Linguae Francae

ENJOY YOUR FRUIT COMPOSITIONS!

Thanks a lot for your Still Life drawings of jars, cups, vases and glasses. They are great! We keep working on Still Life ( naturaleza muerta ). Today we'going to draw fruits and vegetables instead of pottery.  We're going to add colours to our drawings and explore different textures. Follow these steps: 1. Take some fruits and vegetables and make a composition. 2. Take a cardboard (recycle any box) and make a scetch ( boceto ) of your composition using a pencil. Draw outlines ( contorno ) of the fruits and mark the highlights ( luces ) and shadows ( sombras ). Remember that we use light colours in the areas which have most light and dark colours in the penumbra and in the projected shadow. 3.Colour the fruits combining different materials and creating different textures. You can colour your fruits: 1. - with crayons or coloured pencils. 2. - using plasticine. 3. - with coloured pieces of paper creating  mosaic texture. 4. - with seeds or pulses ( legumbres ) 5. - with any rec...

We're opening a new Art Gallery with your Still Life drawings!