25 Apr 2014 - Creative Expression

The niece wrapped up her observational drawing with a still life assignment. Instead of the usual fruit/etc objects, she chose a Minecraft figure, a cat figure, and a soda can... go figure! She did show she was paying attention (woot) for the stuff about shading.  I think she could have used more practice, but what can ya do. 

Spring break is over, so tonight we moved on to the next bullet point in the required curriculum: "Creative Expression." We went over some word association to get her thinking about how she might express emotions in shapes and colours and objects, and abstract expressionism which is a bit less rigorous, and something which all of my art teachers made me do which was LOOK IN THE MIRROR TO FIGURE OUT EXPRESSIONS. How else will one know what parts of faces do when their owners are feeling things?

(That sorta thing is also great for RP/writing... once you get past the oh god I'm so vain what is that ugly thing in the mirror bit and just look at the ways the lines go.)

In other news, it's snowing again, and I had to leave my car at the bottom of our street because the street was all jacked up and I'm a n00b that doesn't have chains or 4WD. What the actual hell is going on here? It's almost May.


(That's the back yard turned into a snowglobe by Google+.)

In other other news, I'm still looking through the Star Wars Encyclopedia for the "C" entry in my A to Z Twi'leks project. Any volunteers?