for this project.