Chalk Pastel Orca Whales
I have been having such a hard time getting my boys to agree on anything lately. They all groan and complain when I try to add some art into our days and I can not get any of them to articulate why they don't want to participate anymore. I find that if I keep making suggestions eventually I can find a project that they're willing to work on. That's what happened with our whale drawings. Once we settled on WHAT to draw, I had all the boys pick out whatever color paper they wanted and we grabbed our pencils to being drawing. We had a bit of a hard time following some on-line directions for how to draw an Orca whale when I remembered that our Draw Write Now books had a very easy to follow step by step instructional page about the whale. So I grabbed our book, opened to the page on Orca whales and we all set to work. Once we had our whales drawn we added some color to them. Our plan had been to use chalk pastels but Evan informed me that he doesn't like the sound or text...