With the clear enthusiastic tone of someone experienced in elementary school education, Moose Jaw’s Anne Deshaies gave a brief explanation of how to re-create, on paper, objects that don’t move.
“Well children, we’re here today to learn about still life,” she told a classroom full of Grade 1-2 students at William Grayson School on Friday.
In order to help illustrate her presentation, the classroom had various items placed throughout it for children to analyze and re-create on paper. Deshaies said key to still life art is selecting a perspective of the subject.
In order to help achieve this, she took out a small white frame and told students one can hold such an item at various angels around an art subject in order to get an idea about how it might look on paper. If one doesn’t have a small frame, Deshaies said one can make a frame out of his or her fingers.
Once one selects the perception of a still art subject, Dashaies said it’s important to decide how one might balance the object on the canvass. She said the best place to position a re-creation is slightly off centre on the canvass, because that’s where the eye naturally wants to look.
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