Paintings by Linda Rumpf

Hi everyone! For all parents of a child with dyslexia or other undiagnosed reading issue, I bring to you a very special event! Please repost to anyone you know who has a struggling reader!

Painting leaves and flowers this week with my students. We talked about the octaval leap the plants make when they put up a flower. Flowers are really just showier leaves. Same note, but in a higher octave! We practice drawing the leaf forms from various angles, flat, curled over, etc. Then we dive into the pencil drawing of the entire composition, ink the outlines with micron pen, and paint it in! We started with elipses last week and just drawing the empty flower pot. Now, in my technique of building the skills as we go, we already know "flower pot" and how to create the light and shadow on that simple form. Having a visual vocabulary requires building knowledge of how to render different forms, so we "build" to a complete composition over a few weeks of studying the various parts. It's exciting to add the leaves and flowers now! So fun!

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Parents of Teens: Graphic Novel Workshop Poll Hi, it's Linda. Just getting a sense of how many teens out there might be interested in learning my super cool pen and wash technique for creating storyboards for graphic novels.