Crawley Art Room

05/11/2024

simple drawing hack that is so satisfying: graphite transfer

It has taken me way too many years to accept that tracing isn’t bad. “He traced it!” was a terrible insult in my book growing up. Now I know that tracing is just another tool. I m…

05/10/2024

My new drawing lesson is messy fun with an 'Under the Sea Chalk Pastel Silhouette' adventure.

This is a colorful and messy experience, but with clean working practices and careful observation the students can come away with a striking piece, but it’s also OK if they just have the messy art …

04/23/2024

New demo for chalk pastel silhouette. I'll be working on getting a Teachers Pay Teachers lesson up with all the accompanying files.

Walkthrough demonstration of creating an "Under the Sea" chalk pastel silhouette drawing. This is an entry level assignment from my art 1 class for leaning t...

12/15/2023

I've had many requests for the lesson on how to create an advanced lined paper illusion drawing. This is one of my favorite assignment, though it can be a tricky one. The lesson should help you get past the easy mistakes and into a convincing illusion. The full lesson and materials to support it are now up on Teachers Pay Teachers here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lined-Paper-Illusion-Drawing-30-10684988

It's good for more than just faces, pretty much the sky is the limit. If you can think it, you can plan it and render it with these same steps.

12/15/2023

My classroom demonstration for our advanced art scratchboard project. I made a run of products with this image in collaboration with the rodeo clown

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/155533758

12/13/2023

My Crawley Art Room brand launch kind got stuck in the mud of indecision but hopefully I'm about to get it unstuck.

I started creating my first TPT item so long ago now that it’s a little embarrassing. I think I was just trying too hard to pile on the bells and whistles instead of just getting a clean, sim…

12/13/2023

At long last, I have finally turned my Lined Paper Illusion Drawing 3.0 into a file on TPT!

Check it out here:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lined-Paper-Illusion-Drawing-30-10684988

This is my very first item for sale on Teachers Pay Teachers so I'd love to hear some feedback (Be nice though, I'm just now dipping my toe in this pool).

I think I stressed out about it being perfectly prepared from so long that I just never posted it. This week I went back through the files for this item and finished prepping and posting them. So again, any thoughts appreciated (price, what's included, description...)

Hopefully this will be the start of a new adventure in making TPT versions of my favorite art lessons.

05/18/2022

Metalic gold colored pencil on black mat board. 8x10.

This started as an assignment for using scraps. We do an art contest where they supply mat boards that are black on one side and white on the other. They also don’t allow metallic pencils, so I combined the scrap from the mat board and the unused pencils to create this combo image assignment. One on black and one on white with gold and/or silver colored pencils. Of course once I tested it with a small class I ordered more silver and gold pencils for the next year to do it in bigger classes.

This works well for opposites or different sides or seasons of something. At first the second image was an after thought but now I have students plan out both images (dark and light background) before they start.

05/16/2022

Metallic gold colored pencil on illustration board. Half of a set.
The assignment was to great a matched set, one on white and one on black with gold, silver or both. I also did this assignment with one black ink on white and the other scratchboard.

05/14/2022

Another advanced lined paper illusion. One of my favorite assignments to do. I love making samples of these and seeing the students reaction. The confusion is priceless.

05/11/2022

Lined paper illusion: spooky face. Colored pencil 8 x 10.5
Demonstration drawing for an advanced art assignment.

05/11/2022

Setting up social media accounts for my new "Crawley Art Room"

Twitter... Check
Linked in... updated
Wordpress... Check
Instagram... Check
...what else... snapchat??? I've never done that one.
tic tock?... don't know how many of these platforms I should try to secure my "CrawleyArtRoom" brand on.....