Summer Preparation

For the first semester of my senior year at Joel Barlow, I'll be student teaching a drawing class along with my teacher, advisor and friend, Mr. Angelis. Over the summer I had researched a lot of possibilities for projects in the class so that me and Mr. Angelis could hit the ground running when it came to designing projects and lessons for the students. Before I had left for the summer, we had met a couple of times and he put me in charge of one of our projects, a marker project. What that entailed was creating a piece of art that uses only sharpie markers or colored markers so that it teaches students to dive right into a drawing without hesitation because that is often an artist's biggest downfall. So I looked for some images online just to get some inspiration for what I would like to do and where I'd like to take the project I got to design (pictures below.) Over the summer I pretty much just dipped my toes in the water as to what I'm getting myself into, I pretty much just spent some time exploring the techniques and materials included with the marker project.