by Dennas Davis | Feb 13, 2019 | Lessons > Grades 3 - 5, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW This week is the beginning of our winter anatomy lessons on the parts of the face. Students will sculpt a human eye as they follow along with a video. They’ll learn to draw accurate eyes by understanding the form and structure of the eyeball and the skin...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 31, 2019 | Pocket Pointers
Proportions are one of those things that “we know that we know”, but we can’t easily explain what it means to someone who doesn’t. Here is a great way to explain it to young students, along with some visuals you can show to help them understand. Older students also...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 28, 2019 | Samples, Video Demos
How-To Video This 4-minute video walks you through a lesson plan from top to...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 24, 2019 | Pocket Pointers
The key to making guidelines is drawing lightly; very lightly. Young artists will erase and erase to get things “right”, but they also often draw with a heavy line. The erased marks cause the paper or canvas to look dirty, and the inaccurate lines are so noticeable...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 23, 2019 | Pocket Pointers
Everyone knows you want a set of markers with as many colors as you can afford. The same goes for crayons, colored pencils, pastels… anything that comes in sets. But for some odd reason, students always think they should only get out one tube of paint on their palette...
