I love helping young people express their feelings and thoughts through visual art. Right now I’m working 1-on-1 with a 9 year old boy who is especially interested in drawing. We explore lots of things, from imaginative collaborative drawing activities, to anatomy, to perspective, to facial expressions, to visual storytelling and animation. One thing I like to get him to do regularly is to draw directly from observation. This image was drawn from looking at a deer skull which he found on a hike and brought home. He was really looking at the contours as well as the areas of light and shadow and that shows up here.