Middle School Still Life Drawing

Focused on a single vase

Achieving a sense of volume

Working with charcoal

Gray scales

Pencil and charcoal at this table

Gray scales

Coffe pot taking form

Beginning a unit on still life drawing, the middle school students chose objects from a simple set-up and began with rendering them with soft pencils, then charcoal, they gray scale pastels. They will work these exercises into a final pastel composition.