Stories of Home - Past and Present

Our last class! We all felt sad - and stayed late finishing up our graphic novel art pieces for the exhibition on November 6.  Ghayda' enjoyed using oil paints for the second class in a row. She seems like a pro suddenly! Merafroosh put a picture of me into her work!  Bardia turned a self portrait into a poster of his life philosophy.  Ghayda' is so pleased with how far her art has progressed in 10 weeks! Her original piece is on the right and her current portrait is on the left.  Ameer was focussed today on finishing various pieces and brought his mum to give her support!  We'll get together again in three weeks at our library show!

We're working hard to get ready for our exhibition at the Richmond Public Library. Come and meet us at the opening reception on November 6, Saturday, from 2-3:30! See you there.  Merafrooz is choosing to work in pen and ink. She finds the detail had power and suits her patient nature.  Ghayda' loves to work in colour! She tried oil paints for the first time this week.  Ameer is using his natural drawing skills to tell a story about his family. He will ink it and colour it at home... and we can't wait to see it next week!  

GETTING READY FOR OUR EXHIBITION! Ghayda' prepares a background for her self portrait.  Simin and Ameer test their stories with each other verbally in Farsi to see if they are interesting. After that they write them in English and draw them.  

There are not many new photos this week as we worked on our writing skills more than our art. But Ghayda' had a birthday that we celebrated comic book style! Bardia worked from written notes to produce four panels during our twenty minute challenge.  Mehrafrooz read her story in Farsi and then translated it into English.  Later she drew a comic about the same theme in our 20 minute challenge.  Bardia's 20 minute challenge about his first day of school in Canada. The writing was on a separate piece of paper. He won this week by finishing on time! 

We drew our families this week. What a great group of students! Such charming drawings and such lovely families. 

We started using colour this week! What a great class of students. The artwork is fabulous.  We also learned how to tell a sequential story that progresses through time. So much to learn! One of our best excercises is the 20 minute challenge where we have only 20 minutes to create a whole comic. This leads to energetic drawing and a light hearted approach. This week Mehrafrooz "won" by completing her page in time - but sadly we didn't have a prize for her. The real prize, of course, is that we each made lively and energetic comics!   

This is our third class. We worked on our self portraits and got wonderful results with pen and ink.  With 20 minutes left in the class we did a 20 minute challenge. And some amazing drawings happened!