Charcoal

 The Friday Smart With Art Class led by Linda Romero-Kirschner learned about drawing with charcoal.

  Charcoal drawings remain an essential skill for budding artists.

Working with charcoal serves the dual purpose of building artistic creation skills and
developing art appreciation skills.

We worked with vine charcoal and used gum erasers and blending stumps to
create a still life.

 We learned the properties of charcoal and how to work with this material.

We discovered that erasing charcoal creates light areas; smudging charcoal
creates value; and drawing lightly with charcoal creates contour lines.

  We also discussed overlapping shapes, and where it exists in a still life set up.
 Students practiced on newsprint and then did a final still life on white charcoal paper.