The First Week and a half- 7th grade

7th graders will begin the year with some work on life drawing skills. They have created a life drawing in class to act as a pre-assessment tool. In the process of creating this drawing, they also used a variety of different types of drawing pencils. We discussed their pencil discoveries, and students should now have a good understanding of why they might want to use a 4H,a 6B, or any pencil in between. They also learned to identify and use four different shading methods: blending, hatching, cross hatching, and stippling. 7th graders also received their sketchbooks and reviewed the guidelines for sketchbook assignments.