Category: Contour

adding color

1/30/2013

7th grade students worked on their modified blind contour drawings today by adding color to them with oil pastels. This is the first time I have taught this lesson this way and I think the students took great advantage of the mix-ability of the material to blend their colors and create a painterly effect.

Soon the work will be uploaded to Artsonia, but students will have to first use PhotoBooth, iPhoto, and Moodle to take, edit, and upload their work for me to publish.

8th grade students also added color to their work today by taking their section of the "Exquisite Corpse" game and adding colored pencil, crayon, or marker to it. It is always fun to see the zany drawings that result from the random add-ons that everyone takes part in by the time we are done rotating. I will be posting those to our gallery as soon as they are all turned in on Moodle, too.

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Drawing games

9/7/2012

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After students were finished putting their portfolios together, we moved onto some drawing games that got us up and moving.

7th grade students had a portrait party. They used blind contour drawing methods to observe and draw their peers. The result is very abstract and fluid. The room filled with laughter as soon as they revealed their drawings to each other and themselves.

8th grade students worked on their exquisite corpse drawings again today and selected with one they are interested in modifying.

Both groups will continue to work on the drawings Monday by adding color and more lines.

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modulating color

1/27/2011

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This is Leigha's self portrait.

Students modified their blind contour self portraits today by adding additional lines in marker and then colored in various spaces with gradients of colored pencil.

These images are big in personality and color and really express the amount of risk students are willing to take with their art.

This is a great first project to start the semester with because there is no wrong way to do it - blind contour drawings are all about seeing what you can make out of a mass of lines that often create the most abstract of compositions!

To see more examples, please visit our class gallery.

Liz includes a patchwork of color in her background.

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party on

1/26/2011

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During the first week of class, we always have a portrait party.

A portrait party is an activity I was first introduced to by artist and teacher Rama Hughes. It is a great way to start the semester with laughter and fun as students draw each other and move around the room.

Students learned about line first, doing a line - line dance and then we used blind contour drawings as our method for capturing portraits.

Sean uses his newsprint as a shield as he looks in the mirror to draw himself.

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adding color

Drawing games

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