Here is a fun assignment, students enjoy it because they get to eat the apple. ;-) We discuss negative and positive space and how an artist can show negative and postive objects in their drawings. This was a two day assignment. Due to time constraints students worked the first day on drawing the apple whole. The following day we divided our paper into squares by folding the paper. Students then take a bite of the apple and draw what they see, using the first square. After completing the new drawing they are allowed a few more bites and will then draw the apple again in the next square. Our class periods are 50 minutes long so we have to work quickly (about 8-9 minutes per square). (The original is in color.)

Drawing by Andrew-8th grader