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10/2/2012 6 Comments

Gesture Drawings

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Throughout the first month of school, the 6th grade classes have been learning about the Element of Art LINE. Our big project using line, was creating animal zentangles in which we used many different types of lines to incorporate pattern into the drawing.  You can check them out on Artsonia here.
We've also discussed the difference between types of lines that you can draw with such as outline, contour, sketch and gesture lines.  Last Friday we spent the class period doing figure drawings.  Various students volunteered to pose throughout the period as the rest of the class drew.  Poses lasted from 30 seconds to 2 minutes.  We started to warm up by doing gesture scribble drawings and then proceeded to regular gestures. The kids always have a lot of fun doing this activity AND they get better at drawing people!
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3/21/2012 5 Comments

Animal Zentangles

Zentangles seem to be all the rage lately.  I keep seeing them pop up all over Pinterest and other art education sites. Here is just one example of Zentangle artist trading cards that I found on a Pinterest board.   I've even heard them to be "yoga for your brain", which I thought was really cool!
As my 6th grade students started up art a few months ago, I wanted to remind them about the elements of art.  I thought Zentangles would be a great way to talk about the use of line.  Rather than doing a straight up Zentangle, we first sketched living things...animals or plants for the most part...that happened to have natural patterns in them.  We then put our line and shape patterns inside the natural patterns of the living things using black Sharpie markers.  As a final touch students used colored Sharpies in either the animal or the background to give it some contrast.  They worked hard on these and are very proud of their finished work!
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