Landscape Drawings Attempt No 1 {Virtual Fridge}

My first attempt at a landscape drawing.

Nathaniel's first attempt at a landscape drawing.

Nathaniel and I recently started a course is called Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration 101 which is presented by edX and is open for participants world wide.

This week we both attempted drawing a landscape.  We used a reference drawing the course provided.  It was an interesting experience for us both.

This weeks Feature

Our feature this week comes from over at A Mom's Quest to Teach, scroll down to the bottom half of the Mousetronaut post and you will find a step by step tutorial to create this lovely shuttle.

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Drawing Techniques {Virtual Fridge}

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"Drawing, properly taught, is the best way of developing intelligence and forming judgement, for one learns to see, and seeing is knowledge." (Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 1883: p.305)

I enrolled in a new drawing course which sounded really interesting and would help with learning to draw for Nature Journaling.  The course is called Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration 101 and is presented by edX and is open for participants world wide.  This course is FREE unless you would like a certification. I have been blown away by the content and highly recommend it.

Week one's homework asked us to invest in H and B pencils which prompted us to find out more about the numerical graphite scale.   I discovered that there is no industry standard so different brand pencils can have different intensities even though the scale numbers are the same, so if you like a pencil stick with that brand!

Crey pencils are actually a mixture of graphite and clay binder.  The H and B ranking systems denote the quantities of graphite and clay within a pencil which in turn affects the intensity of colour and hardness of the pencil.


This weeks Feature

This weeks feature is a tutorial from over at Imaginative Homeschool where you can see a step by step tutorial on creating summer and fall tree artwork using paint and q-tips.
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Happy 50th {Virtual Fridge}

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Happy Birthday to my Zookeeper husband Paul.  Wow 50!  When we first got married that felt like a life time away little did I know that in the blink of an eye we would be here.

Today I'd like to brag upon my sister who created this bespoke birthday cake for us.  Paul loves taking photographs, working with the serval at Werribee Zoo and his favourite bird is a Fairy Wren.  My sister from Deen's Cakes (please pop on over and like her page on Facebook) created this masterpiece for us and it has blessed everyone who has seen it.


Are you on INSTAGRAM ?  You can now use your IG account to link up an show us your art adventures.


This weeks Feature

In the Northern Hemisphere they are well and truly into autumn and enjoying some cooler weather.  Leigh over at Live Well Play Together has put together a great round up of posts to put some fall craft into your homeschool.

This weeks feature is a tutorial from over at Virtual Fridge co-host Our Unschooling Journey Through Life, it's a tutorial on using fire, ink and alcohol to create your masterpiece.  When I saw the word fire I just had to pop on over and take a look at this interesting art project.

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Learning Drawing Skills {Virtual Fridge}

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I've been pondering my inconsistency on here regarding the Virtual Fridge and have come to realise the value in accountable friendships.  For the last three years a friend and I used to meet together once a week and do music and craft together.  And that time was the most productive for producing an art or craft product weekly. As I was thinking about it I decided it was time we took out the Drawing Textbook and recommence our lessons.  This time I gave the booklet to Nathaniel and he did the drawing lesson on his own.  I'm quite thrilled with what he accomplished considering it's been a very long time since we did these exercises.

Drawing Textbook Lesson 13

Last week when looking over my blog for the unit studies we had done I stumbled upon some really lovely memories of art unit studies we did here upon the blog and this has inspired me to recommence some of these with Nathaniel.  This year's winter master piece at the NGV is not as inspiring as it has been in the past so I will need to blow the dust off some of our books for art inspiration.

Mondrian Inspired Art

• Claude Monet - Artist / Art
• Wayne Thiebaud - Artist / Art
• Piet Mondrian - Artist / Art

This weeks Feature

This weeks feature is a tutorial from over at My Pinterventures by Erlene she has a super easy step by step Sea Art Tutorial to follow.

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