Teaching Treasures™

A student's view of a veranda looking into a room.

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Materials needed:

• pencils 2B(light) 4B(dark) 6B(darker) and 8B(darkest)
• eraser and ruler
• cartridge paper

What to do:

• Choose a still life object to draw outside. This can be a building, a chimney on a roof, a street scene or you can sit on a veranda and draw the veranda, see example above.
• Using cartridge paper, start with a 2B pencil which will make nice light lines.
• Once you have the basic lines on paper start filling in detail with a 4B pencil, continue shading darker areas with 6B and 8B pencils for the darkest shadows.
• Make sure you give your drawing a 3D effect, draw in perspective.... back