![]() ![]() Hopefully some of these tips will help you teach contour line in new ways. Most importantly, you want students to learn and transfer this new knowledge and apply it in a variety of ways within their artwork. It’s so important to make the building blocks of your curriculum fun and interesting for students. I love to purchase the “ TwisteezWire” because it’s colorful and easy to bend. Contour Drawing: Also referred to as outline drawing, as earlier explained, contour images only show the outlines, edges, and shapes of an object, omitting the fine detail, tone, surface texture as well as color schemes. ![]() Use alternative materials to teach contour line. You can do this by using an App, such as Sketchbook Express on the iPad, or even by using laminated pieces of artwork and dry erase markers. Allow students a chance to trace the contour lines on top of a piece of art. This is a drawing exercise where your goal will be to draw the outline of a natural object not for its detail, but for its size and shape (mass and volume). Have students go on a hunt for contour lines in pieces of fine art. Looking at aboriginal bark paintings is one of my favorites, but the options are endless. Show examples of contour line in real pieces of artwork. This ‘larger than life’ demo will really stick. Provide a variety of real-life examples.įor your demonstration, bring in a large sheet of butcher paper, and have one of your students lay down as you trace his or her outline. Glue bottles and scissors are some of my favorite objects for practicing. Start with objects that are simple and familiar. This will take the pressure off and save some paper! 2. Using whiteboards, give students an an opportunity to practice. You’ll always have a few that can’t resist drawing in all the details! However, you CAN introduce observational drawing at any level, even kindergarten! Here are some of my tried and true tips to teach contour line at any age! 1. In addition, it sometimes is difficult for students to understand at first. Because the idea, drawing the outline of an object, is so simple, it can be difficult to find ways to teach it creatively. Here are both stages of my pepper plant sketch.Teaching contour line is a simple way to hone students’ observational drawing skills, preparing them for more advanced drawing activities to come. Maybe it’s because I’m too impatient to do a good job with watercolor. This may be because I love pen lines so much. At this point I almost always choose one of the two ‘shading’ options but when I’m done I often wish I’d left the sketch as the contour. Sometimes I consider the third option of leaving it just as it is – a contour drawing. Do I add a bunch of cross-hatching or do I add watercolor. When I finish with the ink contour a decision must be made. ![]() There’s considerable cross-checking between the curve I’m drawing and those I’ve already drawn, locating my position by comparing angles and distances constantly. As I draw them they become abstracts I’m no longer drawing a plant, but rather a whole bunch of curves relative to one another. I find drawing plants to be a challenge as it’s easy to get lost in the overlapping contours of the leaves. The weather was wonderful and I sat on our deck, got some sun, and communed with my pepper plant. ![]() In my last post I mentioned that I had to cancel a local sketching adventure because my knees weren’t cooperating and I suggested that I might sketch a pepper plant that I’d bought. ![]()
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