Class description: Students continue their world tour, this time visiting Africa, Australia, and South America to search out their most beautiful animals. We’ll spend time in the rainforest with frogs and toucans, the African savanna with giraffes and zebras, and on top of a eucalyptus tree with a koala bear. Lessons will be guided drawing and painting techniques of animals in their natural habitat using both acrylic and watercolor paints.
Our first stop on our Animal World Tour was the South American Rainforest where we learned a bit about the Poison Dart Frog and worked on our Frog pencil sketches. Students were surprised to learn the Poison Dart Frogs are VERY small and I brought out a nickel coin to show them their actual size!
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Poison Dart Frog found in the
tropical rainforest |
Drawing our Poison Dart Frog proved more challenging than I expected but so many students rose to the occasion and did a fantastic frog! There were a few beginning young artists who were a bit more challenged by the task of drawing the frog and I decided to help them with an outline sketch to guide them with proportions and balance of the frog’s body.
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While in the rainforest we also painted the Toucan, which was a fun and colorful experience for all of the young artists in class. The long and colorful beak was the most fun AND the most challenging to draw, but they came out great after a few practice pencil sketches.
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| Watercolor Toucan - work in progress- first layer |
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| Watercolor Toucans - works in progress- first layer |
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| Toucan found in the tropical rainforest |
MORE TOUCAN WORKS IN PROGRESS
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Starting our drawing lesson on the giraffe….
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My lesson sketch
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| A great giraffe sketch! |
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| Lovely giraffe pattern which is challenging to do! |
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Excellent sketchbook notes!
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