Week 4: Portrait Drawing

Date: October 3, 2009

Lesson Title: Portrait Drawing-- Model: Mahatma Gandhi
Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:
In honor of Gandhi Jayanti, we'll try our hand at producing portraits using gridwork to guide our strokes, and using pen and ink drawings of Gandhiji for our model

Sources:
http://www.4to40.com/coloring_designs_patterns/index.asp?category=Coloring_Book&keywords=Gandhi

Materials needed:
Blank gridwork sheets
pen and ink printouts of Gandhi's image with gridwork superimposed
pencils
erasers
crayons as desired
background music (always better to draw with music)