day fun

no pics today again, although it was a gorgeous day. after 9 hours at the school pretty much without stopping, I was too tired to lift the camera, let alone push the shutter button.

it was a good day. there is a lot of intelligence lurking behind the eyes of my students. I like them. I had only one issue of behaviour in the day, but i have a feeling he won't be at the school very long. I mean, if you act up on the first day of school, draw naked ladies when you're supposed to draw your shoe, make an enormous pile of charcoal dust, and then mouth off, I guess you probably aren't much interested in learning from your teachers.

so the art class update: as you probably guessed, we did draw our shoes today. i had them use charcoal sticks instead of pencils because pencils are boring - you use them everyday. it was a great success, aside from my amateur pornographer. (do you call it porn if it's cartoonish?) I'm really impressed with the base art skills of a number of my students. Some of their sketches were really really good.

tomorrow we're going to do gesture drawings I think. it might be too small a thing to do for a whole period, but I want to keep things light. we're going to do a game thing where they have to do gesture drawings in teams of three... one person makes the pose, one sketches it, a third person has to try to mimic the original gesture. I dunno... maybe I'll change it before tomorrow morning. flexibility is everything.