Llama Drama

Found a wonderful link to a blog with amazing Llama Art click Llama Art.
Want to learn more about llamas. Click Banana Ears.

For  photo references  of Peruvian Textiles click Peruvian Textiles.

The Llama

(Le lama -Clique Le lama pour lire plus en français)

Drawing the Llama.

1.  Look closely at a photo of a llama or a real one if you get the chance.
2.  Think long ears, long face, long neck........THINK THIRDS
3.  Make little marks at the side of the paper to divide the paper in thirds.
4.  Sketch ears lightly (banana ears), then make them "a little furry".
5.  Sketch "bangs".
6.  Add hair on head.
7.  Sketch rectangular sides of face.
8.  Add chin.
9.  Big tear drop ears to edge of face.  Draw oval white spot near edges of eyes.
10. Add eyelashes.
11. Sketch a "3" shape for muzzle.
12. Darken the mouth area.
13. Add a semi-circle chin (quite wide).
14. Sketch a flattened 3 shape for nostrils.
15. Darken nostrils.
16. Extend nose.
17. Sketch in neck noticing where it begins and sketch right off the page.

Chalk Pastel on the Llama

1.  Trace the mouth, nose, chin and eyes with black sharpie.  Colour in the eyes with the sharpie but leave the white spot.

2.  Colour the llama with pastel using yellow, orange, brown and black. (if you have other shades of these colours all the better).  Keep the face light but vary the muzzle area.
3.  Blend when needed using tissue.
4.  With black pastel add texture and fur to highlight different areas.
5.  Retrace the areas that were done in sharpie with sharpie again.

Peruvian Textiles

Use bright colours-red, blue, green, yellow, purple and can use black and white as well.

With pastel choose 3 or 4 patterns to repeat.  Choose up to 4 bright colours.

Next step is to paint stripes of bright colours over the pastel patterns. 

 Choose bright colours and do a wash technique.

Grade 3 Artists Mountview School

A Llama I Saw Basking in the Sun

Tristan and the Calgary Tower

Tristan visited the Calgary Tower on a school field trip and look what he painted. 

 Grandmaman sees an incredible skyline with a mountains  in the distance.  Grandmaman sees skyscrapers with a variety of windows and differing and interesting shapes at the tops of those buildings. Grandmaman sees subtle shades of blue, yellow, red and grey.  Grandmaman sees straight lines and curved lines.  Grandmaman sees buildings behind other buildings.  Grandmaman sees The Calgary Tower as a focal point with it's "Look at me height and solid color". 

The fun part is that Tristan drew, then painted this work of art (watercolour pencil) after climbing 762 stairs with incredible speed and endurance.

Bravo Tristan!

Treehouse Fun

Hi Friends,

Look what I found. 

I found a treehouse.

I found a big treehouse.

I found a big, tall treehouse.

I found a big, tall treehouse in the forest.

I found a big, tall treehouse in the forest by a creek.

This is not Jack and Annie's treehouse.

Peanut is not in this treehouse.

This is not Jack and Annie's treehouse.

This treehouse is not in Frog Creek.

This is not Jack and Annie's treehouse.

I don't see the Amazon River.

This is not Jack and Annie's treehouse.

See you soon,

Madame Villeneuve

Les citrouilles en automne

Hawaiian Sunsets

Windmills

Ethan, Tristan and Reegan had fun painting windmills and tulips.  I think one day they would like to go to Holland and see the windmills there.   Click on the words below to see-

How to Draw a Windmill

Windy Mills
Watercolour
May 2012
Ethan

Red Windmills
Watercolour
May 2012
Reegan and Grandmaman

Windy Valley
Watercolour
May 2012
Tristan

There are windmill farms in Southern Alberta.  They take the energy from the wind and turn it into energy we can use.

Tristan had fun making a model windmill at the Telus Spark Science Center.