It’s time for Apples!
Apples are in season and they are great for beginning school
activities, particularly kindergarten and preschool classes. For art teachers the apple is a great beginning observational subject to
use. This art teacher would begin the
class reviewing the five kinds of lines- horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curvy,
and zigzag. I would explain how artists take the lines and combine them to make
drawings and shapes. I would then show them an apple and ask which line I would
use to draw the apple. What am I going to look at when I draw the apple? I will
be drawing the contour shape or the outside edge of the apple.
While holding the apple with my freehand I draw the apple
slowly on the white board or with my tablet and project for all to see.
Students should already have paper and pencils and apples
are then passed out. A 9x12 drawing paper could be folded two times, unfolded,
and students told to draw their apple with four different views (side 1, side
2, top, and bottom) in each rectangle. Try to fill up each rectangle with an
apple. Each apple is then colored. The
apples can be colored with crayons or oil pastels and the background painted
with a thin watercolor or tempera wash.
Older children can do a progressive drawing with the apple.
First drawing would be a whole apple, second an apple with one bite on one
side, third an apple with two bites on each side, and the fourth with only the
apple core. Students who don’t like apples are allowed to spit the apple bites
out in a cup.
Check out my freebie apple print lesson for an easier lesson:
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