We draw a lot at our house. Mostly it looks like this:
And there are times when she comes home from school with things that look like this:
I was a little suspicious of the painting above, and still am. And I've found out more about the process. It's called Directed Drawing, where the class is all about producing a single piece of art, and the teacher does a live demonstration of each step. The teacher is very popular, because all the kids come away with something parents can keep.
Hannah really likes her fruit painting (I do too), and in fact kids seem to love Mrs. Johnson's classes. I think they all eventually get to a point where they want it to look like the real thing as much as possible, and they like being shown how to make that happen, or frustration sets in. We've certainly been there many times.
King Kaufman
Scott Rosenberg
Laura Miller
Kristopher Hannum
cwalsh
Richard Gingras
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Once they're uploaded, if you click on a photo you'll be able to pull them out to whatever size you'd like them at!
Upload your pic then hit the tiny "html" button on the second row of the of the edit post window.
Then replace [... width="100"... ] with [ ...width="xxx" height="yyy"... ]
(whatever you want your x&y to be )
Be-ware - your max width is 485. I played around one nite figuring that out.
So for example, I edit my image posts by adding the following :
width="485" height="165"
http://open.salon.com/user_blog.php?uid=335
The code for my latest page looks like this:
See? Not that complex.
Set your proportions accordingly. If you use Photoshop, "Save for web" does the trick nicely.
Also I've found that under Firefox the editing tools run dawg-slo.
Hope that helps.
Loved that second painting. Not crazy about Directed Drawing but I guess anything that that might spark the young'un...
We always got results like this;
http://www.artksenia.com/student.php
These photos are from the kids that come to Ksenya's private studio, ( ages 3 and up) but the results we achieved with the kids in the public schools were comparable. It's also important to give the kids high quality materials to work with. Crayons and cheap paper will always look like crayons and cheap paper.