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was a retired engineer and Grandmother par excellence - to her own grandchildren and all their friends. 
She also was an accomplished artist. (Click here to enter her Gallery) In memory of her mother,
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lions... monkeys,,, frogs... elephants... flowers...
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walls of Yerushalaim
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NAMES
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studies in perspective
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Drawing Letters
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קריעת ים סוף
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we travel the world
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ANNUAL MOVIE DAY
SOUNDS OF MUSIC
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magic carpet
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Rainy Days
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Music and Dance
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Upside down drawing
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beautiful faces
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Pastels
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wearable art
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work in progress
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and even more optical illusions
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more optical illusions
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optical illusions
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Upside down drawing of pictures from a shtetl - for the first two hours
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At 12pm we drew girls in a hammock and girls in a boat.
Then we drew the peacock that stands on the deck.
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Upside down drawing was the exercise of today for the first two hours
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At 10am we placed an Henri Matisse drawing upside down and then copied it into our notebooks.
We also tried this on other rather complicated drawings
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At 11am we did the same thing with some simple line drawings.
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At 12pm we drew cartoonish KeyHole people.
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At 10am we still were knitting/crocheting.
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At 11am we travelled back in Italy, to Venice, to study the palaces on the canals.
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At 12pm we drew people.
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At 10am and 11am we were learning how to knit/crochet.
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At 12pm we drew pinguins, owls, parrots, hatched chicks,
birdhouses surrounded by flowers
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At 10am we started to learn how to create "soft Art" with use of knitting needles.
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At 11am we drew the Tower of Pisa.
Called "La Torre di Pisa" in Italian, it
is circular bell tower,
183 feet high, constructed of white marble.
It began leaning shortly after construction began in 1173
because the ground beneath the tower was soft.
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At 12pm we learned to draw fruit and created a fruit bowl.
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At 10am the desire to create more PomPoms was irresistible.
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At 11am we went over many useful techniques of drawing.
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At 12pm we drew bicycles, including edible(!) bicycles,
// tomato slices for wheels, asparagus for the frame, etc.\\
prams with invisible babies,
strollers with visible babies, and
shopping carts,
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Pom Poms are back in fashion and we have jumped into action
At 10am and 11 am we were busy creating Pom Poms!!
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At 12pm we drew Madeline from the old house in Paris that was covered with vines,
We also tried our hand on the Little Bear
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Our Annual Movie Day
at 10 AM The Little Princess (1993) which is loosely based upon
the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
at 12 noon an animated film Little Bear, which is based on
the book series written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak
followed by Madeline a 1998 live-action film adaptation of the book series by Ludwig Bemelmans
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At 10am we worked on still life (nature morte in French)
starring rollerblades.
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At 11 o'clock we drew rollerblades and bicyclists and
learned the term concentric circles
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At 12pm we drew a hammock hanging between two palm trees,
with the ocean as a backdrop and
sea turtles, shells, sun dollars, and star fish on the sand
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The 10am Group designed fabulous dresses.
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The 11 o'clock Group drew footware, including rollerblades.
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The 12pm Group's horses eat, drink, run, gallop.
The sheep attempts to climb a tree.
The flamingo stands motionless.
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The 10am group dressed the fashion figures --- beautifully
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The 11 o'clock Group learned some techniques to use when drawing fashion
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The 12pm Group was busy turning
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The 10am Group learned how to draw feet and designed some footware
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The 11 o'clock Group concentrated on faces, hairdo, and real proportions of a human body
in order to get ready for
the fashion design for unreal impossible elongated bodies used in fashion industry.
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The 12pm Group enjoyed turning
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The 10am Group started working on Fashion Design.
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The 11 o'clock Group learned how to create their own impossible objects.
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The 12pm Group is busy turning
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The 10am Group has mastered drawing human hands.
We shall work on Fashion Design next week.
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The 11 o'clock Group drew more
impossible objects...
We plan on even more optical illusions for the next week.
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The 12pm Group drew lots of flowers.
We also made some amazing observations, for example, we can
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The 10am Group started drawing human hands.
We shall work on this more next week.
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The 11 o'clock Group drew
impossible objects...
we love optical illusions and plan to master more.
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The 12pm Group is learning to draw flowers
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The Advanced (10am-11am) worked on sculptures
Moshe Rabeinu and Violin Duet
The 11 o'clock (Beginners) Group drew
horses, giraffes, unicorns, ducks, birds...
The 12pm (VERY NEW Beginners) Group drew
parents pushing prams and also learned to draw ducks.
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The Advanced (10am-11am) hour was about Corps de Ballet and Hobbies
The 11 o'clock (Beginners) Group drew
two hamburger buns side by side, each with two raisins on top
one became a frog, the other - a monkey.
The 12pm (VERY NEW Beginners) Group drew
children drawing on the board
and children lighting chanukiyot
November 29th, 2015
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The Advanced Group worked on models of the Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, called "La Torre di Pisa" in Italian,
is circular bell tower, 183 feet high. It is constructed of white marble.
It began leaning shortly after construction began in 1173
because the ground beneath the tower was soft.
ballerinas, princesses (including a Spanish Infanta and an Italian Principessa), and malachim,
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November 15st, 2015
The Advanced Group is back to cartooning
here are the scenes at the airport, in a drawing class, at the tdsa siyum, in front of the ice cream shop
a head has a shape of an egg
the eyes look like almonds, and we place them in the middle of the egg
the neck must be wide and sturdy to be able to hold the head
the iris is not a complete circle, the upper part of it we do not see
unless we are drawing a surpised person
The Well Established Beginners Group
was sculpting silver people
The Advanced Group took a break from the Key Hole People
Instead we asked ourselves
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The VERY NEW Beginners Group
with tomato slices as wheels. We also drew lots of elephants Then we drew a friendly Lion
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The Well Established Beginners Group
was drawing scenes with elephants
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The Advanced Group drew a crowd of the Key Hole People
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The VERY NEW Beginners Group
We also drew a scene outside of an ice cream shop
with a bike parked in front, and a table with an umprella
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The Well Established Beginners Group
was drawing even more flowers today
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The Advanced Group was drawing the Key Hole People
to use for making cartoons
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The VERY NEW Beginners Group
first - with a red marker and after that - with a green marker, and look what we got there... | That was |
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Today the Well Established Beginners Group
was learning to draw flowers
The Advanced Group did sculpting
using an unusual mixture of unusual media:
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The Advanced Group is drawing perspective
In the Library (3D) vs. In the Store (2D)
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and here we were learning how to draw cat's eyes
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The Advanced Group is learning about perspective
Welcome, Shabbos Guests!
today we were sketching...
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 and now we draw sages in Yerushalaim (building on what we have learned so far)  | ||
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The Advanced Group is still sculpting
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 how to draw arched gates? the green moss growing between the stones? the palm trees behind the city walls? | |
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The new Advanced Group used Aluminum Foil to sculpt silver people
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 we made sure to draw only what we see we also experimented with hairy letters, with or without wind blowing |
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the cartoonish type
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1. when the "face" of the flower is not looking straight at you
the "face" is no longer round, it is an oval instead
2. to draw a danderlion, we imagine short sun rays propagating radially
3. when drawing a bouquet we are careful not to draw the shapes that we do not see
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Madeline, a 1998 film adaptation of the picture-book series by Ludwig Bemelmans
(of course, we drew Madeline afterwords)
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We also take into account the following:
an eye looks like an almond
the COMPLETE circular iris of an eye will express fear or surprise
the elbows are on the level of a waistline
the neck is wide and sturdy so it is able hold the head
hands often look as if they were in mittens
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 of Mrs. Mallard and her young'uns from Robert McCloskey's book “Make Way for Ducklings” They are in the Public Garden at Boston Common |
 and this is how we sketched ducks! |
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A lion with a baby lion on the grass or a performing lion in a circus
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to convince ourselves that human eyes are indeed rather low on a face. Deep little hats come down to eyebrows, and the face IS relatively small. We also designed the outfits for the dolls. |
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We are using the fragment of Picasso's |
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is called Crookneck Squash.
Looks more like five birds deep in conversation, This is how we draw these "birds" Line drawings of four different still life arrangements |
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 the famous bronze statues of Mrs. Mallard and her young'uns from Robert McCloskey's book “Make Way for Ducklings” Of course we were rather far from the Public Garden at Boston Common Nevertheless we easily determined that duck's body looks so much like a pear or an avocado, and this knowledge makes sketching a duck quick and easy |
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it is fun to recognize which animal it is and then to accentuate its characteristics
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so that we would be forced to draw WHAT WE SEE and not what THINK that we see |
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We are learning from the masters
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It actually is very technical stuff: |
After all, the letters of an alphabet are
And yet no one expects illiterate people
At the same time, it is somehow expected that
Our method teaches the alphabet of drawing. |
Making a mistake is fine as long as we learn from it:
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Atlanta Jewish Times
December 11,2015 | 29 Kislev 5776
