Longest line pictures
Draw a long, varied line across the accordion fold paper.
What does your line suggest? Envision possibilities.
Add lines and shapes to express your idea!
Map
Seascape
Grade 3
If there were no lines or shapes would there be written alphabets? Find out more in –
Ox, House, Stick, The History of Our Alphabet
By Don Robb
Alphabets can be artistic, too.
Word Designs
Grade 2
During art, we looked at many different kinds of lines and patterns in the book Only One You / Nadie Como Tu by Linda Kranz before exploring the technique of RESIST with oil pastels and paint.
Then, we drew lines, shapes and patterns with oil pastels on watercolor paper. Straight lines, curvy, zig-zag, loopy, dotted, dashed…
For the RESIST technique to be successful, our challenge was to discover:
How hard or soft do you have to push when you are drawing with oil pastels?
How thick or thin do the lines have to be?
When brushing paint on top of the drawings, how thick or thin does the paint have to be?
Which color combinations stand out the most?
Grades 1, 2, 3