One line design.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 07:10PM I don't remember where I found the idea, but I had it in my head to do an art lesson today with the boys about drawings using only one line. (Seriously, if you know what I'm talking about, send me a link or something. I have no idea about specifics and what I'd meant to do...just had a faint memory and winged it, lol.)
So. We talked about line as an art element and I had them draw a number of pictures using only one line (not lifting their pencil). (As is to be expected, we ended up with a number of karate weapons and Star Wars vehicles, lol.) Then, because it had seemed like a cool related thing, I gave them each a length of wire and told them to make a sculpture...same principle, just one line. (Btw, I found the wire in the floral department at the Dollar Store and it worked perfectly! I'm told that getting your wire at the hardware store is another inexpensive option.)
Here's what they came up with:
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- Noah went for the obvious and made use of the principles of cursive. :)
- Micah made himself a speech bubble, lol.
- Then he went for the iMac.
- Asher, meanwhile, set to work on a grappling hook. (Yay! One of them figured out something actually three dimensional!)
- Micah's iMac became a moon or pizza...he couldn't decide which.
- Noah solved it for him by making it the Apple symbol. ;)
Meanwhile, I made a lovely tree in honor of fall:
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And then we decided we needed more wire and headed out to the Dollar Store...and now we have a small arsenal of weapons, of course. Sigh. Sometimes being the mom of boys is exasperating. But at least they enjoyed the art portion of things. :)
Reader Comments (1)
Love it! Kal Barteski does some pretty amazing line drawings: http://lovelife.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/10/blind-lines-and-continuous-learning.html