Monday, August 10, 2009

Ringtail Lemur

This design is a drawing of a ringtail lemur that I will have my students do tomorrow. The first drawing is going to be shared with a kindergarten class (however, depending on how it goes, I probably not have them draw as much detail). The second drawing will be shared with 1st and 2nd graders. Though construction lines are a challenging concept for 1st and 2nd graders, I will see how they can handle it. As always, no pressure is put on students to get it "right". Should be fun.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Illustration Friday: "Modify"

Barely had time to do this week's illustration. Seems to be the way it is lately.
Nowadays, it is hard to know how much of our food is modified, or how much it has been modified. I am not sure how much modification I am comfortable with, but it seems that more natural processes could be used to grow our food, and in the case of organic foods, less expensive.
This piece was done with pen/ink and color pencil.
Note: Due to copyright infringement (knowingly and unknowingly), I am putting a "watermark" of sorts on my art work from now on. I don't like viewing art with these types of visual distractions, but I feel I need to protect my work, or at least make a person work a little bit to use my art without permission. If anyone would like to use my art just let me know and I will be happy to see how we can make it happen.