drawing to music at Art Works

I am totally psyched to say that as of last Thursday, I have joined the family of super awesome educators at Art Works Studio School in Mt. Rainier, MD (I have written before about how much I love this place!), and I jumped right in the same day, filling in for a drawing class.

The kids had a great time drawing to music while experimenting with mark-making, using charcoal, graphite, and chalk pastels.  We talked about all the different types of marks you can make on a paper - horizontal, vertical, diagonal, narrow, wide, very wide, dark, light, dots, 'flicks', circles, dots, dotted lines, broken lines, zigzags, squiggly lines, curly qs, smudges, marks with your fingers, letters, and so on.  The music alternated between two stations on Pandora - Thievery Corporation and Mozart - and the kids paid attention to where in their bodies they were feeling the music and how it made them want to move, how it made them want to draw, whether or not it influenced what they drew.

kids in process - black & white

  

a few finished pieces

 

working larger and in color, using their bodies more

 

really getting into drawing in rhythm with the music