Natalie and Harry held a series of 20 minute poses with 5 minute breaks in between.
Harry always wears the key when he reads aloud in schools. It symbolizes reading as the key to knowledge.
We discussed some quotes about drawing, for instance, Picasso's quote, "I draw like other people bite their nails".
Harry read a poem called Alone which goes like this:Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
Edgar Allan Poe
The locker reference library - drawing books we're looking at during breaks. Randy brought in Drawing Magazine with an interesting article on painterly drawings done in charcoal.
Finally, we looked at drawings from sketchbooks done outside of class during the week.
A contour drawing done in a Moleskin sketchbook.
