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One-Time Box with supplies and four on-demand lesson videos
This is a stand alone unit and is not part of the Kids' Art Tour Membership.
Buckle up buckaroos because you’re about to be kidnapped, hunted, and possibly marooned. But you’ll also win some battles, lead the charge, serve your country and search for treasure.
N.C. Wyeth illustrated some of the most iconic stories of all time transforming black and white text into dynamic images that can be felt. During these lessons we’ll analyze Wyeth’s brilliant work and apply them to your own illustrations while reading some exciting stories along the way.
This beautifully designed and packaged box contains art supplies, a notebook with handouts for 4 lessons, and access to four 75 minute lesson videos.
Inside this box:
- Handouts - Just slide these behind the previous unit in your notebook and you’re all set!
- Sketchpad - time to work on your drawing skills
- Pencil - Make your mark!
- Eraser - Because mistakes are welcome.
- Posable Figure - Your new little friend will help you create exciting characters.
- Tracing paper - Get your drawing juuust right.
- Transfer paper - Puts your final drawing onto the watercolor paper. How magical.
- Painting paper -For your final illustrations.
- Clipboard - Buddy up with your painting paper and now it’s an art board. More art magic.
- Blue Tape - Use this to attach your painting paper to your art board and make a nice border too.
- Paint Tray - Because reasons.
- White Sponge - Your brilliant paper towel replacement. Just add water!
- Tempera Paint - It’s getting serious now
- Lesson summary - to make your homeschool reports easier.
Art Tour Details:
Lesson One:
- Introduction to N.C. Wyeth's ancestry and their involvement in America's history, his philosophy on illustration.
- Discussion on adding dynamic figures to their illustrations.
- Students enjoy looking closely at some of Wyeth's work while reading some passages from the books that match the illustrations.
- Instruction on drawing from life is given and demonstrated during class
- Students practice drawing characters from life using their new posable figure.
- Students choose between 8 scenes in classic books for a scene they will illustrate during these four lessons.
Lesson Two:
- Introduction to the Brandywine School of Art and illustrators
- Students will learn how they can guide the eye of their viewer by using line, light, contrast and more.
- Observe how Wyeth used all of these methods to guide his viewers in his "Roaring Skipper" painting and several others.
- Students will have time for more sketching and to work on their illustration.
- Students learn how to use tracing paper to perfect their illustration
Lesson Three:
- Dynamic lighting is the focus of this lesson as students observe how Wyeth used this technique to make interesting and immersive paintings.
- Students will use transfer paper to move their drawing from tracing paper to painting board.
- Instruction for setting up their painting board with painting paper and tape to create a border.
Lesson Four:
- Wyeth's paintings will be looked at again and now will be analyzed for all the methods that N.C. Wyeth used: dynamic figures, lighting and how he guided the eye in each of his paintings.
- Introduction to Wyeth's exciting end papers and why they were limited in color
- Students will be encouraged to try out painting endpapers with a limited palette of colors and will have time to finish painting their illustration.
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