Grave Danger: Raven Base

After creating the first scene, Leo and Justin decided to make a more 'thought-out' story utilizing bloder mediums (water-soluable crayons rather than color pencils) to express the surroundings a little better.  The story is beginning to get a little more exciting as well.

Grave Danger: Battle of Alaska

This was the first scene that Leo and Justin were working together.  Their goal is to create enough scenes  to eventually make a book out of it. You'll see a sequence of different scenes they create together over the months. This scene is supposed to be horizontally connected together.

Leah's portrait study

Could you believe this portrait study was done by a 6 year old?
The first one was drawn with a pencil, and colored with color pencils. (I'll have to add that I did help her just a little bit on the lips, that's it!) And, I thought that it'll be great if we can expand on her skill using different mediums. She put her first drawing on the window, put another white sheet of paper over it, and traced the image. The second one was done by drawing the outline with glue, waited until it's fully dried, and colored with pastels. I told her, "For the third one, you can make it as colorful as you want it to be". And, that's what she did. She used water-soluble crayon to color, and used just water to brush all over. She had so much fun, and she became very confident in using different mediums.

Katherine's first Acrylic Painting

Here's the actual still life that I set up for Katherine. I had to buy the vegetables for three consecutive weeks (except for the onions) for her to see and paint although we did have pictures; the light and colors are different from the pictures. 

Here's the beautiful still life painting by Katherine. She understands light and dark; she knows what to bring out and what to diminish in the scene; and she looks at the objects in relation to the surroundings. Although this was her first attempt to use acrylics, it looks like she's been painting for years! I'm excited about her next project that she's working on; I'll make sure to post that too. Very proud of her work ethic.

Zomo the rabbit mask making

After reading a trickster tale from the Southwest America called 'Zomo the rabbit', we made a mask from a paper plate, cut out paper, and colored with markers. We also learned to be a little more cautious, and faster! ^^