4 media monkey

4 media monkey, a photo by Steph Toth Kates on Flickr.

The assignment for this was to draw a monkey using only 4 preselected different media. I chose a pink sharpie, a green fine point sharpie, a pencil, and crimson watercolor applied with one of those chinese bamboo brushes. I hated drawing my monkey with a sharpie to start with. As you can see by the random line going through the middle of his head and that mess on his hand, I clearly needed something I could erase while I was feeling out my proportions. but I did enjoy the process of mixing the different drawing media. I like working in a lot of different media- but I rarely mix them together so this was fun.

A Bunch of Dogs

IMG_8382, a photo by Steph Toth Kates on Flickr.

Drawing Lab: 20 Dogs
We were supposed to draw the same dog 30 times. I didn't really like my dogs much, but then I tried drawing a mouse and I like that even less.
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Zoo Day 2

IMG_8432, a photo by Steph Toth Kates on Flickr.

Drawing Lab: Zoo Day 2
Went to the Nature Center instead of the zoo :) This Barn Owl was my favorite. So I drew him a lot. Found out I actually like hard pencils for sketching better than I thought. The super soft ones made me commit to a line before I was ready :)
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Zoo day

Zoo day, a photo by Steph Toth Kates on Flickr.

For Drawing Lab this week we went to the zoo to draw animals.
Sleeping meerkats - and Toby wanted to be in art club too - so he drew a monster dreaming about a robot. :)
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Gesture pets

Gesture pets, a photo by Steph Toth Kates on Flickr.

Drawing Lab: Drawing our pets in motion.
Fed the cats some cat nip, armed Toby with some string and pipe cleaners and went to work
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