A UNIQUE DRAWING EXPERIENCE
Vocabulary:
draw, shapes, images, design, listen, understand, unique, identify, imagine, arrange, line, straight, curve, circle, square, triangle, color, similar, different, aware, hand, eye, sound, new
draw, shapes, images, design, listen, understand, unique, identify, imagine, arrange, line, straight, curve, circle, square, triangle, color, similar, different, aware, hand, eye, sound, new
First talk about different lines and shapes and how when we put those together we make art.
Today your art is going to look Abstract
All you have to do is follow my directions!
WHAT YOU NEED:
- white paper
- markers, colored pencils or crayons, pencil
WHAT YOU DO:
- Teacher or parent will call out directions for their students and children.
- Students will draw what they hear.
- Students should be encouraged to listen carefully to the directions.
- Students should not look at one another’s work while doing this exercise.
- Teacher can use the following directions or they can make up their own:
- Draw four straight lines from one edge of your paper to the other.
- Draw two more straight lines from one edge of you paper to the other and make the lines cross over the lines you have already drawn.
- Draw five circles – any size – anywhere on your paper.
- Draw two curved lines beginning at the edge of the paper and ending up somewhere in the middle of the paper.
- Draw two squares
- Draw a diagonal dotted line that starts at one of the corners of your paper.
- Draw three triangles that touch each other
- Fill in one triangle
- Fill in three of the five circles.
- Fill in four areas of your paper however you would like.
- Fill in one square with curved lines.
- Draw a big oval and fill it with horizontal lines
- Once the drawings are complete, students should sign their work.
- The work should be put on display in the classroom and a discussion should take place.
- Do the drawings look the same? Different? How are they similar? How are they different? Why?
- Come up with as many different sets of directions as you can. You will be amazed at the unique qualities of all of the drawings.