Kindergarten
Kindergarteners continued to explore line this week by finishing their Line Variety paintings! It was a lot of fun to watch their lines drawn in white oil pastel pop out once we applied a coat of watercolor paint. Students remembered terms such as "broken line" and "dotted line" in discussion.
First Grade
First grade also worked in watercolor, carefully applying paint around the yarn lines they glued last week in unique ways. Students enjoyed working in mixed media for this project.
Second Grade
Second grade worked on completing their Line City drawings this week. After cutting them out, students backed the buildings and their skyline on black paper. Students used a wide variety of lines and techniques in crayon!
Third Grade
Third grade learned about contour lines before tracing the contours of an object's shadow! This is much more challenging than drawing or tracing the object itself, and the resulting irregular lines are sometimes quite entertaining. Students embraced the challenge, even as shadows cast by a partner moved a bit. Students also practiced concepts of overlapping and constructing a composition, setting up shadows across the page.
Fourth Grade
Fourth grade learned about the concept of value, or how light or dark something is, and two new ways to show value: hatching and cross-hatching! In this way, a student can show value even while still drawing entirely in line. Students created traditional value scales in their sketchbooks before making "creative value scales," showing value through hatching using an object of their own choosing as their subject.
Fifth Grade
Fifth grade reviewed concepts of contour line drawing learned in 4th grade. Then, we learned the difference between organic and geometric line. Next, we reviewed our knowledge of scale drawing. Finally, we put these many concepts together and began our large scale organic contour line drawing! Students chose from leaves, feathers, sea shells and pine cones as subjects to draw using organic, or natural, lines. Next week, we will learn to vary the thickness of our lines to add emphasis.
Sixth Grade
Sixth grade learned that a still life is a composition featuring inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers. Then, we began the construction of our compositions, remembering to draw as we see, not as we think we see. For example, if you are looking at a jar from above, the line of the bottom appears curved, not straight. It is tempting to draw it as we know it looks from eye level, instead, with a straight line on the bottom. We will continue to practice this skill, which can help us to challenge what we know and observe something as it truly is.
(Note the sixth grade friend below using a viewfinder AND closing one eye to flatten what he sees -- making it 2-D, like the paper!)
Seventh Grade
Seventh grade learned a very entertaining and challenging way of capturing movement with line in the creation of their gesture drawings! Additionally, this lesson allows students to pose for a series of movements in a natural sequence. Both students and models enjoyed this activity. We learned to draw from our shoulders, not our wrists in this exercise, which should take roughly 30 seconds to complete. Students used geometric shapes and overlapping. Great work, 7th grade!
Eighth Grade
Eighth grade also did a challenging but entertaining exercise in line: blind contour drawing. The challenge in blind contour drawing is to follow the lines of a subject with your eye, while you coordinate your hand to draw -- but without ever looking at the paper. In fact, your pencil never leaves the page. This trains you truly to draw what you see. The results brought about quite a bit of good-natured laughter in the 8th grade. Thanks for having a good attitude and being willing to take on a challenge, 8th grade!
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