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Classic Still Life Drawing

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Provide your young artists with an opportunity to study the masters and their techniques to become skilled at drawing still life. They discuss and view images from artists like Degas and Michelangelo, practice drawing techniques such as parallel line shading, and then create a still life on toned paper.

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art techniques, shading, still life artwork, michelangelo, the renaissance

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Art History, charcoal drawing, degas, michelangelo, shading, still life, still life drawing, artistic techniques, Drawing, toned paper, parallel line shading, visual and performing arts
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4th - 9th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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