Art: Age 12

7 illustrated Art lessons for Age 12.

Drawing Light and Shadow When you draw a lit object, look at where the light hits it and where it turns away into shadow. Shading smoot…
Laying a Roman floor mosaic Roman craftspeople made floors by pressing tiny cubes of coloured stone into wet mortar. Together the cubes fo…
One Point Where Every Line Meets In one-point perspective, lines that go away from you all run toward a single dot on the horizon, called the v…
Sketchbook Pear Study You can record what you see by drawing it in a sketchbook. Try the same pear with outline, hatching, and soft …
Road to the Horizon Straight edges in a scene can slant toward one point on the horizon. That point and the smaller distant object…
One Pear in Three Media A ripe pear is drawn three times using graphite, charcoal and watercolour. The three sheets show how each mate…
Flipping Through Drawings A hand holds a fan of paper sheets. Each sheet shows a runner in a slightly different pose.…