Home Assignment #1- Spring Flowers-A study of the art movement called Realism.  Draw a large Tulip, Daffodil and Daisy on 3 pieces of 8"by 10" white paper.  Remember the rule "everything is drawn from shapes",  Color your flowers with blended crayons to enable them to  look realistic.  Color the backgrounds with the opposite color on the color wheel (called Complementary Colors)  example: blue flower, orange background- yellow flower, purple background

Home Assignment #2-  A Spring Garden.This project is a study of the Impressionist artist, Claude Monet and his beautiful paintings of his gardens.  On a sheet of 8" by 10" white paper, students are to draw a wonderful landscape drawing of a spring garden, using the flowers that they drew in the previous lesson.  The flowers are grouped together one in front of each other, in a mass.  You can add trees, a birdbath, a lake, a path etc,  Remember the perspective techniques, a horizon line and big in front, small in back.  This will make your garden look realistic.  Please submit a pencil drawing for approval.  The completed drawing can be colored with blended crayon or colored pencils.

Home Assignment#3-  A Rain stick- This project is made from a paper towel roll.  It is a study of the culture of the people of the rain forests.  Draw horizontal stripes of design all around your tube in pencil.  They can be animals, birds and bugs that live in the rain forest.  You can also add geometric shapes as decoration.  submit your pencil drawing before you color.  When it is approved, color in very bright colored crayons and outline in markers.  When completed, cut out two circles the size of the ends of the tube.  Fill the tube with a few beans and glue the on the circles.  Then shake your Rain stick.

Home Assignment #4-  Fabulous Flip flops- For this project, pretend that you are a shoe designer for a large company.  Your assignment is to develop a creative design for a pair of summer flip flops.  Please enlarge the foot forms I included to fit white computer paper.  With a pencil, design your flip flops that are very decorative and creative .  Remember that you need to have two bands on the top of the forms.  Think of one theme and develop your patterns on the top and on the inside of the form.  Please send me your pencil drawings before you color.