Tag Archives: Line Drawings

Chicken 2: Juinter Hot and Cool

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Art Education

  Grade 5/6: 2nd Chicken Drawing: This Time, with Colour! Day 1. As outlined in the post ‘Chicken 1’, I gave the students an opportunity to draw a live chicken (appropriately named ‘Juinter’).  After the more detailed and time consuming … Continue reading →

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Squiggle and Draw

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Art Education

Grade 1 – 3:  An Imagination Drawing Game I have such an enthusiastic bunch in my Tuesday Art Club – they loved this one! In fact, a couple of them have been asking for us to do it again. Or … Continue reading →

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Warm & Cool Cityscapes

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 1/2:  Exploring Colour … in the City   Fall 2013 / Parliament Oak School

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Blind Contour Gets Wired

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 6:  Taking Contour Drawing Further In the class following the first blind contour drawings, we continued with drawing self portraits.  Everyone got a mirror, and with fresh instruction about drawing from close observation – out came the Sharpies again. … Continue reading →

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Our First Light Drawings

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 6:  Drawing With Light The students have been studying electricity, and had just finished some work with contour line drawing, so … We took some time to play!  I told them about artists who use long exposures, movement, and … Continue reading →

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No Peeking: We’re Doin’ Blind Contour

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 6:  Drawing Blind Contour I wish you could have seen the kids’ faces … I told them we were going to do some drawing BUT they had to do it in one continuous line (NOT lifting the pen from … Continue reading →

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3D Zentangles, Boxed

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Art Education

Grade 4/5 Altered Zentangle Drawings This was one of the first projects of the year, though I have only photographed them recently.  It was going to be like a lesson I did in a previous year, but a couple of … Continue reading →

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Exploring Cubism

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Art Education

Grade 7/8  Abstraction in Cubism Session 1: I gave the class a brief introduction to one of the most important movements in Art in the last century:  Cubism!  I talked about the idea of abstraction (isn’t all Art just that? … Continue reading →

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The NameTangle Game

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Art Education

Grade 2/3:  Doodling Around With Their Names This was great as a first Art Project for the year.  Some students were new to me, but many had done Art with me the year before.  We talked about different kinds of … Continue reading →

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More Op Art Cubes

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Art Education

Grade 7/8:  Op Art Cube Sculptures There was a distinct ‘Op Art Buzz’ going on, so I took the ideas and lesson I did for Op Art cubes with the grade 6’s at the other school, and added a pedestal … Continue reading →

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