Grades 3-7; Six 30-minute episodes
This is a series of drawing lessons conducted by Bakersfield Museum of Art
instructor Brent Eviston. It provides students with practical instruction in the
dynamics of drawing animals, people, three-dimensional objects, and landscapes,
while they learn about proportion, perspective, and color theory. The skills
they learn during the process will stay with them for a lifetime.
101. Basic Drawing. Instructor Brent Eviston presents a lesson on two
basic drawing techniques: using basic shapes to draw any animal from memory, and
using shapes and lines to duplicate a drawing from a picture. He encourages
students to “think like an artist” by constantly asking themselves questions
about their lines and shapes as they draw. The lesson focuses on the drawing of
animals, specifically a cat, a horse, and a sea lion.
102. Drawing Faces. This lesson helps students understand how to
successfully draw a human face. Brent begins by showing students how to draw a
basic egg shape and then sketch in guidelines that divide the shape into
sections for the placement of facial features. He provides step-by-step
instruction in the drawing of basic shapes and lines to create each feature
before explaining how to alter the features to match a particular person.
103. Color Workshop. In this program Brent presents a comprehensive
lesson on color. He discusses primary, secondary, and tertiary colors while
instructing students in how to create a color wheel, and then demonstrates the
effects of mixing colors with white, gray, and black. He concludes the lesson
with a discussion of chroma, or intensity, and describing the shades of brown
that can be created by mixing complementary colors.
104. Light and Shadow. In this program Brent presents a lesson on light
and shadow. He instructs students in drawing a cube and a cylinder, and then
shows them how to illustrate the play of light and shadow on an object to make
it appear three-dimensional. Students learn that the best shadows aren’t made
with black or gray, but with complementary colors.
105. Drawing People. This lesson shows students how to simplify the human
figure into mannequin shapes. Although more difficult to draw than the animals
and human face of previous programs, Brent shows students how the human form is
still composed of simple shapes and lines. After learning to draw a standing
figure from the front, students are instructed in how to change positions of
arms and legs, and to turn the figure to a side view. As before, Brent
encourages students to “think like an artist” by constantly asking themselves
questions about the position and shapes of their figures as they draw.
106. Perspective. This program helps students understand the role
perspective plays in drawing. Brent demonstrates two types of perspective:
atmospheric, in which students draw images freehand using size, position, and
darkness of line to give the impression of distance; and linear, in which
students use rulers to create straight lines approaching a vanishing point to
illustrate images moving toward a horizon.
