September 21, 2020
Art Class LIVE!
This week’s lesson: Draw what You See! (Art Class, Lesson 4)
Every Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. Eastern (3 Central, 2 Mountain, 1 Pacific), I’ll be doing a short (15-30 min.) drawing lesson here and also on See the Light’s Facebook Page. Each lesson will be based on something that Pat Knepley taught in our series Art Class, and we’ll stick to a schedule, just like a regular class. Here are the Art Class lessons that I’ll be working from for October: (These lessons are from Art Class DVD #2, Lessons 5-8)
Coming in October in Art Class LIVE:
Art Class DVD#2 (Lessons 5-8) Shape & Space
Oct 1: Shape Up (Pt. 1)
Oct 8: Shape Up (Pt. 2)
Oct 15: All About Space
Oct 22: Putting it All Together (Line, Shape, and Space)
Oct 29: Special Lesson
Today:
Art Class Lesson #4
How to draw what you see and not what you know.
You can participate in the live lesson right here on the activity page. Just scroll down to the bottom and you’ll find a countdown timer that tells you when the next lesson starts. And until it starts, you can watch last week’s lesson.
You can also watch the live lesson on our Facebook page:
facebook.com/seethelightshineart
For this week’s activity page, we have:
- Two new coloring pages (a house and a flower garden – both easy)
- Drawing Lesson: How to Draw Distant Pine Trees
- Watercolor Lesson: Watercolor Starscape.
- Chalk Art Lesson: Improvise a Desert Starscape
- Bible Story: Jesus Loves the Children
- Art Class LIVE! (Thurs. 4 p.m. Eastern) – Art Class, Lesson 4 – Draw What You See, Not What You Know!
— JIM
This Week's Drawing Lessons
The theme this week is trees, sunsets, stars and watercolor!
Our first video is a quick tip on how to draw distant pine trees.
The second video is part 1 of Watercolor Starscape. Paint a beautiful sunset/starscape with pine trees silhouetted in the background.
Have fun!
Quick Drawing Tip:
How to Draw Distant Pine Trees
It’s become popular to do little watercolors with pen and ink style pine trees silhouetted against a sunset. This week, I’ll give you a quick tip on how I draw that kind of tree. And in the video below this one, we’ll start a watercolor sunset project that has trees like that in it. Scroll down to get s
Painting with Watercolor
Watercolor Starscape, Pt. 1
SUPPLIES FOR THIS PROJECT: I deliberately kept the supply list simple and inexpensive for this project. However, if you want to use the same paint and paper I’m using here they are:
Watercolors: Yarka Semi-Moist Watercolors 8 Pan Set https://www.dickblick.com/items/00336-1029/
Paper: Arches 300 lb cold press watercolor paper https://www.dickblick.com/items/10011-1012/
Other than that, I use a 3″ flat brush, a large round, and blue painter’s tape
This Week's Bible Story
For this week we have a Bible story, Jesus Loves the Children. This was originally featured on one of our DVDs but is no longer available for sale. But you can enjoy it here. 🙂
Note: This video was featured on the original edition of our DVD, The Crossmaker. However it was removed in a later printing. But there’s still a lot of great content on The Crossmaker, so take some time to check it out if you don’t already have it.
Downloadable Coloring Pages
This week’s coloring pages are a house (easy) and a flower garden (a bit more complex, but still easy.). Have fun!
Drawing with Chalk - Part 6 Improvising a Desert Sunset
Continuing in the series on how to draw with chalk (or pastels), Jim improvises a desert sunset.
Art Class - LIVE
This week’s lesson will augment Art Class DVD 1, Lesson 3
Join our live art lesson with Jim
every Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 3 Central, 2 Mountain, and 1 Pacific time.
Next live lesson starts in:
Until the next lesson starts, you can watch last week’s lesson below.
Here’s a link to the photo I am working from in the lesson:
https://pixabay.com/photos/shoe-old-worn-close-up-leather-3628431/
If the video window is not showing up, you can find it at our Facebook Page: facebook.com/SeeTheLightShineArt
Hope you enjoyed the class! See you Oct 1st!
