Lesson Background:
There are loads of versions of these dragon eyes on art blogs and Pinterest, and I have been dying to try them with the kids at school! After much consideration I decided to go for an oil pastel version with a focus on using light and shadow.
Lesson Materials:
Pictures of dragon eyes off Google and samples of dragon eye artworks using different art media
Oil pastels
lead pencils
trimmed A3 white art paper
Lesson Steps:
1. We looked at images of dragon eyes and artworks. We talked about the shapes, colours and textures.
2. The students followed along with a lead pencil, drawing as I did each part of the eye step-by-step. I gave many opportunities for the students to make theirs unique by suggesting things like: You may want to add some horns like this here, you may want to make these scales small like this or larger like this... You may want to change the shape of the pupil like this or this...
3. Next I demonstrated how to fill the drawings in with oil pastel thickly and with no white gapes. We then re-looked at the colour wheel and talked about how to use tints, shades and different colours to show light and shadow, and to create a more realistic dragon eye.
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| By David |
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