TEEN STUDIO CLASS SUMMER AT SPRUILL 2006

Value drawing

First we learned all about value, shape, then form...

Ali's still life drawing from observation. She drew from what she saw with white charcoal pencil on black paper.

Still life set ups
from which many drawings were made. .













KIMBERLY is a rising junior in high school. She is in the class to supplement her art courses and to help prepare her portfolio for application to art college.
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DRAWING AND PAINTING STUDIO .....
IN THIS STUDIO CLASS EACH STUDENT STUDIES THE PRINCIPLES AND ELEMENTS OF ART AS THEY RELATE TO:

1. LANDSCAPES,
2. SEASCAPES
3. FIGURATIVE WORK INCLUDING SELF PORTRAITURE
4. STILL LIFE
5. IMAGINATIVE ARTWORK,

BUT IN THE END, IT IS THE STUDENT WHO CHOOSES THE SUBJECT OF HIS/HER PROJECT FOR THE EIGHT WEEKS..

CHILDREN'S CLASS 8-11 YEAR OLD/ SUMMER AT SPRUILL 2006

Observational Self Portrait Painting










Value Scale-Light to Dark

Children learn to draw what they see, if adults in authority will accept what they draw as valid for their stage of development. I teach each child to accept a critique (corrective instruction). I critique their work as they continue to "look" at the objects they are trying to draw. As a child's brain grows and their eyes are taught to become more observant, their fine motor skills will be able to carry out the instructions from the brain to render an increasingly more mature drawing. No child can skip over physical and emotional development in spite of exceptional intelligence.

Parents and teachers are so important and play a big role in nurturing that sense of "I can do" and patiently waiting as the child "problem solves" and creates artwork using the cretive process.

DRAWING FROM OBSERVATION....WHAT YOU SEEEEEEE!

MS. MARCIA EISWORTH, ARTIST WHOSE MEDIA IS PAINTING AND DRAWING/MIXED MEDIA

This is my studio/home where I live, paint, love my grandchildren, and my cat, Mulan.

CONTACT SPRUILL CENTER FOR MS. MARCIA EISWORTH'S TEEN/PRE-TEEN CLASSES

MS. MARCIA EISWORTH TEACHES ART CLASSSES AT SPRUILL CENTER, INCLUDING FALL 2006.

• PAINTING, DRAWING FOR TEENS 12-17 YEAR OLD STUDENTS
• ENCAUSTIC PAINTING/COLLAGE 12-17 YEAR OLD STUDENTS
• PAINTING, DRAWING FOR PRE-TEENS 8-11 YEAR OLD STUDENTS

see SPRUILL CENTER'S WEBSITE AND CATALOG OF FALL CLASSES. 770-394-3447

ENCAUSTIC PAINTING AND COLLAGE.

THE PROCESS OF ENCAUSTIC PAINTING AND COLLAGE:
1)Tools, hot gun, encaustic iron 2) Wax/Oil Pigment blocks 3) Tools, tape, scrapers from
oil paint, etc. and or reg. oil paints in tubes, items from the kitchen or garage sales....all used to
work the surface, to scrape, to make texture.










4)Cheap hardware store brushes 5)Warming tray/Cheap pot 6)Baby Crock pot to keep
brushes (all purchased fromTarget or Walmart, etc.) Wax mixture melted at an
expressly even temperature for wax work

6)Packages of Beeswax with resins (For students, I use pure bees wax, mixed with soy candle wax (from a craft store), and walnut oil medium for a binder and drier. This is safe so that we do not need a ventilation system. Ahhhhh, school teachers and momma's...we are sooooo adaptable!!!
NOW FOR KEITH'S IMAGERY:


After working in Encaustic using my own guile and skill, I took a teachers' workshop at the New Orleans Center for Creative Art (Louisiana's State Visual and Performing Arts High School) Summer 2005 (one month before Katrina hit)

My Imagery:

MATERIALS (Encaustic wax, oil paint, paper sewing envelope pattern pieces, heavy fiber architecture model board paper)
1) 2)3)

IN MS. MARCIA'S CLASSES, HER STUDENTS, NEED NOT FEAR THAT THE CLASS WILL BE TOO DIFFICULT. WE LEARN STEP BY STEP. IT IS SAFE AND FUN! LOOK AT THE THE PHOTOS TO GET AN IDEA. MS. MARCIA GUIDES, AS SHE WORKS ON HER OWN ENCAUSTIC WORK WITH YOU.

EXAMPLES OF MARCIA EISWORTH'S ARTWORK USING ENCAUSTIC