8th grade Still-life

When life gives you a broken toaster, create a still-life.  When teaching my students about value and light sources, some students have a difficult time getting their heads to wrap around shading objects that have color.  So to start this lesson, I created an all-white still life...centering around my poor toaster.  After turning off the over-head lights and using a spot light to give more extreem lights and darks on the objects, the students got to work - after groaning a bit first, of course.  Whether they thought this was the most "lame" thing they had ever done in class or not, I think the end results were something to give a "toast" about.