Daily Sketchbook 11/3

This is a mindful moment day.
Please take a seat, pushed back from your table and facing me.
If you can get your feet on the ground, please do. I will begin once your eyes are shut and the room is prepared.
When we are finished please photograph and upload WITH AN IPAD for your daily sketchbook.

Daily Sketcbhook 10/14

This is a mindful moment day.
Please take a seat, pushed back from your table and facing me.
If you can get your feet on the ground, please do. I will begin once your eyes are shut and the room is prepared.
When we are finished please photograph and upload WITH AN IPAD for your daily sketchbook.

Daily Sketchbook 9/29

Go back to two previous daily sketchbook pages. The pages/dates I want you to reference are as follows:

• 9/13 - where you wrote a list of many things you are grateful for, and
• 9/19 - where you created a wash or a pattern of watercolor

I want you to take one of the statements/comments/items from the 13th and illustrate it on top of your watercolor wash/pattern from the 19th. Work in pencil for today please.

Daily Sketchbook 9/23

This is a mindful moment day.
Please take a seat, pushed back from your table and facing me.
If you can get your feet on the ground, please do. I will begin once your eyes are shut and the room is prepared.
When we are finished please photograph and upload WITH AN IPAD for your daily sketchbook.

Daily Sketchbook 9/2

This is our first Mindful Moment of the year.
I will lead you in this.

Please sit facing me and pushed away from your desk (if applicable).
Sit straight up in your chair and with your feet on the ground (when possible).

I will start you when you are all ready.
Please get your peers ready to go so that I don't have to hold you after class for taking too long.

Cheers.

Daily Sketchbook 8/29

We are prepping for our mindfulness exercises for the year.
I have a pencil image below (with a pencil for scale) that I want you to duplicate (yes, in pencil) as closely as you can.
Don't worry about inking at this point, that will come on Wednesday.
Please pay attention to the particulars - for example, the style of lettering at the top.

If you finish "early" please make sure to upload it and quietly put the ipad away and get out your current drawing to work on.

ONLY PHOTO AND UPLOAD WITH THE IPADS PLEASE.

Smile.

Daily Sketchbook 3/11

It's a Mindful Moment kind of Friday :)

Please sit quietly (feet on the floor if possible) and face me. Push yourself away from your desk and use that good posture of yours. I'll start as soon as everyone is quiet.

Afterwards, as usual, take a photo of your Mindful Moment text and submit that for your daily sketchbook.

Daily Sketchbook 2/1

It's a Mindful Moment kind of day. I will start us once the desks are clear and the room is silent. Thank you for expediting this process.

Art 4 Daily Drawing for 3/16

Being thoughtful/mindful of your surroundings is always important, or as I have said many times:

Awareness comes in many forms but here is how I want you to apply it for your daily drawing today:

• think of an "everyday" object in your house (something that you see and/or use all the time without even considering it)
• this should be something that is "always there" but not something such as your smartphone or laptop
• it could be the funky kitchen timer you always use for making cookies or the rooster lamp your grandmother gave your dad or the alarm clock you got when you were nine and still sometimes use
• close your eyes and picture it in your head - think about it from all sides
• in the middle-ish of your page in pencil only, with your eyes still closed, begin to describe the object using words only
• is is curvy, sharp, metal, cold, shiny, rough, what kind of rough, tall, made of wood, does it have slits or holes...etc, etc
• spend no more than five minutes writing with your eyes closed
• once you have described it with as much language as possible, open your eyes and begin to draw your object in pencil only
• draw it as accurately as possible in proportion/line/shading as possible in the remaining ten minutes (or so)