My classes are working this week on their Spooky/Autumn Perspective Drawings. I took the opportunity to prepare this lesson as a product for my TPT store. While my students work on theirs, it will remain at an introductory discount.
I’ve enjoyed doing this project for years and I always do it a bit differently. This time, we are completing a “Dual-Scene” in which the students will create a pair of drawings depicting the same scene or location but interpreted differently. Common solutions would be, a before-and-after scene, day-vs-night, spooky-vs-nonspooky, etc. We discuss a bit the idea of economy in art. Leaving a bit to the imagination of the viewer can help make the designs more interesting or mysterious. Students are able to choose a Halloween related theme or broad Autumn theme.
I also like to change up the way I have them apply color. We usually outline in pen, sometimes black…sometimes a color. When might shade in colored pencil or do minimal shading by blending out from the lines for a “halo-effect”. I also like to purchase multiples of pale marker colors and have students do monochromatic interpretations like in the examples above. So far, we are on stage one – working with very light pencil under-drawings only.