Teaching Treasures™

 

©Copyright 2000 Teaching Treasures Publications Materials needed:

• A3 paper
• charcoal
• 2B and 8B pencil
• spotlight or lamp
• apples or pears, shells, towels or sheets, cut open tomatoes, lettuce or cabbage.

What to do:

• Set up a display with the apples or pears and the cut open fruits and vegetables.
• place the sheets or towels on the table and add the fruit on top.
• Put a spotlight above the display.
• Start the drawing by using the 2B pencil, do a light sketch first to get everything in place on your page. You don't have to draw the whole display you can just sketch one part of it.
• When you've finished your sketch with the light pencil you can use darker pencils or charcoal for the shading and detail.
• When you have finished the display drawing, try drawing one object like a shell or the cut open tomato as shown at the top of this page ... back