Animals in Art students begin their quarter long class by completing a series of drawing practices together as a group. We complete these as a step-by-step practice and discussed how to break things down into shapes as they go. Our first animals we drew were a sea horse and a sea turtle. Along with our step-by-step ocean animal drawings the 8th graders worked on breaking patterns down into steps as well as creating values using a series of zentangle patterns and designs. These practices are skills that they will incorporate into our first project which will be one of their ocean animals filled with patterns.
