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Crushed Cans

Art intermediate

Crushed cans is an observational drawing project in which students can increase their rendering skills of shadows, highlights, and mid-tones in color using oil pastels. 

Students select cans and crush them "artistically"
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Can is dramatically lit, photographed, and rendered using oil pastels.
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Home made photo "seamless" background made out of a cardboard box, scrap matboard, and a leftover prom light
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  • Home
  • Drawing Challenge
  • First 15
  • Art 1
    • Hands with Text
    • Stippled Shoes
    • 5 drawings in 5 days
    • Interior Space (one point perspective)
    • Spray Paint Self Portrait
    • Monochromatic Painting
    • Color Wheel
    • Collaborative Mural
    • Cardboard Relief
    • Paper Mache Non-Traditional Hats
    • Soft Sculpture (Pizza)
    • Color Theory
    • 2 Point Perspective
    • Grading Rubrics Art 1
  • Art 2
    • How to be original 2
    • How to be Original
    • Doodle Portrait
    • Printmaking
    • Road Trip
    • Pop Art Clothespins
    • Crushed Cans
    • Palette Poetry
    • 49 Squares (Self Portrait)
    • Cubist Animals
    • Relief Woodcarving
  • Art 3
    • Eraser Drawing
    • Animal Machines
    • The Exquisite Corpse
    • Laptop Stands CNC
    • Welding
    • Plaster Carving
    • Reverse Oil Painting (self Portrait)
    • Transparent image overlay self Portrait
    • Polymer Lift
    • Styrofoam Intarsia
    • Unread Letter
  • Art 4
  • Art with 3D Technology
    • Original Sketchbooks
    • Vinyl Cutting
    • Laser Cut "Wanted" Posters
    • Laser cut Board games
    • Laser cut wearable glasses
    • CNC Rotational Stools
    • Welded Branding Irons
    • Cardboard furniture
  • AP Studio
    • 2D
    • 3D
    • Drawing
  • Exams
  • Student Art Websites
  • Contact
  • Tape Murals (videos)
  • NCAEA Self Portrait Presentation
  • Pizza Peels (for branding irons)