Drawing is so important to good art making! 

 We practice our drawing skills all the time, with different techniques and approaches.  For these two projects, we focused on the skills of proportion and observational drawing.  2nd grade artists learned the basics of portraiture as they created these great self portraits.  The loved discovering the measuring "tricks" of the human face!  Third grade artists used direct observation as they created these shoe drawings.  They worked hard on the details and learned to draw what their eyes told them, and the end product is pretty impressive for 8 and 9 year olds!