Fifth and sixth grade students:
Studied radial designs and stained glass windows of the Middles Ages.
Homework:
Draw five (5) radial designs in your sketchbooks.
Here is the rosette window from the church of Notre Dame in Paris, France, which was built in 1220.
Seventh and Eighth grade students: During the last class of first quarter, they used principles of Leonardo daVinci's lessons on how to draw faces in order to create their own charcoal self-portraits.
Here is a classic portrait of a young woman by Leonardo daVinci:
