cc cycle 2.week 4.history.the magna carta

DESIGN SKILLS TO LEARN

  • drawing elongated portraits inspired by the mannerist artist, el greco…. you will love drawing these long skinny guys with our friends, flint and grayson! this is flint’s specialty and a fun style to learn. i love how he applied his “long skinny men” style to king george and king edward III.
  • using oil pastels ….. flint and grayson made a tutorial to teach us how to apply color to our long skinny men using oil pastels. (if you don’t have oil pastels color pencils will work too)
  • making paper look aged
  • drawing old english letters
  • making a wax seal (optional)

MATERIALS: (SEE ART TOOLS IN MENU FOR DETAILS + LINKS)

  • sketchbook or two sheets of watercolor paper
  • pencil
  • beige watercolor paint
  • watercolor pencils or basic color pencils
  • wide, flat paint brush
  • two pieces of black paper cut to 5″x5″
  • white color pencil
  • oil pastels (other option: color pencils)
  • scissors
  • glue stick
  • ruler
  • black marker
  • wax seal (optional)

STEP NO.1

  • draw your scroll in pencil then trace it with a dark brown watercolor pencil (other option: basic color pencil)
  • draw and color in the “tear” marks and lines
  • get out your beige watercolor and a wide flat brush then follow the demo below
  • paint a gray shadow line under the roll and on the sides of the roll using a gray water color pencil
  • paint the ribbon black using a black watercolor pencil

STEP NO.2

  • grab your 5″ x 5″ black paper and white color pencil
  • follow flint and grayson’s tutorial to draw an el greco inspired king edward III

STEP NO.3

  • apply color to your portrait
  • grab your oil pastels (other option: basic color pencils) and follow flint and grayson’s tutorial

STEP NO.4

  • take what you’ve learned from flint and grayson’s tutorials, draw, and apply color to your own elongated king john

flint and grayson’s finished projects! grayson had a little help from her two year old sister, indie! she climbed up and added a little bit of her own art to grayson’s project…. grayson just smiled and remarked “I guess we need to add indie’s name to this page!” what a sweet sister!!!!

STEP NO.5

  • cut the sides of your portraits to make them rectangles
  • with a glue stick adhere your portraits to your painted and dried scroll
  • draw a frame around your portraits using a marker and a ruler
  • write your history sentence (note: our sketchbooks do not have the history sentence in it’s entirety)
  • try using old english letters

STEP NO.6

  • add a wax seal : king john was forced by the nobles to set his royal seal to the magna carta (another option is to draw and color a wax seal with a watercolor pencil)
  • watch the demo below on how to make a wax seal

HAVE A CREATIVE WEEK!