Waldorf School Art project

I was lucky to be invited to instruct for a few sessions at the Waldorf school near COP. I began with drawing basics, shading, value and tone and had them do realistic self portraits. The students then chose a modern artwork to study and recreate. First they draw a scaled up cartoon o sketch paper. This drawing is to be transferred to a painting support.  They lock in the charcoal transfer with thinned burnt sienna and add in the darker values.

In the next sessions the students learn colour mixing and apply colour overtop their locked in and transferred drawings.

They use a big brush and block in the largest coloured shapes keeping in mind the values.

LAKSHIMI - flower power

I added floral elements to the Lakshimi painting. First, I sketched the flowers out on paper and applied charcoal to the reverse side. Then I placed the images on the canvas and traced over the drawing thus applying the image onto the surface.

 I clear coated the charcoal transfer so that it would not smudge. Then I drew in the flower with a red sharpie marker.

Using my light table I traced a the same flower in reverse for the opposing side. I followed the same technique to apply the image, as above.

I filled in the flower with soft pink hues, the same I used on saraswati's skin.

I filled the second flower with the darker tones of the same pink scale.

Here is the painting in progress hanging on the back wall of my studio. I added a lotus petal below her, sketched and transferred in charcoal as above then outlined in red sharpie marker.

I painted in the petals  with the same pink hues used in the flowers above. I put them in loosely and allowed the bottom to remain unfinished to reveal my process.