The weather was beautiful today and made for a relaxing Friday afternoon. Due to other events going on, we only had 19 young artists today. This being the smallest turn out so far, but still a great number! With all of the hard work we've done this week, we decided to take it easy and have a sketching day. The young artists had their choice of working in pencil, color pencil, chalk pastels or pens. Just to practice sketching and using the drawing materials, the youth artists worked on whatever came to mind. Jawna Williams drew a cingssiik. Cingssiiks are little people, generally with pointy heads or a hat, that live underground and can steal you away if you are not careful (see Fienup-Rirodan 1994, p. 78). Leah Mark and Nikki Teeluk worked on a Minion. Here are the two different kinds of little people :)
At the end of sketching time today, we talked a bit about what to expect for the coming week. Next Saturday (7th March) is going to be our Drawing the Past art show here in Quinhagak. The next week will be gearing up and getting our final pieces ready. Artists this weekend were supposed to think about what they would like to put into their final pieces. The theme of the final works is going to be "What was life like here 500 years ago?"
