Crab Drawings in Contour

My drawing and Advance Drawing classes did a mini project in contour lines drawing crab and sea shells. Drawing these shells is challenging but sometimes can feel not so thrilling to students..so this time I decided to add some color and experimentation to the project by having students prepare their papers with a color wash before they started drawing.  Students experimented with all sort of wet wash techniques- drips, splatters, using tape as a resist and each created a different piece onto which to create their crab drawings. Advanced drawing students were given much bigger sheets of paper and asked to push themselves to make the scale of the shells much bigger than life.
 I was happy with how they came out and happy to introduce a little color to the contour drawing unit!