OiLS

So in classical conversations, one of our art lessons is on OiLS.  Not the oil pastel kind, the drawing component kind!  This was awesome to me when I first learned about this.  You really can break down everything you draw to those 5 components.  Here is a quick cheat sheet to learning them:
click HERE to download them.

I had a cute fun little practice lesson with my kids before CC starts and it was so much fun!  I can't wait to teach a whole class of these little guys and watch them draw!

So for the first part of our 30 min segment we introduced the sheet above, the OiLS and let them practice them for about 3 minutes.  Then I did some board drawings, instructing them to follow along.  Here they are:

 

The cute little mouse I learned on a facebook page : ART FOR KIDS, The Alligator I got from an ED Emberly book.

The kids had fun Here are theirs, I really wish I would have had them use black marker, it would have looked so much better.  So in our actual class that's what we will do:

 

Then we did a final project as I instructed them in a clown fish: