Grade 6-12 students with their masterpieces.
 | Once again I volunteered to teach a week of art lessons at the library near our lake in northeastern Pennsylvania: four classes, each meeting for three days. Some mighty fine artwork was created there in mid July! |
| On their first day of class, students in grade 6-12 drew pumpkinseeds- a variety of sunfish that inhabits our local lakes. A combination of colored pencil and soft pastel added color to these beauties. |  Pumpkinseed, a type of sunfish. |
The older kids also created sunset pastels and paintings of water lilies during the 3 days of art class.
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Grade 3-5 students drew beautiful night owls on black paper, using colored pencil.
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Using watercolor and crayon the grade 3-5 students created these colorful lighthouses:
| Ring-tailed lemurs were the subject for this age group's third project. Their lemurs have a lot of personality!! |  |
 | The youngest students, grades K-2, painted awesome sea turtles in their first class: |
| On the second day the K-2 students drew these adorable sheep with colored pencils. |  |
  | On the last day of class the littlest students drew the Red Eft. The Red Eft is a beautiful little creature that lives in the forests in our northeast Pennsylvania lake country. As an adult it lives under water, breathing with gills. This greenish newt lays its eggs in the water; 3 or 4 months after the eggs hatch, the juvenile newts lose their gills, develop lungs, and begin their lives on land! That's when they turn bright orange, a warning to predators that they are poisonous if eaten. After 3 years the red eft returns to the water to breed and to live out the rest of its life- sometimes up to 15 years! Take a look at these lively Red Efts: |
| Usually I offer art lessons for kids only. This summer the library asked if I would teach an adult class, and I was happy to oblige. The adult students were fun to work with! I was very impressed with what they accomplished during the week, and I think they were all pleased with their masterpieces, too. |  |
 | Their first class was a lesson in "blind contour" drawing. I brought a variety of objects for them to draw and explained that they were to draw the contour (outline) of the object, and to look ONLY at the object they were drawing, NOT at the paper they were drawing on! |
Blind contour is a fun exercise in close observation. They did exceptionally well, drawing the objects repeatedly, using different colored pencils for each drawing.
On the second day of classes the adult students drew The Great Horned Owl, using black colored pencil and graphite powder.
 | A classic watercolor of a pink hibiscus was their final project. The watercolors were wonderful! I am very proud of what my new adult students accomplished in the 3 days of classes. I hope they'll all return for lessons next summer:-) |
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