{"id":3856,"date":"2011-05-11T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverdogprints.com\/photocardblog\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:04:16","slug":"drawing-lab-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/drawing-lab-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Lab :: Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"lab_160\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lab_16011.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing Lab\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>Lab Seven was to layer color with only four choices.  The reference image is a monkey face and we pre-selected kid markers and one pastel each.  I was lucky to have pastels on hand &#8211; they were from college in the late 80s and still work!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe boys began to groan a bit after the first strokes of their markers.  They had seen the drawings in the book and were already putting themselves down about their efforts.  One of my main goals is to make them confident in what they draw,  and with a little encouragement, they enjoyed the lab and liked the finished drawings.  I did too.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe should get some proper art\/drawing tools, if we&#8217;re to continue with these labs (or at least I should.)  Using the kid markers, as compared with the pastel, felt much different both in my hand and how my brain used them.  It shows in my drawing.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe order below is the reference shot, Abe&#8217;s drawing, Eli&#8217;s, then mine.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DL-7-ref1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DL-7-ref\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3862\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DL-7-abe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DL-7-abe\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3859\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DL-7-eli1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DL-7-eli\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3860\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DL-7-me1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DL-7-me\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3861\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy friend, Angie, is having a link-up for the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Drawing-Lab-Mixed-Media-Artists-Exercises\/dp\/1592536131\" target=\"_blank\">Drawing Lab<\/a> on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angieallen.com\/2011\/05\/drawing-lab-seve\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.  She&#8217;s going to attempt weekly labs with the three generations of her family and is inviting anyone else to draw along.  Stop by to post your link with her lab or just take a look at all the participant&#8217;s drawings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lab Seven was to layer color with only four choices. The reference image is a monkey face and we pre-selected kid markers and one pastel each. I was lucky to have pastels on hand &#8211; they were from college in the late 80s and still work! The boys began to groan a bit after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing-lab","category-illustrations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}