Art: Space, Gestures and Relationships

The girls are sketching their stories using new skills of showing space and gesture drawing.  They can put their people into action poses with gesture drawings using ovals to represent the shapes of body parts.  This trick allows artists to move and turn the body parts to match an action like sitting, running, hugging, etc.  They are also exploring perspective and arranging their compositions to show shallow space and deep space.  They are moving away from drawing people on one horizontal line to moving the figures into the space.  Here's an example of the improvements: